Album Rating: 2.0

The only thing the review gets wrong is that Muse is a top of the charts rock band that pays critics to say they make good music (see that hilarious metacritic 77/100), and the room was a shit movie everyone liked for the lolz



This disc is a bad joke that will make them millionaires

Album Rating: 3.0

ah yes bellamy is running around putting cash in reviewers pockets whenever a new album release rolls around, hilarious idea lunatic.

Album Rating: 3.5

“the room was a shit movie everyone liked for the lolz”



Did anyone like that film without any irony? Same with this album, it’s shit, but over the top fun

Album Rating: 3.0

Autopsy - Shitfun

Album Rating: 2.0

Will Of The People is a blatant, lazy ripoff of "The Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson... Yikes.

imagine rating this a 3.5

Album Rating: 3.0

imagine

You're a true rebel

Album Rating: 2.0

Muse is fucking fucked.

Album Rating: 2.0

Euphoria, Fucking Fucked, and Kill or Be Killed are all solid tracks instrumentally. Muse's lyrics have always been ridiculous random political rhetoric or borderline incomprehensible, so if you're willing to make peace with that fact, this is a pretty fun album.



My objectivity here is almost certainly skewed since OoS is one of my favorite albums of all time and I could barely endure anything created since The Resistance (which was iffy as is), but the blatant callbacks to old tracks like Bliss, Knights of Cydonia, Time is Running Out, Butterflies and Hurricanes, etc. is enough for me to feel like they made this album for the purpose of getting old fans (fuckers) like me to have some fun with the band like we did 20 years ago hearing Plug in Baby or Citizen Erased for the first time. No, it's not groundbreaking or progressive, it's not going to blow your head off or make you reevaluate music, but at least a majority of the tracks sound like Muse again.



That being said, the first and title track of this album is probably the worst thing they have ever written

Album Rating: 1.5

'Not gonna rate cause I couldn't get past the first 2 tracks but they were offensively shitty'



I would say it gets better (it does), but that's not exactly difficult when you're starting at rock bottom, I'd extend the courtesy to Liberation as well - worst opening run of the year for sure



'Euphoria is basically Time is Running Out in the pre chorus and chorus. Was anyone every talking about that here? I haven't seen this discussion' (2)



I was about to say this and it is one of the better tracks, even it felt like a knock-off amalgamated version of better Muse songs, TIRO in particular. Kill Or Be Killed is okay and Verona's actually pretty solid, easily the best run here. The closer is bad but in that whole 'at least it made me smile' kind of way, so the album 'ends' in significantly more engaging ways than it starts.

Album Rating: 1.5

Won't Stand Down doesn't deserve the love because the neutered production renders the 'heavy' guitars completely unimpactful and I'm not totally sold on the overall direction the song takes even if it had some 'potentially useable parts'.



Ghosts deserves more love because at least it sounds genuine / not a self-parody / whatever and it's almost a shock to hear Bellamy just sing in his signature style of old accompanied by piano. The simplicity works for it when everything else is so over-the-top. I mean as piano ballads go it isn't exactly subtle, but for them in 2022? Yeah.



that's my hot-take for the thread

Album Rating: 2.0

I cant believe the title track that starts off this album literally just starts with The Beautiful People basically exactly

Album Rating: 2.5

Having the time of my life with this, not gonna lie!

Shame that the opener gives the worst first impression though. Should've opened it with Kill or Be Killed.

Album Rating: 1.5

Very brave of him to make a concept album about hating the system, without saying what that system is or why it’s oppressive. Coward shit. The music is equally as bad.

Album Rating: 2.0

Muse's protest music has always been vague to the point of being meaningless iirc



There's some pointed shit about capitalism in Unsustainable but yea



Idk about this album, not sure I want to listen to it

Album Rating: 1.0

Will of the people - I see what they did there but holy shit that song sucks balls

Album Rating: 2.0

Muse in 2022 sure is something

Album Rating: 2.0

This review is great, but this album is a fucking train wreck.

Album Rating: 2.5

This is a wild take, but this might actually be my favourite Muse album.

I even had to listen through their entire discography again to see if I was going mad, and no. This album is a ton of fun despite how ridiculous it is.

I've came to realise that I simply can't take this band serious anymore. I've always appreciated their talent but I've rarely got through an album without switching off at some point.

This one is a game changer. Sure it's not as epic as their earlier outings, but it sure kept me on my toes. The fact that it can go from synth pop, to 70's Queen, into nu-metal is so obscene, it fascinates me.

It's a mess of an album, but I can't help but grin.

Come at me.