The UK leg will kick off at the Sheffield Arena on November 4th and finish with two nights at London’s 02 Arena. Make sure you forgo your 21st century habits though as this album is meant to be enjoyed from start to finish not cherry-picked from iTunes.What I’m waiting to see form this next album is whether they’ve reined in all the masturbatory prog indulgences or whether they’ve pulled a Mars Volta and dissapeared so far up their ass we’ll never see them again.Įither way they couldn’t have picked a better time to release the album (other than 20 years ago when people still bought CDs instead of using fucking iTunes), as the tickets to their November UK tour flew out of the box office like a politician when the pub opens, selling out all 85,000 tickets in less than half an hour. For those more adventurous listeners looking to broaden their horizons give this album a try. Try “Absolution” or “Black Holes and Revelations” for a less stressful introduction. For the casual music listener this album probably isn’t the right place to be introduced to Muse. Most Muse fans are pretty dedicated so they probably already own this album. “Undisclosed Desires” sounds like it could have come straight out of a hip-hop producer while the 3-part symphony “Exogenesis” explores the band’s more abstract side with an orchestral accompaniment all the way through the almost 15-minute odyssey. This one is no exception as Muse challenges their fans to accept new styles of music in order to get their fix of Bellamy’s amazing compositions. While the progression of Muse’s music is to be expected it is always tough to adjust with each new album. There is no “Starlight” equivalent on this album so listeners probably have to switch over to an actual rock station to catch this album on the radio. Maybe after 2006’s super-pop hit “Starlight” Muse has decided to differentiate themselves more from mainstream artists. Most of the songs clock in at above five minutes making it a little too much for the average popular music listener. The band manages to tie the segments together by first sketching the concept of the song out and then completing the illustration. It begins with a simple piano medley common in many contemporary styles but from there progresses through a choral breakdown Middle-Eastern influenced chord progressions and a classical piano interlude (a must for any epic Muse song). It was hard to imagine a single that could be more cinematic and broad than “Knights of Cydonia” from their previous album “Black Holes and Revelations but Muse has certainly shot for the stars with their new single, United States of Eurasia.” The song features an incredibly diverse mixture of musical styles. While this band used to favor crunched and heavy rock guitar it seems more and more that Muse is choosing strings and mellow synth options over heavy guitar riffs. The most consistent element has always been the soaring and pitch-perfect vocals of the band’s frontman Mathew Bellamy and the beautiful keyboard runs he composes for their multi-layered sound. The album continues the progressive musical arc that Muse has been on since their first album “Showbiz.” With each album their sound gets more and more electronic and broad and their message gets increasingly dramatic and political. 1 spot in 16 countries including the United Kingdom and topped out at third on the billboard charts in the United States. Muse released their fifth album “The Resistance.” The album took the No.