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On 11/3/2024 at 7:53 PM, leftshoe18 said:

I'm going to a listening party about 40 minutes from my house on Saturday. Can't wait to hear new Linkin Park!!!

Tell me more, tell me more! I need to know if it’s cooler than cool?

Edited by juancpin

Bunch of date/venue changes in Europe and Asia.

 

Vietnam: O2 Space -> NOXX CITI

Germany: all dates to November 14

Milan: November 13 -> November 10

Tilburg: November 7 -> November 14

Lisbon: November 12 -> November 13

Sao Paulo is now a whole pop-up event from November 11 - November 16, with listening parties November 11 - 14, available to LPU only

Switzerland listening parties are only available through SRF3 & SRF Virus giveaways

Australia and Toronto now only lists pop-up store dates, thinking the Australia listening parties may now be giveaway-only. if anyone has more info, let me know

 

if anything else changed, let me know!

1 hour ago, Chesterchaz said:

That's meh 😑 No need for a listening party then when the album probably leaks by ~Nov 13. Wondering if the reason is to prevent an earlier leak?

I think if something leaks on the 9th Nov there will be a lot of auditions.

Just got back from the listening party and I loved the album. Overall, I got some Minutes to Midnight vibes with the way the album flows. There's a lot of heavier song, then softer song, then heavier song throughout similar to that album. There are a lot of different sounds packed into the half hour that comprises the album. It definitely feels as short as it is, and I wish it were just a little bit longer. A couple of transitional tracks like A Thousand Suns or even just one more "full song" would have gone a long way.

 

Anyway, here's the notes I took during the listening party.

 

Cut the Bridge

- staccato guitar riff, bouncy

- Mike's rapping reminds me of All for Nothing

- dreamy little prechorus

- chorus has a fun back and forth dynamic with Emily and Mike

- very catchy, was mouthing along to the words by the second chorus

- blackbear-esque bridge from Mike

- This song feels like it would be at home on Minutes to Midnight, but at the same time doesn't actually sound like any song that's actually on Minutes to Midnight.

 

Casualty

- heavy as shit, like Victimized meets Keys to the Kingdom

- Emily's screaming is awesome

- Mike kinda yells his verse, reminded me of something between Year Zero era Trent Reznor and Rage Against the Machine

- raw sounding verses

- bridge reminds me of Figure.09, Mike raps and Emily screams with him, scratching

- "It's only a matter of time"

- This might just be the heaviest song Linkin Park has ever released. Wow!

 

Overflow

- intro has synth stabs, crushed drums, and an echoey, chopped vocal

- very unique sound in the LP catalog, kind of like Fine mixed with Lift Off but very much its own thing

- Emily has dreamy, soft vocals that get harsher as the song progresses

- "white sky to a black hole/sunlight to a shadow"

- This song feels like if Fine was a Linkin Park song in the same way that Heavy is the Crown kind of feels like Already Over if that makes sense.

 

Two-Faced

- was that Stick N Move in the intro?

- more metal riffing (hell yeah!)

- "counting to zero"

- Mike's raps have a Hybrid Theory album vibe to them (got By Myself and Hit the Floor vibes from the song)

- Emily with a big chorus and frantic outro vocals

- breakdown feels like old school Linkin Park with scratching

- This song feels the most like an early Linkin Park song since Meteora - even more-so than Heavy is the Crown.

 

Stained

- Mike's vocals remind me of PT (no song in particular, but that vibe)

- heavy hip-hop type beat

- poppy chorus vocal melody, reminds me of something Rihanna would do

- "You try to hide the mark but it won't fade"

- This song feels very different from the rest of the album. It's easily the poppiest song and, with some production differences, wouldn't sound out of place on One More Light.

- The ending of this song cut off at our listening party due to some technical issue and the person running it went to the next track.

 

IGYEIH

- "I give you everything I have"

- Emily screams the intro

- more heavy guitars and scratching

- mixture of Emily singing and Mike/Emily rap/sung back and forth ala Lost

- "Forgotten doesn't mean that it's forgiven this time"

- very aggressive chorus vocals

- more old school breakdowns, similar vibe to Given Up instrumentally

- "FROM NOW ON I DON'T NEED YOU"

- ends like Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit with Emily yelling over and over 

 

Good Things Go

- verses are Mike and Emily singing to start and then Mike raps

- clean, ballady guitar - closest thing in the LP catalog would be maybe Primo

- more dreamy vocals that get aggressive later

- "sometimes bad things take the place where good things go"

- big, explosive end to the song (and album)

- Mike's bridge reminds me of A Line In the Sand

- This song joins Linkin Park's list of closing songs that don't really feel like closing songs along with Pushing Me Away, Numb, Powerless, and Sharp Edges.

From Zero Notes

Initial notes/thoughts with adding later

 

 

From Zero Intro  

choir gang vocals em asking “from zero? Like from nothing?”  (very short)

 

TEM

 

Cut The Bridge.  

Record rewind sound starts then it gets very Alt rock sounding. BIO type riff glitchy like, opening. Nice rap flow from Mike. BIO party vibes. Very LP MTM sounding. Emily sounds great. Mike sing/rap in bridge (dare I say hint of RHCP?) “cut it down cut it down down cut it cut it down” chant to close the song out 

 

HITC

OEO

 

Casualty.   

Omg heavy af. Heaviest LP song. Mike is very aggressive, not screaming but as if he sings with grittiness and hard, he sounds good af we need more of him like this. HTF+Victimized+KTTK+White Noise….Drums are fast af in the chorus. Scratching but it isn’t Joe…it’s MR HAHN!! He is back. Em reminds me of Chester as she builds it up for the bridge, very quiet like but shaky/frantic before she bursts back into screams for a very Slipknot like bridge 

 

 

 

Overflow.   

Very nice smooth stabbing synth, Ambient noises. Mike sing/rap with Em harmonizing. Sounds soooo good. Chill vibes. Takes you to outer space. Em sings soft. Gives me “It Goes Through” MALL vibes meets ATS. Could make love to it (Deftones like) 🤣 Em gets aggressive towards the end and the song is very Deftones in the bridge/outro

 

 

 

Two Faced.   

Fuse plays in the intro with a tape changing sound and then…MR HAHN again! Nu metal af but a little more raw and hint of grunge. Mike’s flow is sick af. Similar to figure 09 but different if that makes sense. Meteora slapped me in the face and said “remember me Mother F*cker?!” Raw THP vibes as well 

 

 

 

Stained. 
Mike sing/rap heavy synth. Emily singing over nice chord progression. Most diff since Overflow. Feels catchy. Feels good. Could hear on radio. Could be a crossover hit. Mike and em back and forth in bridge 

 

 

 

IGYEIH.

Mr Hahn is still here killing it!  Em starts screaming. It’s Heavy. Nu metal vibes are back. Em starts singing then Mike raps. Back and forth. Chorus is so good, it’s as if they continued with the OG sound after Meteora and MTM never happened. Harmonizing is beautiful. Bridge hits “from now on I don’t need you” same as opening riff. Em sounds like Kurt cobain screaming towards the end 

 

 

 

Good Things Go.  

Mike singing then Em, more back and forth. Mike rap/sings again and Em sings beautifully. Good closer. Slower song. Post T vibes in bridge. Very good flow. Final Masquerade vibes I feel as the song gets louder and then a sudden end

 

Overall this is a great album. A perfect comeback from LP. Looking around and seeing the 30+ reactions, everyone loved it, surprised by how good it is. It was over quick. I got chills and smiled A LOT. Favorites for me are Overflow, Casualty and Stained. Standouts are the whole album! Every song had a wow moment! 

Edited by DylHDZ
Casualty chorus reminds me of White Noise so added that to description
1 hour ago, leftshoe18 said:

Just got back from the listening party and I loved the album. Overall, I got some Minutes to Midnight vibes with the way the album flows. There's a lot of heavier song, then softer song, then heavier song throughout similar to that album. There are a lot of different sounds packed into the half hour that comprises the album. It definitely feels as short as it is, and I wish it were just a little bit longer. A couple of transitional tracks like A Thousand Suns or even just one more "full song" would have gone a long way.

 

Anyway, here's the notes I took during the listening party.

 

Cut the Bridge

- staccato guitar riff, bouncy

- Mike's rapping reminds me of All for Nothing

- dreamy little prechorus

- chorus has a fun back and forth dynamic with Emily and Mike

- very catchy, was mouthing along to the words by the second chorus

- blackbear-esque bridge from Mike

- This song feels like it would be at home on Minutes to Midnight, but at the same time doesn't actually sound like any song that's actually on Minutes to Midnight.

 

Casualty

- heavy as shit, like Victimized meets Keys to the Kingdom

- Emily's screaming is awesome

- Mike kinda yells his verse, reminded me of something between Year Zero era Trent Reznor and Rage Against the Machine

- raw sounding verses

- bridge reminds me of Figure.09, Mike raps and Emily screams with him, scratching

- "It's only a matter of time"

- This might just be the heaviest song Linkin Park has ever released. Wow!

 

Overflow

- intro has synth stabs, crushed drums, and an echoey, chopped vocal

- very unique sound in the LP catalog, kind of like Fine mixed with Lift Off but very much its own thing

- Emily has dreamy, soft vocals that get harsher as the song progresses

- "white sky to a black hole/sunlight to a shadow"

- This song feels like if Fine was a Linkin Park song in the same way that Heavy is the Crown kind of feels like Already Over if that makes sense.

 

Two-Faced

- was that Stick N Move in the intro?

- more metal riffing (hell yeah!)

- "counting to zero"

- Mike's raps have a Hybrid Theory album vibe to them (got By Myself and Hit the Floor vibes from the song)

- Emily with a big chorus and frantic outro vocals

- breakdown feels like old school Linkin Park with scratching

- This song feels the most like an early Linkin Park song since Meteora - even more-so than Heavy is the Crown.

 

Stained

- Mike's vocals remind me of PT (no song in particular, but that vibe)

- heavy hip-hop type beat

- poppy chorus vocal melody, reminds me of something Rihanna would do

- "You try to hide the mark but it won't fade"

- This song feels very different from the rest of the album. It's easily the poppiest song and, with some production differences, wouldn't sound out of place on One More Light.

- The ending of this song cut off at our listening party due to some technical issue and the person running it went to the next track.

 

IGYEIH

- "I give you everything I have"

- Emily screams the intro

- more heavy guitars and scratching

- mixture of Emily singing and Mike/Emily rap/sung back and forth ala Lost

- "Forgotten doesn't mean that it's forgiven this time"

- very aggressive chorus vocals

- more old school breakdowns, similar vibe to Given Up instrumentally

- "FROM NOW ON I DON'T NEED YOU"

- ends like Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit with Emily yelling over and over 

 

Good Things Go

- verses are Mike and Emily singing to start and then Mike raps

- clean, ballady guitar - closest thing in the LP catalog would be maybe Primo

- more dreamy vocals that get aggressive later

- "sometimes bad things take the place where good things go"

- big, explosive end to the song (and album)

- Mike's bridge reminds me of A Line In the Sand

- This song joins Linkin Park's list of closing songs that don't really feel like closing songs along with Pushing Me Away, Numb, Powerless, and Sharp Edges.

I don't think I can verbalize my thoughts better than what you have, a lot of overlap to what I would've said 

 

 

We're so fucking back

Cut The Bridge - I'm really surprised that this is the 2nd full song on the album and not something like Two Faced which is gonna appeal to the masses. It's definitely fun, stylized to sound raw like BIO or War. I had fun listening to it but I feel like it'll have to grow on me a bit compared to some others that I already love

 

Casualty - I love it, definitely very KTTK-esque. It's the heaviest on the album but not the heaviest LP song for me - KTTK, FTI bridge, Rebellion bridge and other moments feel heavier. But still a contender for top 10 heaviest for sure. I think Mike's delivery being different was a little overblown. Yeah he's doing something rather unique, but he's far from screaming, and the FX on his voice are doing a lot of work. I do feel like the chorus is eerily similar to KTTK and the word casually being in both doesn't help. 

 

Overflow - Based on the descriptions I really wanted to love this, but it was kinda boring on the first listen :( That said, I do think it's unique, and I like that it's long. It could grow on me a lot, but for now I can't remember any melody or cool sounds from it. Way overblown how "experimental" it is from some other reviews imo. 

 

Two Faced - WOW! This sounds like Mike worked on M20 and was like "let's make another song like this". Like HITC, instantly catchy and very nu metal. I wouldn't say it's OSC part two necessarily, that literally belongs to Figure 09 and imo also Don't Stay, but it definitely fits the HT/M era. They'd be insane to not make this a single or promo it with some game/movie or something 

 

Stained - My least favorite, but also something that brings variety to the album which I appreciate. There are moments in the outro where I feel like I'm listening to an alternative Kelly Clarkson-type radio single, which is not what I'd expect from this album but is pretty cool. Kinda a mix between MTM and OML. I wouldn't be surprised if a OML collaborator influenced this one as well. 
 

IGYEIH - A banger! Idk what to say about this that hasn't already been said

 

Good Things Go - Probably my favorite, I LOVE that chorus. For me, this one was super undersold. This feels like the best of what they learned during OML. The melodies are dynamic, the lyrics feel super heart-felt, the soundscape feels grand...this is Sorry For Now 2.0 for me, which is my favorite track off OML. Emily and Mike's harmonizing here is the best use of 2 vocalists on the album for me. If you like OML and OEO, you'll LOVE this track

4 hours ago, YRQRM0 said:

Cut The Bridge - I'm really surprised that this is the 2nd full song on the album and not something like Two Faced which is gonna appeal to the masses. It's definitely fun, stylized to sound raw like BIO or War. I had fun listening to it but I feel like it'll have to grow on me a bit compared to some others that I already love

 

Casualty - I love it, definitely very KTTK-esque. It's the heaviest on the album but not the heaviest LP song for me - KTTK, FTI bridge, Rebellion bridge and other moments feel heavier. But still a contender for top 10 heaviest for sure. I think Mike's delivery being different was a little overblown. Yeah he's doing something rather unique, but he's far from screaming, and the FX on his voice are doing a lot of work. I do feel like the chorus is eerily similar to KTTK and the word casually being in both doesn't help. 

 

Overflow - Based on the descriptions I really wanted to love this, but it was kinda boring on the first listen :( That said, I do think it's unique, and I like that it's long. It could grow on me a lot, but for now I can't remember any melody or cool sounds from it. Way overblown how "experimental" it is from some other reviews imo. 

 

Two Faced - WOW! This sounds like Mike worked on M20 and was like "let's make another song like this". Like HITC, instantly catchy and very nu metal. I wouldn't say it's OSC part two necessarily, that literally belongs to Figure 09 and imo also Don't Stay, but it definitely fits the HT/M era. They'd be insane to not make this a single or promo it with some game/movie or something 

 

Stained - My least favorite, but also something that brings variety to the album which I appreciate. There are moments in the outro where I feel like I'm listening to an alternative Kelly Clarkson-type radio single, which is not what I'd expect from this album but is pretty cool. Kinda a mix between MTM and OML. I wouldn't be surprised if a OML collaborator influenced this one as well. 
 

IGYEIH - A banger! Idk what to say about this that hasn't already been said

 

Good Things Go - Probably my favorite, I LOVE that chorus. For me, this one was super undersold. This feels like the best of what they learned during OML. The melodies are dynamic, the lyrics feel super heart-felt, the soundscape feels grand...this is Sorry For Now 2.0 for me, which is my favorite track off OML. Emily and Mike's harmonizing here is the best use of 2 vocalists on the album for me. If you like OML and OEO, you'll LOVE this track

I wouldn’t say Overflow is super experimental, I think for me it’s just more in terms of they haven’t ever made a song that sounds like this. Kind of like when Heavy came out, it wasn’t experimental really it was just they never had made a pop song like that up to that point. However that’s not to downplay the song, I think it’s a very unique song and I love it! But yeah two faces was a banger!! Honestly I got the vibes from majority of these songs that they could all fit somewhere in a movie lol they just have those moments. So ready to hear it all again!

Saturday was awesome! Couple of us showed up, maybe 15 of us and just vibed. We all kind of kept talking through the songs mentioning different LP eras we heard. Normally talking over something I REALLY wanted to hear would get on my nerves, but enjoyed being around a group of LP fans just soaking it in. I hope they do this for future albums, the staff at our event we're super hyped with us. The owner didn't even really like LP, but said our energy was making their day haha and they actually enjoyed the playthrough. One thing that was cool is that the store was still open to everyone and people just stopping in kind of stayed just to listen. Got a lot of "Who is this?" and in turn had a "woah, what?" When we all said Linkin Park.

My listening party really enjoyed Casualty, Two Faced, and Good Things Go. All of the album was a hit, but I can just really remember the group reacting to those songs the most. Really excited to hear the album on Friday! So happy to have the band back making music.

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