Review:
When Muse released the "trailer" for The 2nd Law, it was the kind of preemptive shock tactic you typically expect from a record that has a lot riding on it. "MUSE GOES DUBSTEP!!!" created a minor firestorm, albeit one that was containable because it was utterly predictable. Of course Muse fans would storm the YouTube comment section with bloodthirsty vengeance. However you think Muse fits into the lineage of Queen or Rush musically, they've benefited greatly from establishing themselves as a last bastion of technically boastful and very popular prog-rock that's always implicitly held unkind attitudes toward synthesizer-based music. On the other hand, of course Muse would eventually glom onto EDM. It's the last frontier for a band that's only now integrating those sandworm basslines but whose music has always provided listeners with equivalents of "the drop"-- a glass-shattering falsetto run, Wagnerian crescendos, solos that are gunning for the one tab per month in Guitar World that's from the last decade. Having seemingly mastered all modes of excess, you'd think The 2nd Law would be Muse's unimpeachable triumph. It's not, and the problem isn't that Muse have gone too far... they haven't gone far enough.
By Ian Cohen


Country: UK
Genre: Alternative rock
Quality: [FLAC +.cue]
Tracklist:

01. Supremacy [4:55]
02. Madness [4:40]
03. Panic Station [3:04]
04. Prelude [0:58]
05. Survival [4:17]
06. Follow Me [3:51]
07. Animals [4:23]
08. Explorers [5:47]
09. Big Freeze [4:40]
10. Save Me [5:09]
11. Liquid State [3:03]
12. The 2nd Law: Unsustainable [3:48]
13. The 2nd Law: Isolated System [5:00]