Four years after they come back with Meteora Linkin Park Minutes To Midnight album annunciatissimo the turning point.
result of a meticulous and long fourteen months, the band's new album California stands for innovation, taste for experimentation and the search for a sound more mature and full of contamination. Abandoned by almost all schema nu-metal or metal-pop, in which Linkin Park have so far been labeled Minute To Midnight presents twelve tracks of rock-metal softer than expected with wide melodic fragments of hip hop and many ballads, and will share that will amaze the old supporters of the band.
After an instrumental incipit given to Wake, the album progresses through songs very strong, recalling the origins of Linkin Park, alternated with sugary ballad moments and undeniably pop, from aggressive and metallic Givin it Up apre l’album sotto i migliori auspici con la bella combinazione dura di chitarra e batteria, si passa così alla prima incrinatura, quella Leave Out All The Rest troppo simile alle orecchiabili hit da teen-band con un vocalist davvero fuori ruolo, fino ad arrivare a brani leggeri e assai poco convincenti come le pop In Pieces e Shadow Of The Day seppure quest’ultima sia inframmezzata da qualche lodevole accenno di elettronica.
Non mancano tuttavia in Minutes To Midnight, momenti di assoluta qualità che elevano le sorti dell’intero lavoro, dall’energica Bleed It Out (possibile singolo estivo), che combina splendidamente il rappato di Mike Shinoda e le urla straziate di Chester Bennington con un brioso background vocals and rhythmic clapping, the powerful No More Sorrow with his relentless and pounding drums and a chorus that explodes in angry tirades and enthralling.
And again, succeeded in trials with Hands Held Hight half that catapults in a church that leaves something perplexing, and six minutes of the last track, the acoustic The Little Things Give You Away "that closes the album rumors chasing around shouting and choruses deliberately suggestive but rather boring.
And again, succeeded in trials with Hands Held Hight half that catapults in a church that leaves something perplexing, and six minutes of the last track, the acoustic The Little Things Give You Away "that closes the album rumors chasing around shouting and choruses deliberately suggestive but rather boring.
An album of transition to a maturity not yet fully achieved, nuanced and descriptive feelings of aggression traveling to sweetness, from anger to love, photographed in painful and passionate lyrics. Appreciable as a whole, excluding some painful fall, and admirable for the evolution of desire and the courage to decide that probably took place in a direction anti-commercial.
We see Linkin Park live during the European tour that just started will stop in Italy, Heineken Jammin 'Festival in Venice on June 15.
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