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LINKIN PARK - Minutes To Midnight
| Static Multimedia | | Eerie digitally generated tones fill my headphones as a rising wall of noise hits me full on. Thus begins Minutes To Midnight, the latest from Grammy-winning rock group Linkin Park. The album kicks off with the hard rocking "Given Up" the band hails as a "coming out for Chester," as it's the first of the bands catalog to contain profanity. The band seems excited that this album bears a "Parental Advisory Sticker"; to them it seems to be some form of street cred. Does this new-found adulthood bring with it musical maturity?...full text |
| | AbsolutePunk | | First off, let me just say that Linkin Park has been my favorite band since I was about 10 years old, perhaps even younger. The band has impacted my life and my music tastes for close to 7 years now and I was excited at the chance to hear a new album. Minutes to Midnight, the band's third full length studio album, features Linkin Park in their most untraditional form. If you were a casual fan from the Hybrid Theory era and decided you want to check out the new album..you may be surprised at what you hear....full text |
| | Guardian | | Linkin Park consider their third album to be such a departure from their nu-metal core values that the CD booklet explains each track's conception. For example, the pop-metal moanfest What I've Done "is intended to work on many levels, including freedom, art and death metaphors", which shows the breadth of their ambition. But even with rock's Mr Fix-It, Rick Rubin, on production detail, and a willingness to try random new things, the California rap-rockers are stymied by their decision to stay roughly within the shrieky boundaries of their genre (albeit with less emphasis on the rap)....full text |
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