Album Rating: 3.0

At this point I think Muse could come out with a masterpiece and it would get buried, given the hate for this band around this site. That said, I think it's the band having a bit of fun after the uber-seriousness of Drones and it doesn't feel to me that they give a damn about critical opinion anymore. I would never argue that this is their best, and it's not going to be on my main rotation, but I've heard bands phone it in a lot worse than this.

Album Rating: 2.5

this fucking sucks



what a shocker

Album Rating: 1.0

The super league of damning with faint praise here, sheesh

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

criticalmyth ma boi



i can understand and appreciate your standpoint



dont listen to the mindless hordes of ghoules that just wanna meme it up



memes are cool and so is muse



we all gonna die one day

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

One day Matt Bellamy will stop making music and the world will be a better place for it

Album Rating: 1.5

@CriticalMyth I would agree with you if they didn't keep writing songs about war crimes and the dangers of capitalism. If you want to be bombastic then be bombastic but you can't have such a juxtaposition between music and theme. I mean this album is about being caught up in a simulation without realising it but who the hell would realise that by just listening to the album?



For all their flaws, at least The Resistance and 2nd Law had a consistent theme about them. This and Drones are just absolute messes

Album Rating: 3.0

@YadMot Fair enough in terms of wanting a consistent theme.



OTOH would it be Bellamy/Muse if even their "having a laugh" songs weren't somehow about war crimes and the dangers of capitalism? ;)

Album Rating: 3.0

@Flugmorph Some bands are just a not-so-guilty pleasure, ya know?

Album Rating: 1.5

I think the band were better when they werent writing songs about stuff like that. I like 'political' bands (I was an Enter Shikari superfan for the longest time, though I'm embarrassed to admit it) but Muse were just better when they wrote songs about themselves and their relationships imo.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Propaganda is so fuckin good tho

Album Rating: 3.0

You don't need to be embarrassed to admit having been a fan of Enter Shikari. Band rules

Album Rating: 3.0

@YadMot My favorite era is Origin of Symmetry through The Resistance, so that might color my perspective.

Album Rating: 2.0

It's basically Dark Side Of The Moon but better

I feel sorry for my metal friend who discovered this band recently through Origin of Symmetry. Poor fucker still doesn't know what horrors await him.

Album Rating: 1.0

Is this as bad as the artwork suggests?

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

this truely is the dark souls of muse albums.



on the second listen and im beginning to warm up to it.



im serious, even propaganda is cool now

Matt looks like the type of the guy who'd approach you and randomly say, "I heard you bois wanna get rid of em' crackerjack toys"

Album Rating: 1.0

Matt is dumb agreed

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

yes im positive now that this is a masterpiece



break it to me is a fucking banger ooooooof

Album Rating: 1.0

I shan't be trolled