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Linkin Park are back with their fifth studio album
‘Living Things’ an album which consists
of 12 tracks and runs for just under 36 minutes,
once again Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin took on production
duties and over the past few months Linkin Park
have spent a lot of time explaining how the album
features elements of their past four albums and
after giving it a listen you can’t help but
agree.
‘Living Things’ opens with ‘Lost
In The Echo’ a song which sounds like Linkin
Park have simply put all their music from the
past 12 years into a blender and come up with
a big mix of everything they have ever done as
the song opens with strong catchy electronic soundscapes,
whilst at the 40 second mark Mike Shinoda comes
in with his stand out rapping before Chester Bennington
comes in at just over the 1minute mark with slightly
rockier sounding vocals which enter the screamo
territory as the song progresses, the song happens
to be a perfect start to the album and one that
I can see people coming back to listen to again
and again.
‘In My Remains’ is quite an beautiful
sounding song where Chester Bennington really
goes for it with emotional vocals, lyrically the
song is one of the most personal songs that Linkin
Park have wrote with lyrics of “Come apart
Falling in the cracks Of every broken heart Digging
through the wreckage Of your disregard Sinking
down and waiting For the chance, to feel alive”
‘Burn It Down’ is the lead single
to be taken from ‘Living Things’ and
after listening to the album all the way through
you will easily understand why because it is so
different from anything else featured on the album
and it also has that radio friendly vibe running
throughout but also keeps up to the Linkin Park
standards of rap rock crossover.
‘Lies Greed Misery’ is one beastly
track that comes at you like a kick in the balls,
Mike Shinoda takes centre stage with a mad flurry
of electronic soundscapes whilst rapping over
the top and Chester Bennington comes in like he
has something he wants to get off his chest as
he vents his anger in such an aggressive way.
‘I’ll Be Gone’ has the feeling
of a future Linkin Park single, it opens up in
a mellow way and before you know it Chester Bennington’s
vocals become upbeat as he sings “When the
lights go out and we openour eyes,out there in
the silence, I'll be gone,I'll be gone”.
I feel that as the album progresses to the last
handful of tracks things become experimental and
the excitement from the first few tracks of the
album is lost as Linkin Park slip back to the
sound of their last couple of albums ‘Minutes
To Midnight’ and ‘A Thousand Suns’
but luckily tracks like ‘Victimized’
see Linkin Park go on a full on aggressive assault
like they did in their olden days and this helps
make the later part of the album bearable.
It is safe to say that ‘Living Things’
is the strongest Linkin Park album release since
‘Meteora’ but the problem it holds
is the fact that it features 6 solid sounding
tracks whilst the rest of the album has a big
filler feeling however the band have done well
incorporating the sounds from all their albums
into ‘Living Things’ and I am sure
that there are many people with the opposite view
to me who prefer the later part of the album to
the earlier.
4/5
Review by Trigger |
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Chester Bennington
Rob Bourdon
Brad Delson
Dave Farrell
Joe Hahn
Mike Shinoda |
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1. Lost In The Echo
2. In My Remains
3. Burn It Down
4. Lies Greed Misery
5. I'll Be Gone
6. Castle Of Glass
7. Victemized
8. Roads Untravelled
9. Skin To Bone
10. Until It Breaks
11. Tinfoil
12. Powerless |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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