'Runaway' from Hybrid Theory for me is their best song. :wub: Best single being 'Papercut'.

Linkin park i awesome

Linkin park i awesome

 

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Hoping they release some snippets soon, I mean we're getting closed to the release date and we don't even have a music video for the first single yet. I wanna be able to hear snippets of everything so I can decide if I wanna buy it or not, regretted my decision of buying the Limited Edition CD+Dvd version of their last album..

 

Heard it on Radio 1 a while ago. It's short but sweet!

 

(the video might be gone soon)

Edited May 24, 201213 yr by FM11

Apparently the whole thing is 37 minutes for 12 tracks so can expect a couple more songs that clock in at well under three minutes. It's good, but will sound a lot better in high quality with a bit of bass.

Official video:

 

 

Nothing spectacular but it does its job, doing quite well in the US currently.

"Lies Greed Misery" is apparently the second single, although given the album drops in a fortnight I'm assuming it's not going to be "released" until afterwards. Doesn't appear to be on US iTunes yet.

 

Lyric video, so better quality:

 

 

These two tracks, while not quite up there with their best, are getting me really psyched for the album. Y U NO LEAK?!

Album being streamed by Rock Sound now! clicky

 

"Lost In The Echo" sounds good.

Good album. I like that it's more accessible than 'A Thousand Suns' (which is not a bad album, don't get me wrong). I can now believe when Chester stated they have returned to their more familiar territory or something.

Edited June 25, 201213 yr by FM11

Listened a few times, the first half is rather excellent and I can see the second growing on me. It's basically the template of "Hybrid Theory" - concise, radio-friendly, showing off all the band members - through the prism of the last two albums although "A Thousand Suns" is more of an influence than "Minutes to Midnight".

 

I think I'll probably end up preferring it to ATS and "Meteora", it's lacking one or two absolute killer singles (think In The End and What I've Done) to get anywhere near "Hybrid Theory" or "Minutes" though.

Another tl;dr review, taken me two and a half months to make my mind up on the album and yet it still reads like a portentous version of what I said above in release week.

 

A few months ago (wow, this year really has gone quickly) I posted a shortish review of “Burn It Down”, the first single from Linkin Park’s new album A Thousand Suns. I then conveniently forgot to review the album when it came out.

 

This is an intriguing effort from LP for a few reasons, one being that it was billed by the band as a partial return to their roots which drew influence from each of their four previous albums. 2007’s Minutes to Midnight was largely seen as the baby of singer Chester Bennington, given that MC and co-producer Mike Shinoda was notable for rapping on only two songs and the album didn’t sound dissimilar to that of Bennington’s side project Dead By Sunrise. Texture-based follow-up A Thousand Suns was then largely interpreted as a Shinoda project where he took far more of the limelight and actually sang just as much as he rapped.

 

This arguably makes Living Things the first studio album by the band since 2003’s Meteora that can be seen as a truly democratic record and an accurate reflection of the band’s state as a whole. It certainly explains why it suffers from one of that album’s flaws - LP seem far more comfortable sitting in one groove than either of their frontmen do when they are given creative control. As a result a good chunk of the album doesn’t have the capacity to surprise in the same way its predecessors did.

 

What gives it the edge over Meteora is that it sounds not quite like either album that came before it. Meteora’s safeness was frustrating since its default setting was virtually identical to that of predecessor Hybrid Theory. The first half of Living Things may not shock but it does deliver on the band’s promise to draw from all elements of their history, a far more impressive feat a dozen years after your debut than it is when you do it with your sophomore effort.

 

The other killer card the album has is that all of these supposedly predictable first five songs hit a sweet spot and sound fantastic. Whether they’re rolling through a knotty electronic pulse on “Lost In The Echo”, storming over a surge of processed guitar on “In My Remains” or “Burn It Down”, throwing rhymes together on top of dubsteppy beats on “Lies Greed Misery” or getting tangled in power ballad territory on “I’ll Be Gone” they do so with ease and confidence befitting a band well into its second decade together. It all sounds supremely clear and coherent, although by the time track six starts the listener is ready for some of the experimentation that characterised A Thousand Suns.

 

The second half of the album delivers on that front, with some of the sonic deviation of its predecessor clipped and shoehorned into more accessible sub-four minute chunks as it were being filtered through their early work. “Victimised” takes something of a left turn by recalling the incendiary punkish rage of Minutes to Midnight’s “Given Up”, before collapsing into expansive ballad “Roads Untraveled” after little over a hundred seconds.

 

Disappointingly, while the band is striding into new territory it struggles to retain the engaging nature of those safer tracks. This shouldn’t be surprising since A Thousand Suns’ major downfall was its lack of quality control but at least with that album it felt like it was a price worth paying - here some of the missteps, such as Shinoda’s unconvincing ragga-tinged rhymes on “Until It Breaks”, are almost direct retreads of things that didn’t work last time either.

 

Ultimately the strength of the album’s opening salvo rescues it. Meteora and A Thousand Suns stand pound-for-pound as the band’s two weakest efforts and Living Things neatly corrects the major flaw of each - the former’s conservatism and the latter’s slapdash risk-taking - by experimenting and consolidating in equal measure. As a result it plays out as the sound of a band tentatively trying to rewrite its own history while at the same time nudging gently forwards with the times, and it’s apparent that a lot of the time LP aren’t quite sure which of the elements of their sound they are best off revisiting.

 

Because of this the album isn’t able to stand alongside Hybrid Theory and Minutes to Midnight as a high watermark for LP but it is a satisfying listen all the same. While it is some way off feeling like anything resembling a definitive statement, if the band delivers on its promise to release a new album every eighteen months that’s not much of an issue.

 

15/20

good album :w00t:

The new album, as for me a lot of electronics, the old songs I like better, although there are a couple of hits

I love "Burn It Down'. Its music has something epic!!! I think that it would sound great to an underground club..I missed these days.."Lost In The Echo" is good too. Their album hasn't the same sales that they had in the past but they still sell many albums in comparison with other bands..

This album has some good tracks but it still doesn't quite live up to A Thousand Suns which I loved!