At a preview listening at the Planetarium, its space rock wonders roared by accompanied by a dazzling tour of the Milky Way beamed onto the dome screen, a perfect audio-visual combination akin to listening to Slipknot’s ‘Iowa’ in an actual abattoir. Plus, if ‘Invincible’ had been the UK’s Olympic song, we’d have won every gold going.Īs the bloke who turned up on Take Me Out dressed as Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show preparing to conduct the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra found to his cost, first impressions count, and my first impression of ‘Absolution’ was unbeatable. With ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ and ‘Starlight’ as its chart-bothering calling cards, ‘Black Holes…’ tackled energy depletion, political misdirection, war and, um, jousting Martians with a rigorous rock attack and one eye on the dancefloor. Muse’s most solid and focused pop collection, clocking in at 45 minutes including the gargantuan gallop into radiant ridiculousness that is ‘Knights Of Cydonia’. Classic Muse tropes of oppression, subversion and escape came together into a rounded narrative concept, which Muse indulged to thoroughly that they came out needed a bright neon antidote. The most cohesive of Muse’s recent output, ‘Drones’ came into its own on the tech-blitz tour, with ‘Mercy’ becoming a bona fide set-closing anthem, ‘Psycho’ a space rock pile-driver and ‘The Globalist’ an evocative epic worth flying a gigantic inflatable through the middle of.
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