"You know that new sound you been lookin' for?"

Linkin Park has it.  When I first heard The Catalyst a few days ago, I was seriously like "What the hell is this?"  Electronica, really?  I had head that LP was going in a new direction, but really?  ELECTRONICA?!

But now I can't stop listening to it.  It's what I've heard some refer to as "a grower:" a song that, the more you listen to it, the more you like it.  And thinking back to other LP albums (Meteora, and definitely Minutes to Midnight) many of my favorite songs from their band have been like that.  The more time you spend with it, the more you notice the detail and work that go into it, little things that get lost in the blunt ear trauma that LP can tend to cause at times.

So give it a listen.  Go into it with an open mind.  I recommend watching the video (which is pretty cool and creative on its own), and then plugging your headphones and listen a couple more times before deciding how you feel about it.  There is some pretty sick layering that Shinoda and company have put together in their opening single to A Thousand Suns that can't be appreciated through laptop speakers.

A Thousand Suns drops September 14, and I'm kind of excited to see what the rest of the album will be like.

If you want to hear another track off of the album, check out LP's MySpace page (MySpace still exists?!) to check out Wretches and Kings, another very different style LP song with hints of Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against The Machine.