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The California rap-rockers are stymied by their decision to stay roughly within the shrieky boundaries of their genre (albeit with less emphasis on the rap).
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Amid the stabs at growth, every new effect sounds borrowed.
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As you might imagine, the band’s emo makeover doesn’t always go smoothly.
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These half-arsed stabs at nu-AOR end up pleasing no one, least of all the band itself.
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BillboardLinkin Park's ambitions are nearly palpable, but songs likely conceived as homages end up sounding too close to their sources. [26 May 2007]
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While more than half the album flounders and meanders uselessly to arrive at roughly four truly worthwhile numbers, parts of Minutes to Midnight set the foundations for a whole new array of sounds that the band can and hopefully will pursue in the future.
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We've heard a lot of this despair before.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 494 out of 733
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Mixed: 107 out of 733
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Negative: 132 out of 733
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Jan 10, 2012
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Jul 25, 2018
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Apr 11, 2012