Linkin Park
Leave Out All The Rest - Linkin Park Single Review
Single Review
Following a very successful headline tour of the UK, selling out London's O2 Arena on two occasions, and also selling over 300,000 copies of the widely acclaimed album, 'Minutes to Midnight', Linkin Park have released a fourth (yes, fourth!) single from the album following 'What I've Done', 'Bleed It Out', 'Shadow Of The Day' and 'Given Up'. Where most bands releasing four singles from an album begin to sound repetitive, Linkin Park have pulled this one off with style showcasing their wide-ranging music capabilities in a melodic ballad, strongly influenced with a pop-rock style twist. 'Leave out All the Rest' is a unique sounding, fresh track from one of the world's most influential bands. Did we expect anything less?
However, in a way Linkin Park seemed to have veered from their roots of much heavier tracks namely 'Crawling' and 'Faint' from the first and second albums respectively, into a much more popular market for rock-ballads where a single catchy track could potentially sell millions; yet 'Leave Out All The Rest' has not had the publicity or the marketing for anything near this success. I have not heard it receiving any radio play, and only once before I heard the intro on an advert for American Drama 'Law + Order' on Sky One.
'Leave out All the Rest' does have fresh sounding catchy lyrics, combined with the warm, melodic guitar riffs of a huge summer success, and with wider radio play and marketing, maybe it could have been one.
