After visiting this page for four years almost daily i thought this ocasion should be good enough to register
The album really was a pleasant surprise
, I wasn't expecting this. IMO the problem of ATS was, that it sounded to simmilar to the stuff you can hear day in day out in the radio, which made the music a bit boring.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's really cool that they try out new stuff (we don't need another billy talent...), but ATS didn't have the 'bam! Linkin Park!'-moments for me. I'm writing this to get it in contrast, what they did better on Living Things. There is the musical Progress which they made with ATS, but most importantly there are again these Linkin Park recognition moments, which made Linkin Park so special for me in the first place.
I wont review every Track here, but just write my thoughts about a few:
Lost in the Echos: What an opening! Nice old school Meteora/Hybrid Theory lyrics, very deep. The beginning reminded me a bit of Enter Shikary, like it. (9/10)
Lies Greet Misery: A song which is clearly made to be played live. Even if you don't like it yet, wait till you hear it live before you make up your mind. Loved this song at the Rock am Ring show. (6/10 on the album, 9.5/10 live!)
Castle of Glass: Just love it. Love the vocals, this is perfection. (10/10)
Victimized: Bam! What a cracker. Good old Straight Linkin Park with great ATS-like rapping. (9/10)
Roads Untravelled: Another example of mikes and chesters great harmony. Would love to listen to this live. Another song with really great lyrics. (9.5/10)
Until it Breaks: Well there we go, the song, which really makes it hard to decide about if it is good or not. Reminds me of "nobody's listening" which also seemed a bit out of place on Meteora (but still a great song!!), but i think this is another song to wait till it was performed live. (6/10, yet...)
Powerless: Nice lyrics, nice work on the keys from Mike... but the drums spoil the party a bit. (7/10)
