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Entertainment WeeklyJun 16, 2014Radio bait "Until It's gone" feels limp, but the itchy noise engulfing the bracing "War" and the adenoidal clawing of "Keys To The Kingdom" prove the band still has swagger. [20 Jun 2014, p.64]
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Q MagazineJul 2, 2014Excitingly, War's chaotic punk and the frantic Guilty All The Same are as raw as they've ever been, but The Hunting Party is the sound of Linkin Park coming in from the cold. [Aug 2014, p.109]
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Jun 16, 2014The result of all these change-ups is an album that is both aggressive and progressive, while still maintaining Linkin Park’s innate pop sensibility.
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Jun 23, 2014All of this makes for an interesting listen, even if the record can tend to drag on a little bit toward the end.
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Jun 19, 2014It's not high art, and it won't land them on any year-end best-of lists, but it will sell a load of copies, and it's just the thing for your next lousy day.
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Jun 16, 2014Make no mistake--this is the record that Linkin Park know they should have made seven years ago.
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Jun 16, 2014Far from sounding as if they're grasping at straws, Linkin Park seem rejuvenated, proving there is value in the cliché of returning to roots.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014Straining a little too hard for intellectual depth and emotional intensity, The Hunting Party is ultimately let down by its lack of focus and poor quality control. [Summer 2014, p.93]
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Jun 16, 2014Linkin Park certainly know their audience, and here delicately navigate the gulf between their own aspirations and a fanbase who will celebrate the band's loud return to rocking hard.
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Jun 16, 2014It might not kill the Mumford and Butler clones, but The Hunting Party is an energetic effort at least.
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Jul 2, 2014All in all, The Hunting Party is a solid record on its own, but it feels too repetitive, uninspired, and generic to equal its immediate predecessors.
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Jun 17, 2014On Album Six they're back with a retro-neo-aggro sound that would've been too intense for modern-rock radio in 1999.
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Jun 19, 2014The Hunting Party is the sound of a band with long-term tenure trying to find its place in modern rock, but its experiments seem more like an attempt to fling every trend from the past decade at the wall to see what might constitute a new direction.
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Jun 16, 2014Linkin Park’s The Hunting Party is a difficult, painful, rarely rewarding album.
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Jun 16, 2014It screams often, confused, like the mess that it is.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 291 out of 362
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Mixed: 39 out of 362
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Negative: 32 out of 362
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