Black Holes And Revelations - Muse

Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme do it again, only completely different! This is their fourth album since their creation in 1997, and definiately their best yet, and with a massive tour in 2007 to support it, it has undoubtabtly been their most successful, who can forget Wembley? The Album starts off with 'Take a Bow', a building song, once which is building up to the 'bridge' continually, but never quite reaches it, however this suspense is compensated by Matt Bellamys brilliant voice. The most notable songs, well, theres more than one, theres something for everybody, and infact, to show how confident they are, they've ...  Read the complete review

Is it me or fo muse seem to get better after every single album the make? because this is their 4th album and it quite frankly, amazes me that they arent even more popular and its great that they can set themselves apart from all of the other guitar based bands. The track list runs: 1. Take a bow 2. Starlight 3. Supermassive black hole 4. Map of the problematique 5. Soldiers poem 6. Invincible 7. Assassin 8. Exo-politics 9. City of delusion 10. Hoodoo 11. Knights of cydonia It is great that three boys (Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme) can go from a garage not too far from my house ...  Read the complete review

British bands tend to have only two degrees of success. There are some who sweep the nation by storm and rise to the top of the charts as mainstream friendly trend setters, yet fail when the question is asked of them on foreign shores. And it's an important question. The music landscape is no longer based in Central London and bands are nowadays judged on their ability to shift records worldwide. Then you have your Coldplays of the world. The bands who rise to the top of the charts domestically as well as across the pond and on the international scene. Where do Muse fit in to this? Somewhere in between, you might say. They're a stubborn little gem of a band who refuse to ...  Read the complete review

Black Holes and Revelations, Muse's fourth full-length effort, can only be described as overindulgence to the extreme. With this record Muse have finally unshackled themselves, and opened up to a whole new set of influences, finally shaking their 'poor man's Radiohead' tag, which has seemingly clung to their legs like a horny jack russel. It is a testament to Muse's technical and creative ability when I say that no other band could have made this album. In the hands of any other this album may have seemed pretentious but with Bellamy's evocative voice oozing sincerity at every turn it is hard to ignore the emotive nature of each and every song. The focal point of this ...  Read the complete review

The album showcases a band that has continually improved and reinvented themselves over their fruitful career, and a singer that has come into his own. The band's philosophies are still as diverse and mysterious as they have ever been, but the band seems so much more confident, more polished, and more sure of themselves than they have ever been. Put simply, "Black Holes and Revelations" is Muse's finest work yet. City of delusion, and Hoodoo have strong Spanish themes to them, which they pull off wonderfully. Supermassive Black Hole, Map of the Problematique, and even points of Take a Bow have a techno style which also seems to work for the band. A ...  Read the complete review