They were like, 'Yeah, we hear the merit.

When the guys heard it, I kind of said to them, 'What do you think about that?' and their responses, for the first time in a few years, were pretty good. The thing about 'Lost in the Echo' was it sounded a lot like what the 'song' sounds like, I think. Especially on the last two albums, a lot of those rough ideas can be really similar to what end up on the album or they can be just the egg that it hatches from. For an album, I bring in anywhere between twenty-five to seventy-five demos to arrive at what we end up choosing for the record.

Mike also discussed how it was the first time in years the band was opening to writing songs that sounded like traditional Linkin Park, stating 'The past two years, whenever I brought anything in that sounded very much like Linkin Park - the thing that people think Linkin Park is supposed to be - the guys in the band kind of really turned away from it. According to Mike Shinoda, 'Lost In The Echo', called 'Holding Company' while being worked on, was a defining moment for the album, and helped them decide the direction of the album.

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