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By Audra Tracy
Swirling electronic melodies and stabbing lyrics set the tone for this politically charged album in the opening track Take a Bow. Blended with spacey jams, Matthew Bellamy's haunting vocals lend an almost mythic quality to the song. The rapid fire Assassin is a head-banger's dream, and the radio friendly rock anthem Exo-Politics features one of the catchiest hooks on the whole album.
But it's the new single Knights of Cydonia that will really wow audiences. This bookend to Take a Bow boasts heavy, dramatic builds and tremendously satisfying releases reminiscent of another British band with authority issues. Like Pink Floyd's masterpiece, The Wall, Knights of Cydonia steamrolls listeners with stirringly emotional lyrics condemning society's injustices.
Overall, Muse's latest release is a sonic sampler, skipping from synthesizers to horns to string sections to mechanical madness in just 45 minutes. The band's ability to meld different genres and instruments into one concise album without it seeming overproduced is stunning in itself. Toss in the crushingly relevant lyrics and you've got yourself some bona fide rebel music. Raise your fists and all hail our Muse for political change.
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ddressing the masses through the airwaves, Muse is recruiting for a worldwide revolution. With Black Holes and Revelations, Radiohead's darker, more disturbed, little brother takes aim at a planet corrupt with 'demonocracy'.
