If LP continue down a heavy path for their next album, I really hope they do more alternative songs like MTG. It's not my favourite song on the album, but it's definitely one of the most interesting. An album full of songs with unusual song structures/flow, where you can't predict what'll happen next would be really epic, regardless of whether it's heavy/soft/electronic/acoustic/polka.
LP needs to get out of the mindset of writing songs(formulaic stuff) and instead focus on creating interesting sounds and audible landscapes. I love a good vocal melody accompanied with piano as much as everybody else, but not every track on a record needs to follow the idea of there being a "core song underneath all the noise". Instead use these moments of clarity as small breaks between the chaos and exploration(ALA When They Come For Me and The Catalyst).
I think that it's the "core songs" that actually need work. The band have mastered making interesting sounds, but those sounds aren't much when the same-old songwriting approaches are used.
I'm with you on this one. I know lyrically it may not be the strongest, but it became a bit of an anthem for me in some ways this past year. I love its sound, though.
It's a good album . I don't really care about "angsty" lyrics or whatever. I still slightly prefer Hybrid Theory, but ETR and BTH are some of my favourite songs by the band.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153630851636788&set=vb.8210451787&type=2&theater Shinoda and friends putting on some MJ and The Weeknd while procrastinating
OH MY GOD GUYS DID YOU HEAR THE NEW SONG DID YOU HEAR IT? ITS FUCKING DUBSTEP THIS ALBUM IS GONNA BE WORSE THAN LIVING THINGS AND THAT WAS A DUBSTEP ALBUM I hope we get more videos like this. It was entertaining to me.