It’s a solid track electronic beats and edgy hip hop in the verses with an aggressive chorus ‘I wanna see you choke on your lies, swallow up your greed, suffer all alone in your misery’. Lies Greed Misery comes bursting through afterwards. The third track and first single Burn It Down is next, and as I stated earlier, I wasn’t a huge fan of the song. In My Remains is quick to follow, which is a good track an electronic track with big Minutes to Midnight sounding guitars and vocals. This song sets the tone for Living Things and it’s a very strong album opener. I thought it would be similar to Blackout, a very toned down and somewhat powerless scream however with the pounding guitars in the background, it works perfectly. The use of screams and electronic mixing is used very well here.
Luckily I was wrong the screams burst out after the second chorus which instantly gives power to the song. At first, I thought Lost in the Echo would repeat this, and the song wouldn’t be taken anywhere interesting or more energetic. In my opinion, Burn It Down was a fairly average song the song never really went anywhere. Mike raps on the verse with aggression, reminiscent of A Place for my Head, and Chester’s clean vocals sweep the chorus in a very Minutes to Midnight-esque fashion. The band has managed to capture the raw energy from Hybrid Theory whilst adding in fresh high energy electronic elements. Lost in the Echo, the album opener is one of the strongest songs on the record. Tracks that stand out majorly for me are Lost in the Echo, Castle of Glass, Victimized and Until it Breaks. It contains features on at least one song that will appeal to a Linkin Park fan, old or new. If they hadn’t have released Hybrid Theory or A Thousand Suns, then there would be no Living Things. Living Things is a truly unique album, and somewhat of a summary of what Linkin Park is capable of. Living Things combines musical elements from all of the bands previous albums from the aggressive drop C guitars to the more recent electronic aspects of songs.
However don’t dismiss ‘Living Things’ as another disappointing release, because it isn’t. The short answer to that question is no, they haven’t gone back to their roots. After this somewhat risky release, followers of the band were left wondering if Linkin Park had changed their sound for good, or if they were to return to the gritty nu-metal sound which gave the band their place in the industry. Some fans were fond of the new sound however some, including me, were disappointed with the drastic change in direction for the band.
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2010 saw the release of Linkin Park’s fourth full length studio album, the experimental, multi-concept album A Thousand Suns.
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