Muse- The 2nd Law

I am an absolute Muse fan and I love them implicitly and infinitely- they could release some total tosh and I'd still be crazy about it. Isn't that a reason to assume my point of view is biased...?

After listening to Muse's pieces for about 7 years, I can easily tell the difference between each of the album. Focusing on the Album Six, The 2nd Law, Muse brings a whole new value. Bellamy jokingly described the album as a "christian gangsta rap jazz odyssey, with some ambient rebellious dubstep and face-melting metal flamenco cowboy psychedelia" on his Twitter account. Well, he didn't exaggerate. 

Themes that became an inspiration while creating it were the global  economic collapse, climate change and the laws of thermodynamics- specifically, as per album title, the second law- one that says no system can grow without energy coming into it. In media there's that constant talk of growth and it seems like we're in denial of the obvious fact that we're actually hitting the ceiling now. On the other hand, it requires the strength of society and this is what is almost celebrated in certain song, such as Survival. But right now you can really see that we're facing the collapse of it all- we seem always to go in contrary to the laws of science. But aren't Muse themselves symptomatic of man's expansionist logic? Bigger, broader, more insane? Yes, and in fact, that's kind of what Muse  is expressing with the whole album.

Track list:

• Supremacy

• Madness

the second single; according to NME, features influences which draw from Queen's "I Want to Break Free" and David Bowie's "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps" album

• Panic Station

Prince-ly '80s funk, complete with slap bass, horns, but a riff akin to INXS's Suicide Blonde; parts of the track resemble soundtrack extracts from a Matrix-style sci-fi movie blockbuster

• Prelude
• Survival

was the first album's single and served as the official song of the London 2012 Olympics Games; marks a whole new outer limit of in Muse's career of extremes with its Bohemian Rhapsody-style mega-rock explosions and apocalyptic Dies Irae choral daftness.The climax, where Bellamy hits an eye-watering falsetto peak, is almost a comedy moment (even to the man who sang it!)

• Follow Me

Matt Bellamy stated that the song was written about his newborn son, Bingham. And the beat you can hear in the background is Bing's actual heartbeat! Sooo sweet of Matt *-* 

• Animals
• Explorers
• Big Freeze
• Save Me
• Liquid State

Both Save Me and Liquid State were written and sung by Chris Wolstenholme; these two are telling the story of Chris' battle with alcoholism- pointedly entitled...

• The 2nd Law: Unsustainable

Perfect concert opening (checked live). Gives a bit of an adrenaline rush with its, so to call, dubstep-guitar-made sounds; it was stated that dubstep producer Skrillex was and influence when writing it;

 In this track the second law of thermodynamics is quoted, as follows:

"All natural and technological processes proceed in such a way that the availability of the remaining energy decreases. In all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves an isolated system, the entropy of that system increases. Energy continuously flows from being concentrated, to becoming dispersed, spread out, wasted, and useless. New energy cannot be created and high-grade energy is being destroyed."

• The 2nd Law: Isolated System

I thought they can't get any more disco-metal-opera-drama after "Resistance" but... Well, Muse, you keep on surprising me, I just can't get bored with new releases!