Mike Shinoda reflects on Linkin Park’s most “polarising” album

Looking back over the band’s seven-album discography, Mike Shinoda has called A Thousand Suns Linkin Park​’s most ​“polarising” record. In an excellent, lengthy interview with Anthony Fantano (check it out below), Mike says the California nu-metallers’ fourth LP hadn’t been ​“as commercially successful” at the time of release in 2010, following 2000 debut Hybrid Theory, 2003’s Meteora and 2007’s Minutes To Midnight. ​“Nothing could be,” the musician says (transcription via Ultimate Guitar). ​“That would be impossible.” Mike continues: ​“It was very polarising. It got one or five stars by everybody, so we ended up with three-star ratings all over the board because half the people hated it with all of their heart and soul.” Of how things have changed with A Thousand ...

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