This will be the first album to not have an instrumental track. I'm expecting 12 full songs with vocals and I will be surprised otherwise.
I say 3. That's cause Chester and Mike can't choose to see which one of them will do it. Either that or they couldn't convince Phi or Joe to sing the song. *shrugs*
Judging from the first three albums having eleven vocal tracks and one instrumental, and that Living Things will have twelve tracks, I'm willing to bet there'll be at least one instrumental. Who knows, though, a few of them might actually be interludes for other songs if Living Things goes the ATS route, but not as many as ATS had.
I'd be gutted if there isn't at least one instrumental track. Although I'd automatically forgive them if one song is over 6mins. Otherwise twelve 3-4 min songs sound really uninspiring to me. No matter how much energy the songs have, they need to step outside the box with at least one track
Same here actually. I just get the feeling that since they were gunning for a "firecracker high energy fun to play live" album, a random instrumental wouldn't make sense. Not that there can't be high energy instrumentals, but still. Plus, it would be such a caricature of their old selves to just stick an instrumental right before the last song. Shamelessly so.
I have a feeling, Tinfoil will be an instrumental, Living Things follows the same format at Hybrid Theory and Meteora. The instrumental came right before the last full-length song. From Hybrid Theory, Cure For The Itch was before Pushing Me Away, and on Meteora, Session was before Numb. That's my theory
I expect Tinfoil to be an instrumental track, being the penultimate track (a la hybrid theory/meteora)
If Tinfoil is an instrumental I hope it lives up to its name and consist of tinfoil being bashed and crumpled. It'll be interesting nonetheless to see what it will sound like and if it lives up to its interpretation.