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Over Each Other is such a tight track, very cool to hear the bones of it. It’s such a vocally driven song, and yet the instrumental is so fun to listen to and that big side chained synth in HITC is something I never really noticed or appreciated, very cool

I haven't caught it in the shows yet but I really enjoyed that little lick at 1:31 in Stained, idk if it's even him but that kind of bass is so rare in LP's discography it immediately jumped out at me:

Yeah I can't believe I didn't hear this before, very cool also didn't hear the layers in cut the bridge, there's really a ton there also I have to admit that Mike is going way harder in Casualty than I thought, the effects are helping but there's some real grit coming from his performance too, pretty awesome stuff

Im surprised I haven’t seen anyone make “The Emptiness Machine if Rob wrote on drums”. To my ear it’s the only one that really feels different

Honestly any song they've never played live will be neat to have, and I'd personally love to hear SFN at the concerts I attend But more than anything I want more unique live arrangements. I love LOATR right now, but crave some interesting stuff like the Blackout/Papercut mashup or Wastelands/Runaway. I don't think we've really heard any major unique arrangements involving anything from OML or FZ yet for example, bring on an extended outro to Two Faced or IGYEIH that has me wanting to listen to live versions more than the studio ones Maybe play a melody from OML over an extended outro, do a verse from MTV somewhere, etc. These bits have always been my favorite and I loved the crazy arrangements 2014-17 and want more of that, less of unaltered studio songs

And now we know that Pointillism is So Far Away

Just uploaded it to YT, it's cool to hear so much crowd noise I feel like those drone shots are gonna get really old in the theater for the whole concert lol, hopefully they're not overused

FINALLY! I hope this makes it on streaming at some point next year, if not right now to coincide with December Really looking forward to that and the current arrangements of WFTE and LOATR

Is this a second touch up? Because I thought the first touch up happened over a month ago, unless I'm just thinking of the standalone performance videos?

I really hope this leads to us getting My December, LOATR, WFTE and the other songs with unique arrangements right now on streaming. That's what I care the most about when it comes to live releases - capturing the differences

I'm not sure I would call the sound in cut the bridge a scratch, it's more like a reverse sound effect than him actually performing on the table (I'd guess) I wouldn't call the Stained ones scratching either, but they could be. Hard to say without hearing a version of the sound with less effects on it

I wonder if they even have that much stuff for stuff like Emptiness Machine, seems like half the tracks were Mike demos that Emily came into later and spent some time working on before they'd have "Linkin Park production" on it

I also thought it was interesting that felt rushed and that it was called Villain at some point The other cool trivia for me was the HITC scream being the first take

Well a demo is a demo, I don't think it's so bad to revisit sounds that never actually made it compared to actual songs Also I feel they have free reign to do whatever with the "From Zero" mentality The video is so fun, easily my favorite of the new cycle and one of their best in general. So simple and really tows the line of taking the song not too seriously while still embracing the nu metal cool of it. Joe's scratching shots and Emily's moves made it

It's surreal to see Brad in the videos lol So fun, this was made to play at my local emo night, I hope it's huge

We've got 3 titles from the podcast, how finished they are is up for debate but I'd bet if Emily was mentioning them in that context they were kinda far along at least, especially since it seems like a lot of what she did was singing over pretty fleshed out stuff

I assume that new song is Two Faced if it's a single

I feel like the attitude has changed a lot in a year though, and to me there's a big difference between them making any visuals for an anniversary compared to original visuals for a new album. For the small press moments for M20, they can pay lip service to "experimenting" with AI for some visuals on old songs. For FZ, they're gonna want a "hand-crafted" attitude for something as important as their true comeback, especially in an environment where people are pretty tired of AI being used in places it "shouldn't" and concerns about it taking artist's jobs, which I'd argue is a more dominant narrative today than it was a year ago Plus, with them cooking all this at the time of M20, who could blame them for any shortcomings of that art. I'm honestly shocked we got that, Papercuts and AO while FZ was being cooked

Yeah I feel like it's a no-brainer to have it as a single for that reason. I'd love for some movie to adopt it or something so it gets huge, they need their "Running Up That Hill" moment

Yeah it's from TEM, cool the it's isolated though. I wonder if they've already cooked up some demo tracks for an LPU disc or if they just exported some stuff or videos like these The glass being practical is super cool, it makes total sense that their attitude in the age of AI would be to stand up practical effects everywhere they can

That moment is the best part of the song for me, kinda makes me wish there was another soft acoustic song with those kinds of vocals throughout. I'm sure there's a demo of that nature somewhere Also, I just realized "It's only a matter of time" is something Mike and marketing was using pre-September 5th and it's a lyric of Casualty. Neat I also like "Counting to zero" as a lyric tying to the album title, I just wish the intro track had a different title

Austin is on the list, so they'll be there. Wouldn't surprise me if they hit Houston too, or came back at some point for a festival.

I think it's got a bit more involved instrumentation than anything on PT, but I totally get what you mean with the Mike vocals. Still though, I think that isn't saying anything bad. I mean Ghosts would be in the top 3 OML songs for me if it was on that album, PT has great stuff and Emily being on this takes it to the next level. Mike's "rap turns into singing" is at its best on this track, and that's something we really haven't gotten on an LP song before so I think it's great. The lyrics are also beautiful. Maybe I appreciate it more knowing it's all the way from 2019. I think it's cool when Mike has a demo around for years because he sees the potential in it. All this time not talking about it because it deserved more than a one-off release like AO

IMO it's too soon to talk about ranking but if I had to, this is pretty much it. The fact that GTG and Casualty are on the same album is awesome, Two Faced is a true throwback like HITC but more interesting and probably has more staying power. HITC is great but just lacks anything interesting for me besides the long scream. The last chorus really needed something to make it pop IMO I feel similarly about CTB, Stained, and Overflow easily being the bottom 3, though idk the order exactly. And I feel like Stained might grow on me over time