Muse – The Resistance

Releasedate: 14-09-2009; Label: Warner Bros
By: Lara Cappelli

Muse is an English Rock band founded in 1994 by Matt Bellamy as vocalist and guitarist, Chris Wostelnholme as bassist and Dominic Howard as drummer.

Forget about “Origin of Symmetry”, forget about “Showbiz” and “Absolution”. This album isn’t definitely a back to the roots album, it is rather the end of a chapter and the start of a new one for Muse.
The first notes of “Unspring” are very electronic, and that is basically a song that is on the same wavelength of the band’s previous album “Black Holes and Revelations”. Going on, the listening turns into what the album was announced to be, more symphonic. The impression that I had was that Muse came up with different ideas, maybe too many. There isn’t a certain sound or mark that links each song, it seems that too many sounds has been blended together: from the electronic “Unspring” to the weird R’n’B reference of “Undisclosed Desires” to the Queen mark of “United States of Eurasia”, to the clear reference to Chopin (and to the out of place French words of “I Belong To You”). The only idea that I liked was the one of having three songs part of a symphony, which are actually the three songs I liked the most.

The album handles a wide range of sounds and I think Muse evidently felt the urge to change their style into something that hasn’t stun me at all. Maybe the band aimed to surprise and they surely succeeded in it, now it’s fans turn to judge if it is in a positive or negative way.

Links:
Muse MySpace
Muse Official