MUSE - The 2nd Law

[Zwanling]

A mi me parecen títulos un poco genéricos, no me flipa.

[Dagger]

Bueno, pues el disco se retrasa hasta el 1 de octubre. El primer single sale el día 20 de agosto y será "Madness".

La portada de The 2nd Law:

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Viene de esto:
http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/

[Juanchu]

La portada la fueron mostrando en twitter completandola poco a poco (tipico de ellos xd) asi que cuando postearon la primera imagen yo pensaba que eso era la portada. Y me molaba un monton, parece un angel o algo asi xD luego el resultado final ya no me gusta tanto.

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Y en este canal de youtube se han filtrado una serie de entrevistas al grupo, probablemente sacadas del dvd de la edicion especial o algo asi, en las que hablan de cada cancion. Me da pereza verlos todos, pero he visto madness y dicen que sera muy "simple" y un poco electronica. Luego hay dos escritas por chris en las que canta el, y segun dicen los que ya han oido el disco la voz de chris recuerda un poco a la de maynard xD y en la cancion follow me matt grabó el latido del corazon de su hijo cuando aun no habia nacido y lo usa en el principio de la cancion. En fin, ya queda menos 

[Dagger]

A mí me ha dado por leer un poco de las descripciones y los comentarios de la banda sobre las canciones, y me he puesto palot palot con todo.

Y había leído lo del par de canciones escritas por Dom, pero lo de que las canta me ha dejado shockeado. Muy interesante. Y joder, cómo suena todo. Pego esto:

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'Supremacy' sees the band going to "absurd levels", according to Matt. Spiralling swamp blues of the track builds to a climax of orchestral hysteria as Matt orates a terrifying scene of mankind losing its supremacy over the Earth as "the seas have risen up" and energy shortages cause global desperation.
No real structure, sometimes reminds of the “Kashmir” by Led Zeppelin with its guitar riff and its symphonic orchestration.

'Madness' is an electronic cross between 'I Want To Break Free' and 'Faith'. "You've had a fight with your girlfriend and she goes off to her mum's house for the day and you're on your own going: "What did I say?"" says Matt, describing the song's inspiration. "I'm sure a lot of blokes have that experience in the early stages of relationships where you go: "Yeah, she's right, isn't she?".
A calm, languorous and sweet song, it’s surprising to find this one that early in the tracklist according to the journalist. The electronic arrangements really remind of Depeche Mode, just like in Undisclosed Desires.

'Panic Station'. According to Matt, in the Radio 1 interview after 'Survival', this track features brass. Muse have cited Prince as the inspiration for the 80's effects on the track. The song is described as having a "hysteric" feel, which is reflected in demented 80's elements such as backwards 'Let's Dance' drumbeats and riffs reminiscent of INXS' 'Suicide Blonde'. It features more gasping vocals from Matt. "That's 'Scary Monsters' Bowie meets Primus", says Matt. "Doing a funk track was for us remembering Rush and Primus, the more slap-bass things we liked." "Those big, spacious, wet, massive drum sounds," adds Dom. "It started to conjure up memories of songs we'd listened to or grew up on in the 80's by Prince and Stevie Wonder and we wanted to take it in that direction."
“Bounding bass” à la Red Hot Chili Peppers. Both funk and disco (Muse dared using brass), this song is very likely to become a single. Hearing it on the radio in a few months wouldn’t be surprising.

'Prelude' + 'Survival'.

'Follow Me'. The beginning of the track features Bingham Bellamy's heartbeat. According to Bellamy, the song will be about 'having a baby and that'. This was later confirmed in an NME article where the song was described as Matt's 'ode to fatherhood.
Starting with some soft keyboard along with a voice echoing, the song intensifies and builds into an almost dancefloor rythm with a buzzing bass. This track is out of the ordinary.

'Animals'. In an NME article the song was described as being "flamenco-flecked". When earlier describing the album on twitter Matt was possibly referring to 'Animals' as 'face melting metal flamenco cowboy psychedelia'.
'Animals' is about economies collapsing under the weight of stock market savagery, of industries desperate to "advertise, franchise… kill the competition", and of the greed of bankers who Matt claims should "kill yourself, come on and do us all a favour". Matt says: "This song is conjuring up the rawest form of that feeling of "look what humans are capable of doing, it's shocking.'"
Quite a fast tempo at the beginning, which makes one expect a flood of riffs… but that never happens. The song sometimes reminds of Radiohead, gets a little heavier with a guitar solo which turns out to be pretty short in fact. The “damb squib” of the album.

'Explorers'. An songying crops and abused nature, inspired by Matt's concerns of industrial greed and business monopolies. 'Explorers' is drenched in the sense of not feeling you belong on your own planet. Very nearly called 'Alien Explorers', Matt claimed, but "not in the way of aliens from outer space but in the way of feeling like an alien on your own planet. It's about the intense desire to grow and expand - at some point nature will become the minority. I'm not sure if I'm really coming from an environmental thing - [Explorers] is where I'm singing about my views on property rights. The idea that corporations can own vast tracts of foreign countries. I'm not sure if the deal went through but, I think it was in Paraguay or Uraguay, the Bush family bought something like a million acres of land, which underneath contains the biggest natural water reservoir in South America. At some point there has to be someone who says: 'That's not right.'. Can BP buy Nigeria? At the moment they can. They could buy it and they kick all the natives out, shoot them down or whatever and just say: "We own this now"."
Matt’s vocal signature shoots right in the middle from the beginning, a ballade in the style of Blackout. “Can you free me from this world”, Matt sings on this track which turns out to be the less surprising of the album.

In an NME article 'Big Freeze' was described as 'stadium stomp' and being about the world being in "Meltdown".
A surprising song, very funky and at the same time, very 'Musey'. As puzzling as Panic Station. A really funk track. The result is striking, although we can still hear Muse’s style on this track which could become a single as well.

'Save Me' is one of two songs on the album written by Chris about his alcoholism, the other being 'Liquid State'. He described the song as being about 'having the family, the wife and the kids who, despite all the crap that I've put them through, at the end of it you realise they're still there and they're the ones who pulled you through'. According to an NME article it is the first song with Chris on main vocal duty, along with 'Liquid State'. Chris said of this, 'I don't think I expected to sing it when I showed it to the other guys, but it was approached with a pretty open mind. They felt it was a big step for the band'. Matt added, 'I was into it because they were songs that were personal to him. It's like this new guy - the last time I remember meeting this guy was about ten years ago. He seems to be so energised about everything. I think he almost feels like he's woken up'.
The first split in the album. The transition is a little bit surprising as Chris’ voice is really different from Matt’s (Chris sings much lower).

'Liquid State' is one of two songs on the album written by Chris about his struggle with alcoholism, the other being 'Save Me'. Chris said the song was 'written about the person you become when you're intoxicated and how the two of them are having this fight inside of you and it tears you apart'.
With no doubt the rockiest track on the album. Chris’ voice almost sounds like Maynard James Keenan’s sometimes (the singer of Tool).

'The 2nd Law: Unsustainable'. Doom-drenched operas full of newsreel reports from the end of civilisation, rapping Terminators, trumpets inflating like lifeboats and Exorcist piano pulses tinkling goodbye to the globe. "It's the noise of humanity on a tiny planet in the middle of nothing," says Matt. "Hanging around space would be so peaceful and quiet and suddenly you come to this little blip that's f-----g chaos! I see it as drifting away from the planet and going into the peacefulness of what actually is gonna happen at the end of it all, which is nothingness."[1]
When earlier describing the album on twitter Matt was possibly referring to 'The 2nd Law: Unsustainable' as 'ambient rebellious dubstep'. The piece starts with an orchestral section with choral emphasis, that gradually builds up to a climax. During a build up, a female voice reads the above text, at the end of which, a heavily effected, vocoder-style voice enters with the word 'unsustainable'. A dubstep-style section follows, utilising pick scrapes, Twisty Kaoss Pad, KAOSS Pad manipulations and other sounds typical of Bellamy's guitar style, backed with drums and bass and fragmented repetitions of the word 'unsustainable'.
The song's wobble bass reminds of Skrillex' wobble bass on the song Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.
Everyone already knows this first part (from the teaser of the album). Only sequence influenced by dubstep in the album.

'The 2nd Law: Isolated System'. Trumpets inflating like lifeboats and Exorcist piano pulses tinkling goodbye to the globe. "It's the noise of humanity on a tiny planet in the middle of nothing," says Matt. "Hanging around space would be so peaceful and quiet and suddenly you come to this little blip that's f-----g chaos! I see it as drifting away from the planet and going into the peacefulness of what actually is gonna happen at the end of it all, which is nothingness."
Starts slowly, and then intensifies. No singing but a lot of keyboard. The song ends with a female voice in a loop.

[Zwanling]

¿La portada del nuevo Muse es el plumero mágico de la teletienda?

Dagger, tomaté un anti-hype que luego te va a sentar mal el viaje.

[Dagger]

Dagger, tomaté un anti-hype que luego te va a sentar mal el viaje.

Tu carencia de fe me resulta molesta, Zwanling. ;P

Nada, nada, después de un disco ligeramente inferior al anterior, ahora toca subir de escalón. Esto es hype con fundamento.

[Zwanling]

Dagger, tomaté un anti-hype que luego te va a sentar mal el viaje.

Tu carencia de fe me resulta molesta, Zwanling. ;P

Nada, nada, después de un disco ligeramente inferior al anterior, ahora toca subir de escalón. Esto es hype con fundamento.

A pesar de tu noble referencia al lado oscuro, tengo que decir que el fundamento lo veo cogido con pinzas, del disco tenemos un trailer chapucero y una canción molona pero floja y con poca sustancia.

[Legolas-I]

Nada, nada, después de un disco ligeramente inferior al anterior, ahora toca subir de escalón. Esto es hype con fundamento.

Eufemismo de que el The Resistance fue un mojonzaco tremendo. Ya se pueden esmerar, que tienen la cartilla sucia...

[Dagger]

Nada, nada, después de un disco ligeramente inferior al anterior, ahora toca subir de escalón. Esto es hype con fundamento.

Eufemismo de que el The Resistance fue un mojonzaco tremendo. Ya se pueden esmerar, que tienen la cartilla sucia...

En absoluto es un eufemismo lo mío. Lo tuyo sí que es una hipérbole. xd Exogenesis vale por sí sola por todo un álbum, lo tengo más que claro, pero es que también hay otras como MK Ultra, Resistance o Eurasia.

No está a la altura del Black Holes, simplemente.

[Legolas-I]

No está a la altura del Black Holes, simplemente.

Si es peor que el BH&R y éste es peor que el Showbiz, y éste peor que el Absolution y el OOS... Para el nivel de Muse, el Resistance es un pestiño. A algunos le puede atraer más o menos.. Sí, es comprensible que haya gente que le guste el disco, no en vano hay gente que ve películas de Meg Ryan, así que todo es posible Y vale, Exogenesis está muy bien pero no consigue que llegue al nivel de hasta la fecha el disco menos bueno de Muse.

Un disco con Guiding Light, Undisclosed Desires, I Belong To You, etc... Por dios, más aburrido no puede ser.

[Dagger]

Sí, es comprensible que haya gente que le guste el disco, no en vano hay gente que ve películas de Meg Ryan, así que todo es posible

¬¬ Joe Contra el Volcán es un referente para mí, qué pasa.

Un disco con Guiding Light, Undisclosed Desires, I Belong To You, etc... Por dios, más aburrido no puede ser.

Si no te digo que no, son canciones menores, y lastran un disco con un buen concepto pero que queda desdibujado.
Pero no me pongas en el foro que un disco de Muse es un mojonzaco. Algo así me lo dices A LA CARA. 

[Legolas-I]

Sí, es comprensible que haya gente que le guste el disco, no en vano hay gente que ve películas de Meg Ryan, así que todo es posible

¬¬ Joe Contra el Volcán es un referente para mí, qué pasa.

Un disco con Guiding Light, Undisclosed Desires, I Belong To You, etc... Por dios, más aburrido no puede ser.

Si no te digo que no, son canciones menores, y lastran un disco con un buen concepto pero que queda desdibujado.
Pero no me pongas en el foro que un disco de Muse es un mojonzaco. Algo así me lo dices A LA CARA. 

No hagas la patada giratoria, que entre tu altura y la ausencia de la mía sólo puede terminar de una manera para mí

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De todas formas, tengo el disco original y lo escuché bastante en su día... E incluso las más "Museras" del disco (MK Ultra, Unnatural Selection) desde mi punto de vista se quedan a medio camino. Es un poco un quiero y no puedo. Que sí, que el concepto está muy bien, la voz está perfecta pero como dirían los Worms cuando se te pasa el turno sin hacer nada...

ABURRIMIENTO.

Y para mí que un disco de Muse sea aburrido=Mojón. Y esto te lo digo aquí y en la calle (por si acaso me echaré al bolsillo un protector dental x'D)

PD: Tremendo lo de Joe Contra el Volcán, carcajada estruendosa que me ha salido del alma jajaja (y totalmente respetable, of course )

[Dagger]

El The Resistance es el disco de Muse que menos he escuchado (=menos me ha enganchado), a ti no te puedo mentir. Espero un álbum mucho mejor, así que ojalá los dos quedemos contentos. ^^

OT

PD: Tremendo lo de Joe Contra el Volcán, carcajada estruendosa que me ha salido del alma jajaja (y totalmente respetable, of course )

xd Es una peli que da muy buen rollo. Un día de estos le pegaré un repasito.

[Juanchu]

Unsustainable, la de dubstep, entera. Cuando matt grita mola, pero el resto es horrible 

[Zwanling]

Espero que sea la peor de disco con mucha diferencia, por que si no va a ser un puto desperdicio, no hay en todo el resistance un tema tan malo, ni de cerca, solo se la puede otorgar que no es demasiado larga.