<p>Muse are an English rock band who have got wide exposure recently as the band behind the official 2012 Olympics theme song.<br /><br /></p>.<p> It was formed by school friends Matthew Bellamy (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Christopher Wolstenholme (bass, vocals) and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion). ‘The 2nd Law’ is their sixth studio release.<br /><br />Supremacy stomps out with a monstrous guitar riff. Bellamy begins his vocals like a narrative, gradually working his way up to that patented hell-shriek. Madness, a stripped down track with electronic bass line, does not have much to demonstrate. Panic Station is an aggressive track with Bellamy screeching and some good riffs.<br /><br />Survival (Prelude) is the familiarly symphonic Muse music deployed before the follow-up track, Survival, the official 2012 Olympics theme song. The song stands on its own steam aided by a ‘play-to-the-gallery’ music-sweeping intro and screeching electric guitars and triumphant lyrics.<br /><br />Follow me is layered with synthesizer-like sound and flirts with dubstep. Animals has hypnotic guitar lines and a well-crafted ambience, but ends with what sounds like a prison riot in full swing. Explorers is a tender lullaby to Bellamy’s new-born son (from his wife Kate Hudson).<br /><br />Save Me is the first-ever Muse song sung by bassist Chris Wolstenholme, a song that could have been best avoided. However, Liquid State, the second of Wolstenholme’s songs is in the Muse tradition, but still does not stand out.<br /><br />The 2nd Law: Unsustainable has some skrillex sound and dubstep incorporated in it. The last track, The 2nd Law: Isolated System, is not what can be termed as a fitting finale, but that should not undermine their other good tracks.<br /></p>
<p>Muse are an English rock band who have got wide exposure recently as the band behind the official 2012 Olympics theme song.<br /><br /></p>.<p> It was formed by school friends Matthew Bellamy (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Christopher Wolstenholme (bass, vocals) and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion). ‘The 2nd Law’ is their sixth studio release.<br /><br />Supremacy stomps out with a monstrous guitar riff. Bellamy begins his vocals like a narrative, gradually working his way up to that patented hell-shriek. Madness, a stripped down track with electronic bass line, does not have much to demonstrate. Panic Station is an aggressive track with Bellamy screeching and some good riffs.<br /><br />Survival (Prelude) is the familiarly symphonic Muse music deployed before the follow-up track, Survival, the official 2012 Olympics theme song. The song stands on its own steam aided by a ‘play-to-the-gallery’ music-sweeping intro and screeching electric guitars and triumphant lyrics.<br /><br />Follow me is layered with synthesizer-like sound and flirts with dubstep. Animals has hypnotic guitar lines and a well-crafted ambience, but ends with what sounds like a prison riot in full swing. Explorers is a tender lullaby to Bellamy’s new-born son (from his wife Kate Hudson).<br /><br />Save Me is the first-ever Muse song sung by bassist Chris Wolstenholme, a song that could have been best avoided. However, Liquid State, the second of Wolstenholme’s songs is in the Muse tradition, but still does not stand out.<br /><br />The 2nd Law: Unsustainable has some skrillex sound and dubstep incorporated in it. The last track, The 2nd Law: Isolated System, is not what can be termed as a fitting finale, but that should not undermine their other good tracks.<br /></p>
