Musing

Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns It's easy to listen to this album all the way through without realizing that it has finished. This is both good and bad - good, because the flow of the songs is pretty smooth; bad, because it's hard to think back on the last 45 minutes and pick out your favorite tracks. Like Rob Thomas's cradlesong last year, I've already decided that this would be a much better album if I re-tracked it myself. "Overindulgence in the political spectrum" and "too many short, instrumental tracks" seems to have taken the focus away from writing songs that truly stand out for more than strong words. Album highlight: There's a breakdown in "Iridescent" that did manage to give me chills the first time I heard it. Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure's all you've known. Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go.