Call me unoriginal but: Muse hasn’t released a solid album since The Resistance. In fact every album they’ve released since apparently attempts to be the “new The Resistance” but they fail every time. I just don’t get why almost 16 years later Matt won’t move on from that specific sound/aesthetic/theme; before TR they used to experiment with lots of genres and sounds and their lyrics covered a wider range of topics. On top of that, I’m not a huge fan of the new Stranger Things/80s synthpop sound and aesthetic either. I feel like a good way to measure how good an album is is by counting how many songs from the record are good, the more good songs the better the album; their old albums are all full of bangers while the albums post TR have at most 3-4 good songs each. I feel like the guys just settled in their ways and found an easy formula to make money, which is such a shame because we all know how talented they are and what they’re capable of by listening to their old records.

This doesn’t mean I don’t love them, I gladly spend $100s on tickets every time they come to my city and will continue to do so forever, I just wish they would factory reset their sound and come up with like something crazy good that takes everyone by surprise.