We'll sit down and listen through like fifty demos - forty nine of them that Mike wrote and one of them that I hummed into my phone. This dude is on his computer with his Maschine out making music the whole time. I'm playing Field Runners and watching movies and sleeping. We're on the flight over here from the United States for example. In April 2017 in an interview in London, Chester said, "Mike is extremely prolific. They can start from anything-Lost In The Echo began with an iphone recording of a children's cat keyboard toy, which I put in iMaschine (an iPhone sampler app), then took to the studio."' From hundreds of demos, a handful of songs stand out, and we flesh those out. In a Reddit AMA on August 12, 2015, Mike talked about the beginnings of "Lost In The Echo": "I'm constantly writing-on my phone, laptop, in my studio. Let's see what we want to do." I said to them, "You know, this is like a real moment for us, now, on this album." On the last two albums, if I brought in something like this, not everyone would've given it the green light they would've said, "Oh, this sounds too predictable." But clearly, we're at a moment where we're bridging a gap between what we've been doing and the future of the band, so that was one of those songs that kind of set the bar." 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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