Muse's "The Wow! Signal" review: A band 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 have doubled down on the "more is more" approach — dabbling in EDM and riding pop culture trends — while losing the poise that once balanced their pomp and ceremony. The piece references the band's own lyrics about supermassive black holes to metaphorically describe their creative collapse.
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· 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: dabbling in whomping EDM, hopping on the Stranger Things bandwagon
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