Tag Archives: Muse

Muse, Simulation Theory. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

You should never blame a set of artists for wanting to change direction in how their work is viewed, everything must adapt, all must be like the waves, the tide and the shifting sands, secrets must reveal themselves, unknown coves must explored, and yet the audience must also understand that in the pursuit of change, of natural revolution, the distinction between the admiration of what lay before and the possible intrigue of what lays ahead can reveal a chasm, an almost unbridgeable divide -it is only a theory, but one that can cause problems down the line when the artist turns their head back to what went before.

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Muse, Gig Review. The Hydro, Glasgow.

Muse in Glasgow, April 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You cannot fault the effort that Muse put into their show, the production values are simply out of this world, the sound magnificent and the extras that make it always worth attending one of their performances just something to behold with slight awe. What can let it down as you watch the whole evening unfold is when the audience don’t seem to want to join in the fun and the absolute pleasure until very late in the day; the odd mosh pit opening aside, until the old storming favourite of Time Is Running Out presented itself to the crowd, there was hardly a peep of mass voice joining in.

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(438 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Muse, Drones. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Who is really controlling who? That may as well be the burning question as Muse release their latest album, Drones, onto Britain’s music lovers’ ears. A question that gets murkier day by day, that gets lost in the very society which at times is preoccupied with being shown the way rather than living it and making their own mistakes, to err is after all Human, to do nothing is be an echo of one’s former self, the whisper of a murmur wrapped in a drone.

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(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Muse, Absolution. 10th Anniversary Retrospective.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Arguably it could be said that Absolution, Muse’s third studio album, was the recording that announced the band onto the wider world and certainly from the moment Absolution was released they haven’t looked back.

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(1031 words, estimated 4:07 mins reading time)

Muse, The 2nd Law. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating ***

There comes a time in a groups, hopefully distinguished career, where a listener may stop and think, well that was good but it wasn’t really as awesome as everybody raved on and on about. That might be the case with Muse’s sixth album The 2^nd Law.

One of the band’s great strengths over the last few albums is the absolute conviction that they have created something approaching unique, something nothing less than genuinely superb and out of this world. Even including Black Holes and Revelations into this equation, which after quite a few plays revealed an album that wasn’t quite up to scratch, full of pit falls and loosely tied together with some very appealing songs as Map of the Problematique and Invincible, it still suited the canon and the ways of Muse.

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(448 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Muse, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Muse at the Liverpool Echo. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Originally published by L.S. Media. November 6th 2009.

Remember, remember, Muse in November The unique brand of Devonshire rock I know of no reason Why Muse this season Will ever be forgot.

Who needs to stand in a cold, muddy field after it’s been raining all day watching a damp, half hearted fireworks display when one of the best bands recording in the modern era come to the Echo Arena and blow all the bands that have played there this year clean out of the Mersey. With a laser show that would make Pink Floyd seethe with envy and a strict but simple mantra to give the paying fans one of the best shows they will ever see in their lifetime.

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(386 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Muse, Gig Review. Lancashire County Cricket Ground. Manchester.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 4th 2010.

It seems that Muse can do no wrong. A sell out tour last year, the main headliners at the 40^th anniversary of Glastonbury and now a three night extravaganza in England which kicked off in Manchester at the fabled home of Lancashire County Cricket Club.

For those arriving for the four o’ clock opening, the sight that would have beheld them would have had them gasping at the enormity of the stage, something very rarely undertaken outside of a Genesis or Pink Floyd gig. From outside the ground it looked as though the LCCC had started work on yet another media centre or a pavilion to match the best grounds in the world. It certainly left the crowd in no doubt why the three gigs were a week apart.

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(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)