![]() ![]() Bellamy had latched onto the idea of the inevitability of energy depletion. Inspired by watching Wonders Of The Universe, a TV show hosted by the English physicist Professor Brian Cox. It didn’t take long for fans to discover that the album’s title was a reference to the second law of thermodynamics. ![]() “I got interested in reading a bit about energy, reading a bit about how it works” ![]() If that didn’t get Muse fans’ synapses firing, nothing would. With peculiar tendrils splayed like a neon-coloured jellyfish, the cover was a photograph of the neurological circuitry of the human brain taken by The Human Connectome Project. Keen to explore themes of human struggle and other big-question ideas more than ever, Muse revealed the artwork for The 2nd Law in late July. “It’s not something we just did for the Olympics.” Speaking of the song’s deeper meaning, Matt Bellamy described Survival as “getting into the brutality of what that is, to survive against whatever, what it is that drives us to fight, what drives us to want to evolve and grow forward”. Charting at No.22 in the UK, Survival fired the starting gun on the band’s sprint towards their next album.įull of uptempo pomposity and Matt Bellamy’s gold-star falsetto, Survival made Dominic Howard particularly proud. The brilliantly bombastic result, Survival, was released as a single in June 2012, surprising listeners as it builds from a jaunty piano riff, accompanied with operatic backing singers, before exploding into an over-the-top rocker as if sung by an athlete with a lust for victory (“Race, life’s a race/That I’m gonna win”). “It’s a proper Muse song, it’s not something we just did for the Olympics”Īs the Olympic Games were set to be hosted in London later that summer, Muse were granted the honour of creating an official song to mark the occasion. Like cowboys riding into the heart of the Wild West, Muse were back on the horse and ready to conquer the world again. Though he was clearly joking, it is true to say that The 2nd Law offered fans something very different, mixing the alt-rock bombast that had placed Muse among the best 2000s musicians with electronic influences courtesy of Bellamy’s newly-purchased Kitara synth-guitar. Recording in AIR Studios, in London, and EastWest, in Los Angeles, the group diversified their sound more than ever before, with Matt Bellamy throwing some misdirection at music journalists by describing Muse’s new album as a “Christian gangsta-rap jazz odyssey, with some ambient rebellious dubstep and face-melting metal flamenco cowboy psychedelia”. ![]()
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