Origin Of Symmetry - Muse Reviews

In future this album will be looked back upon as a Dark Side of the Moon or an Automatic for the People, if the world hasn't gone completely mad. Instead of weird experimental stuff (ie R*******d) I was curiously expecting I got a wonderful and stupidly, but greatly overblown album. You have to listen to this all the way through with ...  Read the complete review

Muse are amazing. I think people who compare them to Radiohead (the new era Roger Waters - "woke up this morning, felt so depressed...") should clean out their ears and strat listening. Muse are far more sophisticated and creative. I hate to compare but I find bands like Mansun, Smashing Pumpkins and the Verve have a similar depth to ...  Read the complete review

Your'e listening to Radioh-sorry, Muse's new album, Origin of The Bends. Or was it Origin of Symettry. I just bought the new Muse album, Origin of Symmetry. Amazing stuff! I used to be a professional Muse hater, but now thanks to just randomly picking up the new album at my local CD shop (17 miles away...) I am now heavily in to ...  Read the complete review

This album really does kick. Not only does it have the well known new_born and plug in baby, it has songs like bliss and hyper-music. If u didnt already know, this album was recorded live without any remixing etc. And trust me, muse at v2001 was the best thing that you could possible see. All the songs on this album are brilliant and muse are ...  Read the complete review

Before the off i'd like to state that although I love music but im probably the worst person at reviewing it, and in the immortal words of Morpheous from the film The Matrix. "Remember, all i'm offering is the truth, nothing more." Muse have made two albums, Showbiz being their first, and now Origin of ...  Read the complete review

It is time for the next album, in my continual review of my collection. Muse's latest offering to us, after their original "showbiz" which I never actually knew much about. "Origin of symetry" updates Muse's image to a more hard rock style, with bizzarely a mix of choirestral work from vocalist Matthew ...  Read the complete review

.... you get a strangly good album! That cant be right can it? It would be right to say that Matt Belamy (lead vocalist & guitarist) whines with class! New Born, the first track on the album, has stunning guitar riffs which makes your blood pump faster and faster to Screenager which is slow and relaxing. It is true that Muse use a mixture of ...  Read the complete review

It's rather odd that whenever Muse are reviewed, comparisons seem to be drawn... and every single reviewer points fingers at the same source. With 'Showbiz' it was Radiohead... and this was widely renounced by anyone actually listening to the album as a rather lazy comparison to draw. This time round, it seems to be Queen. I ...  Read the complete review

Muse have come to stardom over the last six months, mainly due to the release of this album. The fame that Muse have recieved has, in this case, been well justified. Origin of Symmetry perfectly progresses from the guitar-band style of Showbiz in a number of ways. A: The piano/synth/kbd is used a lot more B: The increasing ...  Read the complete review

A fantastic band; a fantastic album. I was introduced to Muse when I was with a friend who was watching TOTP. After what I presumed were the usual abundance of headsetted, choreographed, dancing-with-fixed-smiles from the poppy groups, I was surprised to see a bloke with a shock of bright red hair sedately play a piano intro; then switch to ...  Read the complete review

"Right, yeah, a bit of piano, a lot of piano I mean. Mmm. Yeah lets pile some organ aswell, y'know? Jus' for that real apocalyptic cosmic punch. Yeah. Now, I'll turn my amps up to 11, just to push ourselves that little bit further... right off the edge, y'know? Yeah, now if these guitars are ANIMALS, y'know? Scratch, ...  Read the complete review

As a big Muse fan but also an appreciate of all other indie rock music i have to say that this album is fantastic. Im not to keen on the whole indie music background but muse are a breakthrough. Matthew Bellamy is a true musical genius, and thanks to his brother not wanting the instruments that gave Matthew the oppertunity to do it. ...  Read the complete review

Crap pun I know. Anyway the new album from muse whats it like? I personally love it. I wasn't really into the first album and got ito muse through a friend. To me the first album was a bit dreary and depperessing I couldn't really see them being good at a gig for instance. This new album has completly changed all that songs like Bliss and ...  Read the complete review

In my opinion the first Muse album was a very mixed bag. Approximately half the album was great while half was a bit dull. Tracks like Cave, Sober and Uno were great but the others had something missing for me. However, having listened to the new album through several times now the overall quality seems to be higher. But I’m getting ahead of ...  Read the complete review

I first got into Muse after hearing 'Muscle Museum' a track taken from their previous album 'Showbiz'. I rushed out and bought the album having heard just one song off it, and luckily for me I wasn't disapointed. Showbiz in itself was a brilliant album and when I heard Muse had gone back into the recording studio I couldn't ...  Read the complete review

It's a fact. Muse have gone mad. Or at least that's the impression the band have given me after listening to their latest album. At times, I forgot I was listening to a rock album. Such is the OTT nature of 'Origins of Symmetry', it felt, especially during some tracks ('Space Dementia' and 'Citizen Erased', ...  Read the complete review

Muse have been compared to Radiohead by a few people. Yes they both have singers with quite broad vocal pitches, Yes both bands have songs that are epic in scale but have some kind of downbeat feel. But while Radiohead seem to be pionnering some new depth of experimental music Muse have returned with this their second album. Now I could ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

Kelly Jones of the Stereophonics recently made a flippant comment implying that Muse are little more than a "Radiohead tribute band". That's pretty rich, coming from the frontman of a band churning out increasingly insipid, uninspired and unspiring songs with lyrics that read like the sort of stuff that bored teenagers working in ...  Read the complete review