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He held back tears in the second chorus. It was really heartfelt, it hurt to see him sad.

Holy shit, the mixing in TTM is atrocious.

I like Sorry For Now, and Mike hits astounding new highs at the end of the song (during the "understand" and "around"), and I've grown accustomed to the Chainsmokers-esque breakdown in the middle of the song but it still feels really disruptive with the flow. The demo also has that very LP-soul all previous albums have but this version sounds quite overproduced. I really appreciate it and think it's the best song in the entire album but was much more looking forward to the previous incarnation to be featured instead. Sharp Edges is a HUGE surprise, Chester has an entirely different way of singing here and the fast-paced acoustic guitar is a style they have never done before. I love it. Halfway Right and Nobody Can Save Me are somewhat good tracks, HR more than NCSM, but don't truly feature a good melody like all of their other songs, I feel as if they don't accomplish their objective. On the other hand, in HR Chester uses lyrics in a way seldom seen by them, by describing the atmosphere and what he was actually doing instead of feelings or emotions. That stood out to me. For me, the best songs are undoubtedly Sorry For Now, Sharp Edges and Invisible. If I were to rate the album, I'd give it a 6/10.

If anything this is the record they took the LONGEST to make for such little output, not rushed at all like LT was for example. LP needs to hire a good producer again and stop fucking around with these writers.

I fucking love this song. It's catchy as fuck and I love the way Mike sings.

I went. I also went to 2010 and 2012, and 2010 rocked my fucking socks off like never before. I think The Catalyst opening the set just doesn't work. It has no energy whatsoever, and I don't know if it was because I had already got accustomed to the sound of the speakers because I arrived at the festival early, but it didn't sound as "epic" as it should. Other gripes: The setlist didn't flow for SHIT this time, it never picked up any energy like it did the previous times and certain songs dragged as hell. No one sang Battle Symphony, and people only sang Heavy because Chester asked us to. Good things about the show: Chester was on point, but seeing as it's the first show of the tour it's to be expected that his voice wasn't worn down. I fucking LOVED Talking To Myself, even sang the little bits that we already knew. What a great track. All in all, if I had to rank the three shows, it's still 2010-2012-2017.

This video is atrociously bad. Exploding heads, lol... I haven't cringed this much since the absolute garbage that the GATS video was.

I'm going. The only songs I'm looking forward to from OML are Sorry For Now, Invisible and Talking To Myself, so hopefully they'll play some of that.

It's cool that they've rehearsed stripped down songs. Maybe they'll play a few in the tour.

These lyrics are shit people, let's face it. "Lyrics first" and the best they decide on is that chorus? I could've written that in 15 seconds. I need to hear the other 7 songs, they all sound quite better judging by the descriptions, both in terms of lyrics and what we've already heard from them.

Epic as fuck

That is a great set of songs. Was Chester on form?

But it's weird because when he was told in an interview while promoting Heavy he should collaborate with him he let out a big fat "meh"

RIP Lincoln Park, you will be missed

I'M GOING TO PRETEND THIS IS THE STUDIO VERSION WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO???

Chance of Rain is quite similar in structure and just blows this the FUCK out of the water. I like it, everything LP does grows on me, always. I can truly see in this one how the melodies (and maybe words) came first, the instrumental sounds so uninspired and tacked on. I'm looking forward to the other tracks, especially Sorry For Now, but this is not something I want to actually put on repeat.

I'VE BEEN TALKING TO MYSELF AND I KNOW I KNOW FUCKING AWESOME

lol'd at Kiiara just picking her nails apart completely bored as fuck

I fucking loved it the first time I heard it back in August.

Too true. Mike was going to 100% make this album back in 2013. I don't know what flipped a switch in him one day but after the LT era this is the music Mike's been truly envisioning. It's absurd.

Setlist?

Only ten fucking tracks? We saw literally dozens of demos on the blackboards, lol. Kiiara is the highlight of Heavy. Chester sounds overproduced like hell during the first verse instead of his usual raw style, and the song starts way too abruptly. I still like it A LOT, but certain things don't click. Also, "Good Goodbye", lmfao

I tuink it sounds a lot like Complimentary, which is stuff Mike can make in 5 minutes. I still love it AND the way Chester sings.

I don't hear a second guy (which should be Chester) but the guy singing definitely sounds like Mike and if that were the song then HOT DAMN Actually, I think he's just talking and at some point actually says Chester lol

'Member the #LP2016 hashtag? I 'member.