New Linkin Park album in mid-2012, from Mike's interview @ Sundance 2012 Options

[Nikita]

From HitFix exclusive interview @ Sundance 2012:
Linkin Park is about to announce 2012 tour dates, and Shinoda says fans can expect the active rock band's fifth full-length album "mid-year." LP's last LP was 2010's critically praised "A Thousand Suns."
There's also a video of this interview (link below).

Source.


Mike talking about tour dates and new album at 4:05

This post has been edited by Nikita: Jan 25 2012, 03:49 PM

[Ducko]

hahahah the pop music thing is funny , but sadly its somehow true .. the last album there were like 4 "harder" songs?

There is so much wrong with this I could... oh, it's not worth it.

I think people are maybe misinterpreting Mr Trapanese's comments about Mike/Linkin Park being "pop" music. He's contrasting his experience of working in the film industry to Mike's experience working in the popular/contemporary/modern-day music industry. He uses the term "pop" in a generic sense, as an umbrella term for modern music, where the focus on records/singles/radio differs entirely from his work of scoring music for motion pictures. I think he could have said this regardless of what pop/rock/punk/metal/hip hop/dance artist was sat next to him, simply to refer to the industry they work in. In a generic sense, Linkin Park music is "pop" (popular/modern) music. Beethoven, for example - not so much.

Hit the nail on the head.
Just like to point out that my earlier statement was sarcasm, in case the capital letters and excessive punctuation didn't tip anyone off.

Can't wait to hear what this album sounds like. More so than perhaps any other artist (alongside Muse, perhaps), I genuinely have no idea what each LP record will sound like, and that's really, really exciting. I don't see how people could prefer bands to just churn out the same old thing over and over, where's the excitement in that?