This review is based on many plays for a short time which makes it impossible to digest the album back.
Let's run! The first impression, as for `The Resistance 'is that the album is not a homogeneous, which takes away any quality and above proves that Muse explores in multiple directions.
`Supremacy 'brilliantly introduced the subject with great guitar effects and a rather crude rock sound aided by a melody accompanied by strings. Muse will at this stage let anyone on the road. This introductory piece could have been used in the credits of a James Bond, all fits perfectly even the 4 endnotes that would start a new sequence.
`Madness 'very electro reminds` Undisclosed Desires'. Bed and echoes, vocoders all there. The piece unfolds slowly and took more than 3 minutes before reaching cruising speed.
'Panic Station', in my opinion is not the pearl of the album. Marked resemblance `murderers'.
`Prelude and his accomplice Survival ', will be familiar to fans of the London Olympics. A piece while crescendo on the will to win. To listen to stimulate to go running a rainy November morning.
Then, the album reveals as a 2nd part, very interesting.
`Follow me ', will make you think` Resistance'. Intro crescendo, particularly in its galloping pace. To listen to go running ... still rainy day.
`Animals', and her low round like a wheel line provides the necessary continuity.
Even for the toughest, `Explorers' will make you bend a knee, as surely as a punch in the solar plexus as the melody is beautiful and has 5 minutes of quiet in the déoulé album.
To my mind, 'Big Freeze' and doubled his incisive riff tempo emerges as the favorite track of the moment.
Up to this point the 2nd `law 'demonstrates the talent of the trio with Matt Bellamy's voice that fits every genre.
But again, surprise! Chris Wolstenholme 2 performer of his own compositions.
This works great for `Save Me ', a little less in` Liquid State'. Good effort.
The album is concluded by the diptych `The 2nd Law '. Part 1 'Unsustainable' apocalyptic with the robotic voice and a perfect 2nd post-apocalyptic melodic part.
In short, Muse assumes continuity without plagiarizing while bringing some novelty. We can always find faults or annoy a sometimes excessive grandiloquence. Trifles all this, `the 2nd law 'erase some possible reprimands from the 4th listening.
Beautiful album you have to discover. Lucky you!
Fabien Jacquot