What?: [I'm going to quit doing this bit, you've got Google]
Why?: Muse's back catalogue has always ended up in the $10 pile so they're easy to collect. I wouldn't have picked this up until after 2007 when I finally gave in and started enjoying this band.
Tell me more!:
Musically, Muse are everything I've ever asked for in a rock band. Their guitar riffs, repetitive, fast, melodic; their slightly electronic feel. I don't think they really kick it into gear and properly embrace the electronics until three years later when they release "Black Holes", but the hints are here.
I'm reminded of chip tunes, and perhaps this kind of guitar riffing (constant melodic runs with few gaps) was ingrained in my consciousness by years of playing Commodore 64 games, whose composers were heavily influenced by 70s prog.
I avoided Muse for so long because the vocals are hard to listen to for a full album. Bellamy can sing, but somehow there just isn't enough variety in his voice, at least not in these early albums.
And the same goes for the music. Song by song I like their stuff, but on a full album... maybe it's the production... but it all runs into each other.
5/10
