There’s riffs on this album that are more complex and energetic than even those on Absolution or Black Holes & Revelations, and Bellamy is once again singing his heart out in that shrieking falsetto that gives us goosebumps from time to time. The reason I’m able to use the past tense, fortunately, is because the Muse we all grew up loving appears to finally be back. When they trekked even further off the map with The 2nd Law’s electronic fetish and pop that bordered on show tunes, many diehard fans lost hope of ever hearing another riff like the one from ‘Citizen Erased.’ It felt like they had become a lame cover version of themselves, and in the process they were subjected to mockery from nearly everyone who was alive when Origin of Symmetry was released.
That might have been okay, but they scaled all instrumental technicalities back to such a basic level that they were hardly recognizable as being even close to the same band. The Resistance lacked any real rock aesthetics, favoring synthesizers and classical influences over electric guitars.
Review Summary: Muse is back! Well, sort of…įor practically the last decade, Muse has just flat out missed the mark.
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