The second disc, a live 2001 Parisian outing, although expert in musicianship and channeled with great emotion, seems shackled by the albatross of drama. The tones are introverted and convoluted: this amiable choppiness suggests the band’s voracious appetite for experimentation, and the songs are the freest in Muse’s oeuvre. Half of the two-CD Hullabaloo collects up the band’s B-sides the songs play the uniformity of the singing against the plastic, intimate chamber pop concerns. Song structures adapt to the disorder of the singing: Bellamy’s elusive tenor attempts to reclaim heroic status for lovesick youth. The opener, “New Born,” is a knockout: as on their many live recordings, the guitars are turned up past 10, the keyboards resemble cranky church work, and the bassist is creatively anchorless. Leckie captures a warm shower of sounds, cascading torrents of distinguished climaxes. The songwriting is less meandering the drumming is solid and taciturn Bellamy’s vocals are pockets of anxiety-ridden narcissism. Origin of Symmetry is a ramped-up and felicitous improvement. The problems are more of exuberance and idolatry: the ballads are too plaintive the keyboards wail like jingles from discarded Romanticism. The frenetic “Fillip” and the lugubrious weeper “Falling Down” are fine specimens, confirming that Muse has much to say with youthful chutzpah. Produced by John Leckie, the album is both overwrought and fascinating. Every time over-the-top bloat or trite dullness weighs it down, either a striking symphonic surge or a joined heavy rhetoric of guitars pushes the band beyond mere imitators or parody. Though a few years away from melodic confidence, the sturdy, churning rock vacillates between pretty boy theatrical ennui and urgent and evocative cacophony. Mainstream and groping, Showbiz is satisfying and invigorating. When Muse breaks free of afflictive sycophancies, the music can punch and startle, but the trio is, for the most part, conservative and spinsterish, paleontologists of stadium cock rock of the mid 1980s.ĭrummer Dominic Howard, bassist Chris Wolstenholme and guitarist/keyboardist/singer (and primary lyricist) Bellamy began playing together at the age of 13 in Teignmouth, Devon. At once droll and harrowing, Bellamy’s singing takes seriously Muse’s citizenship in the community of progdom even amid soaring, grinding crescendos, the band’s homage to guitar rock strikes an occasionally hollow, mimicking pose. While seemingly in the process of evolving from what was once operatic Radioheadedness to brighter, cleaner shoegaze, Muse can lapse into grandiose silliness still, the pontificating vocalese and trendy gimmicks can’t keep Muse from its passionate rhapsodies, like an Anglican tent revival full of hand wringers and the recently converted. Built up from saccharine piano wanderings and roaring merged guitars, Muse’s sound nicely fits the aims and aesthetics of charismatic leader Matt Bellamy, whose voice is both tender and audacious. Listen to Muse? I know Alenka has and had mixed feelings.Īlso, do you like knowing background about a band or do you just listen to the music? I feel like knowing a little about them makes the music more real or more relatable to me.Īnd one more picture because I have a CRUSH! Too bad he is engaged since I would have had a total chance with him if he was single.Blustery and bludgeoning, young English trio Muse is unafraid to take chances. Great video, great falsetto, great guitars, great drums, great band. It is not their best song but the openning just draws me in, I can’t help it. I sort of got interested in them after hearing “Supermassive Black Hole” on my Nine Inch Nails Pandora station. And I mean HOT!Ĭlassification and looks aside, their music is great. Matthew Bellamy, the lead singer, is hot.According to wiki and allmusic, they can be described as alt rock, progressive rock (don’t ask the difference), glam, electronica, or space rock (wtf?!).They started in the 90s but really didn’t hit it big until the 2000s (or 00s, don’t know how to abbreviate that).Here’s a little background on Muse because I love learning facts about different bands (don’t ask me why, some people like sports trivia, I love music trivia). New (to me) band! Well, not really since I after listening to their album Black Holes and Revelations, I realized I had heard a lot of them before and loved them.
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