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

I find that I get hooked on one or a few albums at a time; I've been like this all my life. I'll listen to a couple of albums over and over for a few weeks or sometimes longer, and although I try to move onto something else, if I'm hooked on something I always end up going back to it. For the last few months one constant on my mp3 player has been Black Holes And Revelations by Muse. Released in 2006, it was their newest album until the recent release of The Resistance. It features several hit singles and was highly praised by all the critics at the time of release. Muse are a rock band, but not your straightforward guitar-bass-drums combo. They use ...  Read the complete review