This one is a bit different. It takes a while to fall in love but once you have fallen in love, you’d find out that the strength of this album, like the other albums is the fact that each of the songs is totally unique, arrangement-wise, vocal-wise and instrument-wise. It took me three rounds to fall in love and when I took time to really look at the lyrics and sing together, that’s when I realized that this one took a while to fall in love.
My favorite for the moment is the current hit single : What I’ve Done. Love Chester’s voice, love the piano. Then I love Chester low tone in In Pieces. The bridge’ guitar was fantastic, a bit 60s-ish turning to soft to medium rock but mellowy. Surprisingly, me, being and always being the Chester Benington’s girl, had fallen in love with Mike’s rough-but-smooth low vocals in In Between. This song is unlike other of Mike’s. I love Shadow Of The Day’s bass and when the violin hits towards before the bridge, it was awesome, almost like the climax of the album if any album would have a climax. I love the acoustic guitar (remind me of the kampong boys’ guitar kapok) in The Little Things Give You Away. They finished the song after coming back visiting New Orlean’s left over of Katrina’s.
The emotions carried through the whole album were very much different from the previous albums. Very little anger but a lot more frustration, pain and disappointment.
The album cover was a bit dull, I guess, but each of the pages are just like the songs, unique, different, but in harmony with each other. Lovely. Seemed that LP wanted to remind me a lesson long forgotten, never judge a book by its cover i.e. never judge our music by our cd cover.
With this, I pledged to remain as Linkin Park’s girl for quite a while.
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