Other songs I'll explicitly mention are 'The Globalist', which has its moments but feels a little underwhelming for a 10-minute track, 'Drones' for being. They hold their own alright, but the only GREAT tracks are 'Reapers' and 'The Handler', the former of which stands out the most due to its EPIC outro both songs also have awesome progression and great solos. Each song seems to attribute to an older song so there's something for everyone, but that essentially means that only Muse fans will really enjoy this album and it probably won't draw in many newer fans, and older "fans" who only like pre-BH&R Muse will probably dislike it besides a couple tracks. It's not THAT big of a deal in hindsight, and at least the album is, again, identifiable as a Muse record. That said, like The 2nd Law, the album's sound is rather scattered, shifting from pop to hard rock to stadium rock, the list goes on. I say "a little" because the orchestral and electronic elements that characterize 'The Resistance' and 'The 2nd Law' respectively are still present, but overall the band has stopped making experimental crap. Muse takes a step back from the previous two albums and goes back to their roots a little.
Muse is moving in a forward direction and I'm looking forward to their next release. Satisfying album for Muse fans, won't win back any Symmetry fanboys. Satisfying album for Muse fans, won't win back any TL DR version: Muse is back to sounding like Muse but not with their fullest potential.
TL DR version: Muse is back to sounding like Muse but not with their fullest potential. Highlights for me: The Handler, Reapers, Mercy … Expand Muse has done a great job here, giving us a good set of new songs that work well as an album. While these childish lyrics seem to kind of work, it tends to give every song a rather silly undertone, which I think is unfortunate. The album starts of with a series of great songs, but it kind of fizzles towards the end with a couple of somewhat uninteresting songs that also feel seriously underpowered compared to the rest of the album (not counting the de facto outro song). Drones sounds vibrant, fresh and the songwriting is about as good as Muse has ever been (except for the lyrics).
This is achieved by a very deliberate focus on the guitar sound and the producer really did a good job there. Most songs are very much to the point and they sound good in unison.
Usually this results in discombobulated albums that never really reach their goal, but this is not one of those. Usually this results in Muse's seventh offering sounds like they are revisiting their past and offering a bit of everything for everyone. Muse's seventh offering sounds like they are revisiting their past and offering a bit of everything for everyone.
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