Muse's "The Wow! Signal" review: A band still collapsing under its own gravity
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Liam Inscoe-Jones
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A review of Muse's album "The Wow! Signal" that critiques the band's trajectory since 2009's The Resistance, arguing they've doubled down on excess and bombast. The review suggests the band has been collapsing under their own grandiosity, losing the poise that once balanced their pomp and ceremony.
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PitchforkMuse's "The Wow! Signal" review: A band still collapsing under its own gravitypitchfork.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledLike the supermassive black holes they once sang about, Muse, too, have been collapsing in on themselves thanks to their own ludicrous gravity.
The band always had plenty of pomp and ceremony but, at its best, that brashness was paired with a poise which made you feel like the ship was at least being steadied by an able captain.
Somewhere around the point of 2009's The Resistance, though, Muse really did double down on the assumption that more is more.
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