There comes a point where you feel like it’s better to have no music than do something shit.įor the last couple of albums, we’ve never really felt like we’ve been in any sort of mental rush, and with this album, we didn’t really know what we were doing. What you don’t wanna do is make an album that you feel like you’re rushed into making. Inevitably, as you get older, and with things like having children - general personal life stuff - it’s very hard to combine all those things and still make really great music. Once you feel like you’ve got to a certain level, you also have to think about the quality of the music that you’re making. There was a bit more of an urgency in the early days, building momentum and not wanting to stop. You don’t want to do the initial hard work and then everyone forget that you exist.
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It’s a difficult one - sometimes there have been certain albums where… in the early days, going from ‘Showbiz’ to ‘Origin ’, we definitely felt like a new album needed to come out pretty quick, building the foundations with the first album and seeing this opportunity there and having to crack on. It was a little bit more natural on this album. Listen to ‘Simulation Theory’ and read the interview below. With the album out now, and a UK and European stadium tour set for next year, we hopped on the phone with bassist Chris Wolstenholme to chat ‘Simulation Theory’, the plans for said tour - spoiler alert: it’s set to be very theatrical - the place of the album as a format in 2018, and if any idea is too ridiculous, even for Muse.
Single ‘The Dark Side’ is a suitably groovy aside from the album’s relative lack of danceability, and by the time you’ve stopped laughing at the frankly jaw-dropping robotic intro to ‘Propaganda’, you realise you’re toe-tapping to its ‘80s-indebted verse without even realising.” “The chugging intro of ‘Algorithm’ is perfect for walking out to at a sold-out Wembley Stadium to, and it’s clearly been written with exactly that in mind.
“Take a step back from the ins and outs of the record and ‘Simulation Theory’ stands as a ridiculous, bombastic stab of maximalism from one of the world’s biggest stadium rock bands,” we wrote in our review. A relentless stream of genre-melting behemoths, the album harbours as many twists and turns as it does jaw-dropping ‘…did they really do that?’ moments, and is as overblown and full-of-life as an album from the Devon trio should be. On new album ‘Simulation Theory’, Muse don’t dial down the ridiculousness one jot.
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