Muse- The Resistance Album Review

Muse. They've produced some stellar work in the past. Their debut hit full length album, Absolution, broke records and boundaries setting them as one of the premiere and hardest rocking UK bands out there. Their follow up with Black Holes and Revelations only solidified them as a progressive creative machine. And now with theyre third album, The Resistance, theyve gone and done something that few bands can ever pull off. They have re-defined rock opera. Honestly, whether they intended to or not they did just that. With the bands unique electo-classical music rock mashing and progressive flow from one track to another theyve created some nue age rock symphony.

Muse has always been noted for their involvement of big sound, big noise, big show and The Resistance is no exception. The only real way to describe the sound being blasted into my mind would be simply epic. Its a perfectly produced musical blend of forward rock music with electronic filler and symphonic back up. Something that Muse has done before but only in this album has it really all come together for me. For instance: Absolution was a fantastic album, but it was edgy, it was loud and it was raw. Something to march too and bang your head two, especially with the two hit singles off the track, Hysteria and Time is Running Out. Now, Black Holes and Revelations was also a stellar piece of work. But it was more experimental and a bit poppy with its singles Suppermassive Black Hole and Starlight. Now you take both of these albums and mash them together, progress and experiment and produce the hell out of it until its absolutely perfect in sound and then youve got The Resistance. Its got movie soundtrack production quality and is amazing to listen to, especially the last three tracks which are quite literally a rock symphony.

Briefly on the last three tracks, known as Exogenesis: Symphony, Pt. 1: Overture, Pt. 2: Cross-Pollination and Pt. 3: Redemption, are beautifully produced with Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt being referenced as the influences behind the classical tracks. Although no official symphony or established orchestra was partnered with a group of 40 classical musicians were brought together to form an orchestra with the band. The tracks are a totally unique concept for the band with front man Matthew Bellamy having hinted on its creation in 2008 when entering the studio saying I think the next album Id like to do at least one 15-minute space-rock solo. Honestly its utterly fantastic through and through.