 
Muse are easily one of the best British bands
around at the moment, they have been going as
a band for a solid 18 years now and in that time
they have released 6 very diverse sounding albums
and toured the world over many times including
headlining some of the biggest festivals across
the world and also played the Olympics closing
ceremony which has been billed as the biggest
live event in the world to date.
The sixth Muse album ‘The 2nd Law’
has just been released and a couple of months
before the release of the album Muse previewed
a couple of tracks from the album and within minutes
the internet was in melt down with music news
websites, forums, Facebook and Twitter all reporting
how muse have gone dub step with their new album
and now after listening to the album a few times
over I can confirm that yes Muse have gone dub
step but they have not over done it and have only
gone dub step for a handful of tracks and it actually
works really well giving the band an even bigger
more diverse epic sound.
‘The 2nd Law’ is an epic album and
easily one of the strongest albums released by
a British band so far this year and from start
to finish it has a feel of classic Muse mixed
with Queen, Rush and Skrillex to give an almost
cinematic sound and feel, take the opening track
‘Supremacy’ for example the first
40 – 50 seconds of the track sounds like
it should be featured in a mad chase scene in
an action or sci-fi movie and then suddenly the
song almost stops as Matt Bellamy comes in with
his amazing vocals which starts off really slow
and mellow sounding and but then soon builds up
until Bellamy reaches his peak and screams “Your
Supremacy’ like someone has just cupped
his balls by surprise, the song is truly unpredictable
and features so much more than what you would
ever expect Muse to deliver.
‘Madness’ is a toned down synth driven
track which ends up sounding very much like Queen
during the middle part of the song as the guitar
solo kicks in sounding like Brain May has just
joined the band, ‘Panic Station’ is
an extremely bouncy sounding song which has a
sound and feel of early Red Hot Chilli Peppers,
yet Muse somehow nail it ever so well that if
this was a rock off there would be no point in
the Chilli’s even turning up.
Four songs in and Muse include a ‘Prelude’
which is a short instrumental piece which sounds
like it would fit into a major part of a sci-fi
movie as it has that whole space age feel which
makes me think that Tom Delonge needs to get in
touch with Muse about this as they seem to be
doing everything on ‘2nd Law’ that
Delonge promised Angels And Airwaves would do
from the start.
‘Survival’ is the song which the world
witnessed at the Olympics and it is pretty simple
to see why Muse choose to play this song to millions
of people across the world as it is an truly epic
4minute song which is completely bonkers with
Muse literally putting everything into the song
apart from the kitchen sink, vocally Bellamy is
on top form and I can already imagine thousands
of people screaming “Lifes a race, and i’m
gonna win” at their live shows.
When the album reaches the two closing tracks
‘The 2nd Law Unsustainable’ and ‘The
2nd Law Isolated Systems’ Muse hit hardcore
dub step territory and it works extremely well
given off an almighty massive sound before the
mellow sounding spoken word climax of ‘The
2nd Law Isolated Systems’ fades out.
With ‘The 2nd Law’ Muse have outdone
anything they have ever done before and created
the album of their career, the album is outstanding
from start to finish with no faults in sight and
the bands fans are going to lap up the album in
massive numbers giving Muse yet another number
1 album.
5/5
Review by Trigger
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