Matt Bellamy’s finally cracked. We all thought he was always a little odd, but it seems all these years of trying to be the lovechild of Freddie Mercury and Thom Yorke have left his mind an incomprehensible mash of bizarre ideas. Matt, if you want to write an orchestral suite, or a symphonic film score, then go for it. If you want to do the whole metal/dubstep crossover, then be like Korn and actually work with Skrillex, rather than trying to convince everyone you’re still staying true to yourselves by claiming to play the bassline on guitars with a series of killswitches. If you want to show everyone how environmentally aware and politically active you are, then actually go out and do something, don’t just make a pseudo-moral video about energy consumption narrated by a fake newsreader reciting the second law of thermodynamics. And for the love of god, if you insist on having a drop in the middle of your song, don’t have a ridiculously infantile looking computerized robot ‘sing’ your bassline/chrous. To be honest, it probably wouldn’t be so bad if Muse hadn’t have released ‘Unsustainable’ as a standalone track, but it’s so schizophrenic that it doesn’t even work as a song. It might provoke some reaction live, but it’s just not cogent enough to be on an album.
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By Alex Throssell
Dance Yrself Clean
