Unintended
Muse Unintended(Mushroom)
Muse
Unintended(Mushroom)
Muse's latest does little to steer them away from the Radiohead comparisons - sounding, as it does, exactly like Radiohead with a stage-school graduate on vocals.
Much is made of Matt Bellamy's voice. It's described as soaring, fragile, visceral and tender and so it may well be, but it takes enormous talent to express such bleak introspective sentiment without sounding whiny and overwrought. Which this does. As long as you've never heard Jeff Buckley or Radiohead then I'm sure this is fantastic. For everyone else, it's
just about bearable to listen to
in a fifth single from the debut album sort of way. Muse have a huge future ahead of them, so maybe it's time to record that second record and stop drawing
on the weaker tracks from the first one. Hmmm?
ANDY CAPPER
Unintended(Mushroom)
Muse's latest does little to steer them away from the Radiohead comparisons - sounding, as it does, exactly like Radiohead with a stage-school graduate on vocals.
Much is made of Matt Bellamy's voice. It's described as soaring, fragile, visceral and tender and so it may well be, but it takes enormous talent to express such bleak introspective sentiment without sounding whiny and overwrought. Which this does. As long as you've never heard Jeff Buckley or Radiohead then I'm sure this is fantastic. For everyone else, it's
just about bearable to listen to
in a fifth single from the debut album sort of way. Muse have a huge future ahead of them, so maybe it's time to record that second record and stop drawing
on the weaker tracks from the first one. Hmmm?
ANDY CAPPER
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