I have this album originally bought because I'm a fan of Linkin Park for a long time and each of their albums can call my own. Well I should not be missing the all latest. Even with "Minutes to Midnight" could be heard a style change, as certainly all have noticed, which I already thought what direction this album would. However, this album brings forth again a very unique style that most feel here rather negative and bring phrases as "commercial waste" or the like. To my mind, the more people are not master either the English language and therefore not perceive the text, or Linkin Park-'Fans' which are not open to new ideas. Linkin Park goes again with this album in a whole new direction. Often one reads this individual reviews of the various titles of this album brings. But as the function that lets a short listen into individual titles takes a rather from buying. Here this album is to undergo much less individual reviews, but to look at the total. Only when you listen to the tracks on a piece and picks out not individually gives the whole a harmonious and musically extraordinary sound. For example, titles such as "The Requiem" "The Radiance" "Empty Spaces" and "Wisdom, Justice, And Love" cut in the Player Ratings poorly, or get only no because they are not considered as music 'in the sense' , However, these titles give the overall context of the whole of enormous importance. Last but not least, a well-selected portion of a speech Martin Luther King in "Wisdom, Justice, And Love". If you listen to the album in the whole and considered, one finds also an intention of this album. And an intention, I can say, have the fewest albums. So Linkin Park singing of the historical as well as real grievances of the world. For example, the Indian influences in "When They Come For Me" for the suppression of the Indian tribes from the discovery of America, "Waiting for the End" for the fear of the people before / during unnecessary wars, "Wisdom, Justice, And Love" as (in this case the example of Martin Luther King, who proves both intelligence and knowledge and this tries to humans to deliver) example of intelligence and knowledge, "Robot Boy" for the erroneous attitude of the broad masses that they could do nothing anyway. There are many Interpretationsmöglchkeiten for the album, but I think that one needs to look at this really as a whole and should not criticize superficial. Each is left to itself, but I think this album is really to let it sink in once.
To make it short: exorbitant good good album in my eyes. Thanks to Linkin Park for good music combined with intention and meaning.
