ANIMATRONIC

With You, Runaway, Papercut, By Myself, Points Of Authority, High Voltage, Crawling, Pushing Me Away, And One, In The End ,A Place For My Head, Forgotten, One Step Closer

Love ‘em or leave ‘em, the metal/rap hybrid bands are still with us; the thuggish likes of Limp Bizkit, despite a general decline at the box office and on the album charts, still have their legions of followers. Linkin Park is no doubt destined for obscurity one day, but for now remains incredibly popular, and its telling that the band has “graduated” from the crappy home-burned CDR boot biz to the major leagues of silver-silver discs. This is a good  recording taken from a German radio broadcast – clean sound, excellent stereo separation, although the mix itself has a degree of compression that is initially off-putting. But the performance is lively, the band still in the midst of heavy promotion for its hit 2000 album Hybrid Theory, and if you’re a fan of the band you won’t be disappointed.

Nice full-color 4-page booklet plus color 2-sided tray panel and a picture CD for the packaging. Not completely sure about the label name, so by default I’m going with LPA as that’s what’s listed on the disc itself.