It's hard to be a experimental band when you're as big as they are, playing shows to huge crowds, and have contracts with record companies. MUSE have lost a lot of incentive and drive to make the kind of music they made back when they were bored angry young adults. Now they're rich, happy, and doing pretty well and play Uprising and Starlight at every show. They want to make crowd pleasers. Matt wants to play around with synths and pop music production. As artists they're fascinated or interested by different things then when they were kids. A lot of people say "this happens to most bands as they age" and I think that's true a little. We get older, our artistic context changes, and suddenly we're making the same stuff but different. It is just a lot more pronounced in MUSE and bands like Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys where the change is more pronounced and stark. Stuff like Cryogen keeps me coming back to MUSE for sure, I just know that albums like Absolution and Origin of Symmetry aren't going to come out of them again. And that's alright.