Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight

I’ve been listening to the latest efforts of Linkin Park entitled Minutes to Midnight and after the first listen I like some of it. One of my favorite tracks on the album is “Bleed it out” it has quite a bit of energy and really had my running on the treadmill at the gym. There are some super soft tracks and some uber hardcore tracks both of which were fine to be on the album but it got me a bit confused at times. Another track I enjoyed is Shadow of the Day, which is a soft track but has some good emotional value in there. Sometimes an album tells a story, sometimes it just a collection of random tracks and othertimes they are well thought out and placed in an exact order so the sound flows. Personally I think this album is a bunch of random tracks not really telling a story. This is fine but it confuses me when you go from hard track to soft track with little transition, the majority of the tracks tend to be softer than harder. *shrug*

I give the album 3 out of 5 stars, some of the tracks are good and others seem to just been added in there as filler. This album defiantly isn’t Hybrid Theory and Meteora, which is ok, bands are allowed to mix it up a bit they’ve done so in the past with great success. I just can’t see this album pleasing a majority of LP fans which shows by the reviews on various websites such as amazon.

I think after a few more listens my rating may go to 3.5 out of 5. I think I may end up listening to the back catalog a bit before reevaluating the 3 out of 5 rating.