Album review: Muse - 'The Resistance'
Greetings, citizen of Eurasia, resident of colony GBv6.0. Please state serial code and expiry date to any hovering micromonitor and proceed to Aquadome for daily cleansing. The State reminds all citizens to keep their ResUnits appropriately free...
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Low-key? Pah! Even without their pyro and stage tricks Matt Bellamy and co are unbeatable Kiss without the make-up. Brandon Flowers without the moustache. Iggy without the waggled wanger. Panic At The Disco without the !. Intriguing ideas, but...
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Rejoice, for Muse have finally seen fit to release last summer’s Wembley Stadium spectaculars in full sound and vision! First, though, with bruising inevitability, here’s the science bit. No conventional ‘Live At Wembley’ titles for Muse....
Muse: Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Saturday,...
The Wembley heroes bring their triumphant 12 months to a close on the other side of the planet. Next year, the moon… We all witnessed it: there was the fire, the trapeze artists, the huge TV screens and the giant satellite dishes that flanked...
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And still they come. Having delivered the greatest acceptance speech in history at the NME Awards the Teignmouth startroopers unleash yet another single from rock’n’roll death star ‘Black Holes & Revelations’. “Don’t give up the...
Muse: Starlight
So you’ve cornered the intergalactic stadium-prog market, proved you can bash out falsetto sex-funk hits at the drop of a hat and sold enough records to buy yourself a new jet-pack. Where can you possibly go from here? Well, if you’re Matt...
Muse: Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London,...
You should treat this review like the Q scene in a Bond movie, the bit where he’s showing off all the amazing gadgets and weapons he’ll be getting to use in the coming months. You’ll be 007, Muse will be the amazing scientists, the songs...
Muse: Black Holes & Revelations
So, just how bombastic, overblown, wilfully obscure, magnificent, portentous, histrionic, eccentric and mental is Muse’s new record? Well, there’s a moment, as ‘Hoodoo’ morphs into epic finale ‘Knights Of Cydonia’, when a piano that...
Muse: Supermassive Black Hole
So you’ve broken free of the globally-warmed tatters of Earth’s atmosphere, leaving the sinners below to be burnt alive in an apocalyptic alien death-ray firestorm (co-ordinated by the Pentagon, obviously). Then – Muse-ton, we have a...
Muse : Absolution
In our green, moneyed corner of Planet Earth, possibility is being pissed up the wall. For the vast majority of human beings, at the age of about 21, the sparkle in the eyes deadens just a little, reason overtakes wonder, and they become a citizen...
