Origin Of Symmetry - Muse

Origin of Symmetry opens quietly with the piano arpeggios of single, 'New Born'. Note Matthew Bellamy's noisy breath intake (his style). Thankfully, this is a rock record and soon, with a distorted guitar riff he signals the band to do what they do best (that is rock by the way). As the drop D riff relies on a chord progression to get anywhere, none of the parts of the song stood out to me - thus making for a good but not great start to the album. Of the other singles, 'Bliss', with it's 3 octave synth chord ascend-descends, has nicely bass-driven verses, as does 'Hyper Music', the latter making a double A-sided single with a cover of 'Feeling Good' which, not ...  Read the complete review

**THE BAND** Muse are a British rock trio from Devon, UK. They are very well known for their amazing dramatic anthems and unique live performances in which the usually pack out any stadium, arena or festival where they take to the stage. They formed way back in 1994 and have continuously progressed year by year musically, never failing to disappoint their fans with their flawless albums. At the moment the band are probably most well known for songs such as: 'Plug In Baby', 'Time Is Running Out', 'Super Massive Blackhole', and many, many more. Muse have won many awards including: MTV Europe Music awards, Kerrang! Awards, NME Awards, Brit Awards and Q Awards. Although ...  Read the complete review

'I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.' Muse should pay attention to the words of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, ambition on the scale displayed by this their second album can only lead to disaster. Well perhaps disaster is going a little far, and I’m not about to suggest that Matt Bellamy is in danger of having his head cut off by a mad Scotsman but one does get the feeling that Muse are trying a little bit too hard. This album is overlong, overambitious (sorry that word again), overblown and probably lots of other words that begin with ...  Read the complete review

Muse were propelled to fame with the release of Origin of Symmetry, their second studio album and a stunning effort that, in many eyes, established them as the new Pink Floyd, a progressive rock band with a heart and soul that made sonically pleasing and thematically complex music. It all begins with New Born, which was the first single from the album. Bellamy's vocals in particular are very haunting - it also has a lot of piano work for a while, and is quite a lengthy song (that was obviously chopped down for the radio). Soon enough it flies into heavy guitar work and is really fun to listen to. Bliss is the next song and also the second single - I ...  Read the complete review

Origin of symmetry is the second studio album of musical hitmakers MUSE! The Devon born artists recorded the album through a number of recording studios from tracking in abbey road studios (where previous music superstars the beatles had famously recorded of course!) to mastering the album in sonys mastering studio! The album was finally released in June 2001 on mushroom records. The album did remain relatively close in style to their previous, and debut, album 'showbiz' unlike the bands most recently released album 'black holes and revelations' which has quite a unique new sound for the band. The album quickly took off around the world and featured ...  Read the complete review