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fuckyeahlinkinpark:

so an online magazine/blog called The Hundreds just did an AWESOME write up about the new album, as well as Linkin Park’s mainstream success. apparently someone from the magazine got to hang out with Mike and Brad, I wonder if there will be an interview coming soon. some highlights:

Living Things debuts June 26th.  It’s by far the band’s best, most comprehensive work, surprisingly jumpstarting with LP’s familiar, heavy rap-n-roll sound of yesteryear.  The first two tracks are like old friends to Linkin Park fans and critics, reunited after the band strayed and searched and experimented with the avant-garde.  My favorite Linkin Park album was their last, A Thousand Suns, because it played like a book is read.  It was cerebral and heady, it was an emotional story that had weight.

Don’t get it twisted, Living Things doesn’t ditch that.  By the third song, you are jarringly pulled into uncharted territory.  The music grows in brooding intensity, it has an exotic flavor, tinged with modes of everything.  Linkin Park, you may know, was originally titled Hybrid Theory (as their introductory record) because their ethos was to fuse and mix the things they loved — not just music genres, but artistic elements, ethnicities, cultures.  This album hearkens back to that philosophy, it’s a sonic cornucopia: heavy bass lines and dubstep-reminiscent back beats, Chester Bennington’s otherworldly vocals screeching over punishing guitars.

Living Things is an accurate gauge of where Linkin Park sits right now at this point in their career.  Most, if not all, rock bands never make it this far, especially in this climate of sleepy Bon Iver music and crybaby rap.  Plus, this many creative personalities and egos, on the road, performing, writing together, for over a decade and a half.  Think about it, how many radio acts from the mid-’90s are still crushing it?  That’s Cool.