Linkin Park’s new album, Minutes to Midnight, is set to hit stores on Tuesday, May 15th. After their last album, Meteora, failed to live up to expectations from the hit band, one could only hope that Minutes brings us back to the “good” Linkin Park. Does it succeed?
Well…not entirely. I must say that I anticipated this album too much. That’s not me saying that its not good, but, at the same time, its not as good as it could be. The band definitely has a “new sound,” and there is a lot less of the rap-style rock in this album. That’s a plus, seeing as how I felt Meteora had too much.
I feel like I’ve heard a lot of this stuff though–from a band called Fort Minor, which also features frontman Mike Shinoda. Especially those rap-based songs feel like they came from Fort Minor. That’s not necessarily a bad thing–Fort Minor, despite being a rap-based group, isn’t all that bad. But, at the same time, I have heard some of this stuff before. Its pretty much the same concept as Fort Minor.
There are a couple really good tracks on this album. Their single right now, What I’ve Done, is easily my favorite track on the album. It also features tracks such as Leave out All The Rest, Shadow of the Day, Valentine’s Day, and In Pieces are among my other favorites on the album. Naturally, one would expect me to say that is because those are the more rockin’ tunes on this one. And that’s all true. I feel that these tracks are the ones that represent this “new sound” that LP has in this album.
There’s also one track on this one that I just can’t stand–Hands Held High. The lyrics are great, but the way it was presented was not good at all–I really wish they would have taken a different direction with that song, in particular.
All in all, this album really isn’t that bad–but it could have been much better. I give Linkin Park’s Minutes to Midnight a 7.5/10.
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Great post. I’m really looking forward to buying the album.
I´m agree with you, but I really like Hands Held High. The problem with this song is that it doesn´t sound like LP, maybe is more a Fort MInor-style song.
My favourites: “Bleed it out” and “No more sorrow”