Bellamy answered a bunch of questions on Twitter tonight.
I was a little bummed that, when asked if the new album would have piano, he said there would be bits. Sounds like another album with no piano-driven songs. 
As great as they still were live last year when I saw them, it was a bummer that the section where he sits down at the piano for 2-4 songs seems to have gone by the wayside. Hopefully, it was just a Drones tour thing, but with there not likely to be any piano songs on the new album, I'd be surprised if they bring that section back live.
Muse are doing a lot of little things like that and they're starting to add up, for me.
Their by request sets were genuinely excellent, but they sort of feel like an apology for their increasingly-rote sets that I can't see going anywhere any time soon. Matt described Thought Contagion as "Fury II" - which it definitely bloody isn't.
There was a time when it felt like Muse were plugging directly into my brain and making a band just for me. I don't hate any of the new songs (and I think Dig Down is brilliant), but it feels like that genius has left them a little, lately. I'm definitely going to keep listening, but I don't know how much longer I'll be following every single movement.
I hear what you are saying. I became a fan right around when Black Holes and Revelations came out, and at the time, when I was knee deep in the honeymoon phase, as good as I thought Origin of Symmetry, Absolution and Black Holes all were, I thought they still had their masterpiece in them. Now, I am convinced that those three albums were as good as it will ever get with them, and that is not a bad thing at all. All three albums are tremendous and how many bands in the 21st century have had a 3-album run as good as that? Not many.
Now, unlike some Muse fans, I do not think that their songs have plummeted downhill since. No, none of the albums since are as great as those three, but they've all been, at worst, good. The Resistance was a good record; The 2nd Law was really, really good (tweak the running order and knock off a couple songs and it could have been great); Drones was really good. There are plenty of great Muse songs post-Black Holes: Uprising, The Resistance, Undisclosed Desires, I Belong to You, Madness, Survival, Follow Me, Explorers, Big Freeze, Isolated System, Dead Inside, Reapers, Defector, etc.
Do I think this year's forthcoming album will break their top 3? No, I do not, but so what? That is like expecting Dream Theater to top I&W, Awake or Scenes at this point. Not gonna happen, but Muse is still more than capable of giving us lots of good music, and that is what I fully expect.
I don't understand how you can get behind their new pseudo-pop music (and not even good at that) when you know what they used to be capable of.
Pseudo-pop? Come on, now. Muse has always written super catchy songs. This is not new.
Topic: Muse - v. Will of the People (rel Aug 26, 2022) (Read 207466 times)
