Wednesday Sounds - The Resistance

I love Muse. I've been a fan of them for a long time. And one of the reasons I like this band so much is because of their capacity to surprise me with new rhythms and new experimental sounds every album. The Resistance is Muse's greatest example of that. After Black Holes and Revelations, Muse try a new sonority that makes this album an original masterpiece. With simple yet detailful musics like United States Of Eurasia, songs with prologue and brilliant crescendos with great vocals, Muse give us an album that constantly reminds me of Queen's A Night At the Opera, for its catchy lyrics and masterfully composed tunes. And while we still get songs like Uprising and MK Ultra that are classic Muse all the way, we have also Undisclosed Desires, a small step into electronic that might be a prelude for things to come. Finally we are met with Exogenesis, a genius three-parter composition that reminds us that music these days doesn't always have to sound the same and that originality is not dead. It's a final stroke of genius that makes of this album one of the best of this year, and while the die-hard fanbase might argue that they wanted more of the same, nobody can deny Muse didn't put out one hell of an album.


9/10