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The most valiant song from "Meteora" - Don't stay (0.68) represent some sort of positivity. This could indicate that the subject themes of Meteora, though still angsty, had some sort of resolution compared to the uncertainty and confusion that the protagonist of "Hybrid Theory" might have felt. Overall, "Meteora" was more valiant (positive) than "Hybrid Theory". In this sense, it was similar to the first two albums. One more light was, a big stylistic switch in terms of being more "poppy" in nature, and this reflected in small variation in length of the songs. LP lowered down the variance in "Living Things" and then bumped it up again in "Hunting Party" (which, although returned a bit to the heavier rock style of the first two albums, did not return to their original style of less variant song durations). In fact, Christopher Weingarten of The Village Voice compared it to Radiohead's OK Computer), with short songs like "The Radiance" and "Empty Spaces" and longer ones like "The Catalyst". "Minutes to Midnight" had some songs which broke the 3-minute barrier which LP had till then - Shadow of the Day was at around 5 minutes, and the album closer, The Little Things Give You Away, at 6.4 minutes.Ī Thousand Suns was LP's most "varied" album (makes sense, because as far as I know, its their only concept album. You may have noticed this, too: the first two albums seemed very formulaic (at least in terms of song lengths), with similar length songs. On looking at the standard deviations though, we find that song lengths didn't vary much in the first two albums, while there was a switch in "Minutes to Midnight". Most of the albums have mean song durations in the 3-3.5 minute range.