Music Review: Muse - Resistance

We've been fighting a long time. We are out numbered by machines. Working around the clock,without quit. Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are listening to this,you are the resistance. - John Connor, Terminator Salvation

Although this is Muse's fifth album, I hadn't discovered them until well after their 2006 effort, Black Holes and Revelations was out. That album is easily one of my favorite albums of all times, so it's not much of a shock to consider that The Resistance was one of my most anticipated albums of the year. But does it hold up? Here are some initial impressions:

"Uprising" - Love this song. It's a great opener, and definitely continues the popular Muse theme of paranoia. It could easily be part II of the Black Holes track "City of Delusion" and it is easily better than that song. The general theme of the album seems to be the freedom of the common man from the aristocracy, as well as being awesome to play at football games. Also mega bonus points to the band for the amazing cover art for the single (Teddy Bears!?!), and especially for riffing on the Doctor Who theme for the last 20 seconds of the song. 

Here's the video:

Muse |MTV Music

"Resistance" - Good song about love-as-freedom made at least 30% more awesome due to the background vocals during the chorus. 

"Undisclosed Desires" - A quirky ballad about wanting to be closer to someone. 

"United States of Eurasia" - If you like Queen, you will like this track. It easily could have come off their Jazz album, and in no universe is this a bad thing. It also takes musical cues from either Lawrence of Arabia or Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. While the lyrics may sound serious, this is absolutely the kind of overblown classical-influenced rock that has been missing from our pop charts lately (except for Coldplay, which doesn't have enough guitar to even be rock).

After "Collateral Damage," the drumbeats announce  "Guiding Light," a song about losing that person who is your beacon for life. 

"Unnatural Selection" sounds like a melding of their styles from Black Holes and 2001's Origin of Symmetry, though thematically fits here as a call to arms for the "resistance." A solid track, but not a standout. 

"MK Ultra" is one of my favorite tracks from the album, and is a perfect example of Bellamy & co's style: the blend of classical music with synthesizers and soaring guitars. 

"I Belong to You" returns to the love theme running through the album, making this one of the strangest love discs I've ever heard. I like it. And there's French at the end!

Ah, "Exogenesis." A sprawling 13-minute 'symphony' spreading across three tracks (note: the Rush fan in me just squealed) about humans settling space. What. Is. Not. To. Love. Bellamy has been working on this for years, and the craftsmanship shows. It's sprawling and epic, and they don't make them like this anymore. Not only that, but it fits in perfectly with the rest of the album. 

So I clearly love this album, though it isn't as mind-blowing as Black Holes. Easily one of my favorites so far this year. On one last pop culture note, I want to visit the alternate universe where Muse did the entire Watchmen soundtrack. Because how awesome would that be? 

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