Minutes To Midnight [PA] [Digipak] by Linkin Park (CD, May-2007, Warner Bros. Records Record Label)

I had the privaledge of listening to the new Linkin Park album (Minutes To Midnight) today, one day before it's release, and it was amazing! Being the super dedicated Linkin Park fan I am, I am very critical of their new music. The album is composed of 12 tracks totaling 43 minutes. The current track Linkin Park and the radio stations are choosing to play is their track titled "What I've Done". This is a huge teaser to what the full album is like. A few super chart topping sleepers are also hiding on this album. You can tell the band decided to create an even more unique sound on top of their already unique music type. A lot of passion has gone into this album and you can tell so with the track titled "Hands Held High". Mike Shinoda, who started a side project of his own titled (Fort Minor) pumped out the song "Whered you go". This new track by him on Minutes To Midnight has his own style put into it ala-Fort Minor. In this track he hits every bar with every thought and feeling you have of your own in music form. As a matter of fact i believe a little bit of everyone can relate to the lyrics in these songs on this album. Despite what most critics are saying about this album "Linkin Park soften up for this album to gain a more mainstream audience", this is far from the truth. Yes there are soft tracks with meaning and emotion in this album. However for each one of those tracks they have one hardcore song to match is ala-hybrid theory. This album offers a mixture soft and slammin.

My Predictions:

Track 5: Shadow Of The Day (pop stations)
Track 7: Hands Held High (hip hop/rap stations)
Track 2: Given Up (hard rock stations)
Track 11: In Pieces (alternative stations)

If that right there does not show the variety of music they have on this album I dont know what will. Overall, this album is their best album yet, hands down!
It hits stores tommorrow 5/15/07. Buy it, i guarentee you will not be dissapointed.

Track Listing:

1.Wake
2.Given Up
3.Leave Out All The Rest
4.Bleed It Out
5.Shadow Of The Day
6.What I’ve Done
7.Hands Held High
8.No More Sorrow
9.Valentine’s Day
10.In Between
11.In Pieces
12.The Little Things Give You Away

Teaser Lyrics From "Shadow Of The Day"

"I close both locks below the window.
I close both blinds and turn away.
Sometimes solutions aren’t so simple.
Sometimes goodbye’s the only way.

And the sun will set for you,
The sun will set for you.
And the shadow of the day,
Will embrace the world in gray,
And the sun will set for you."