Linkin Park - Living Things (2012)

Reviewing the history of the blog I have seen it's been almost two years since I made the review of "A Thousand Suns" by Linkin Park. I remember that time cost me a lot to write that article, the shift in the trajectory of this training was so radical that I was a good effort to try to find the right words to define what that Linkin Park had become in ten long years. Today, of that debut entitled "Hybrid Theory" return to the fray with "Living Things", an album that from the beginning was appointed as a new cardinal point in the trail marked by Californians.
In an interview with Kerrang! Bennington said that this record was going into "familiar territory". That meant a step back to the roots of the group and the truth is that after listening to repeatedly, you have to agree. If by "A Thousand Suns" Linkin Park went on a tangent to the experimental point in his long career, with "Living Things" have managed to offset the ups and downs of the compact through the communion between ciberrockero spirit of yesteryear with the base e they demonstrated in the past two years. Here we see a more restrained LP, but in turn more accurate and with a tighter range of songs and varied. Much of the blame lies Shinoda / Rick Rubin, a coalition that has been behind the last three full-length releases.
There are songs for everyone. The most ardent fans of Linkin Park and again honor the frenzy of 'Burn It Down', 'I'll Be Gone' and 'In My Remains', in my opinion the best piece rock that have carved the Agoura Hills from that 'What I've Done' which went on sale in the first step in changing the last Linkin Park ("Minutes To Midnight"). From this we find a song a hair lack of pace ('Until It Breaks') but also two tracks that seem to work with a pleasantly melodic point similar ('untraveled Roads', 'Skin To Bone'), a piece that has a pop forcefulness very much reminiscent of the last record of modernohardcoretas Sleigh Bells ('Greed Lies Misery') and the surprise of the LP: a brief but intense 'Victimized' which is the definitive punk twist the group began to make his own way in the late 90's.
"A Thousand Suns" endorsement at the time the attempt to get to the end of their creativity. With "Living Things", despite losing a hair of freshness, have managed to create a compact where practically all the pieces are fun and cohesion. Linkin Park's intention has always been to enjoy fast rhythms and visceral and this LP definitely have succeeded. Let yourself of stereotypes and preconceptions and enjoy this record as best they deserve. Never be the "Hybrid Theory" and that, just that it is the best thing that could happen to Linkin Park right now. Where Is The Limit? (Where is the line?)