Linkin Park's "The Catalyst" review!

Like I said on my side tab for the new linkin park album that I am super psyched for, I would probably go nuts when i heard the new single from the album "The Catalyst". Well i've heard it a few times now and here's what I think about it...

Its very different from anything they have done in their past albums. Which isn't a bad thing. Its always a good thing when a band start's experimenting around with new sounds and new styles. It reminds me of the remix album they did for "Hybrid Theory" which was called "ReAnimation". I love that cd, it was fused with all the awesome energy that the original songs had and smashed more hard hitting electronica beats.

While "The Catalyst" isn't linkin parks hardest song, actually its more between the lines of shadow of the day and what i've done. It is pretty much all beat based. There is a little bit of electric guitar and drums going on. But they are probably the quietest they have ever been in a linkin park song. Vocally tho it has both mike and chester singing at the top of there lungs, while the chorus does have a rapping feel to it mike definatly brings it out more, but still he is singing, hitting some pretty awesome notes too.

Also Linkin Park decided to go the way a lot of artists are going with the whole autotune/auto tone thing. Which I will be perfectly honest kind of made me a little uneasy the first time I heard it, because I am sick and tired of it. Seriously EVERY rap song has to use that somehow now and its getting very boring very quick for me at least, but apparently not for everyone else lol. But the second and third times I heard the song I definatly started to grow to like how Linkin Park used it. Its more electronic than what everyone else is doing, which fits LP very well.

But lets hope they don't get too excessive with it. But I do like it, Somehow it add's something new everytime you listen to it. Like I said, when a band like linkin park start's to experiment around it is always a good thing, I can't wait to see what the harder songs are gonna sound like, and the more mellow songs.

So with having all that said, Idk how I should review music, I am sure I could go into deep detail about every aspect and give a score for each part, like I do with games. But I'm not well versed with the technical side of music, I recognize it and appriciate it. I just don't know what its called or anything. So let's give this a try

Final Score: 8.5

p.s. I know most of you that know me are saying "WHAT john giving a LP song that low of a score!?" (LP is my fav. band of all time) But its just one of those songs that I'm not instantly amazed and hooked like a drug to at first. That's how "shadow of the day" was for me, I actually didn't like it the first few times I listened to it. But now its one of my fav. LP songs ever. I bet that's how "The Catalyst" will be.