![]() And to round up the review of Matt's guitar skills on the album, we have to return to Invincible which, for what I think is a first, features a 2-handed tap solo. Matt uses a simple riff which shows that while Muse are rather showy, they can utilize simplicity. ![]() Not to mention Assassin which is the old heavy, angry Muse brimming with passion once again. ![]() As well as this, Matt continues to use that counter-tenor range to it's full extent, whether it be his wails at the beginning of Knights of Cydonia or the more soothing high end of his vocal range on Map Of The Problematique, Matt continues to shine time and time again vocallyīut, as ever, Matt's guitar skills shine long after the rest of his uses burn out, and this time, he's stepped it up an notch, Knights of Cydonia is a festival of techniques which, while they've been used by Muse in the past, haven't been used in the same way, in the two minute long introduction, Matt uses tremolo picking and his trusty Floyd rose tremolo bar to their full potential. Opening track Take a Bow is a synth fuelled rally cry, while Invincible utilizes a well set balance by having synth dependent verses and guitar orientated choruses, which adds up well. but this isn't the only dramatic change in the band's approach, Matt Bellamy has begun to delve deeper into what is, arguably, the band's strongest, yet most untapped resource, the synths. Matt Bellamy has found something deep inside himself that's allowed him to write less depressing songs, which is one of the main differences, Muse's last 3 albums have had a rather dark aura about them, like Matt, Dom and Chris were prophets speaking about the end of our age and the corruption of governments (see The Small Print from Absolutionīut on this album the lyrics have got a real burst of optimism, with Invincible having the most optimistic lyrics of all And tonight we can truly say, Together we're invincible. However, this time, Muse have changed their sound and sometimes, rather dramaticallyīut now, the best part of 3 years after the release of Absolution, and Muse are back with Black Holes and Revelations the band's 4th studio album, and things have changed a bit for the Devon boys. But in the past, the good has always outweighed the bad, sometimes, more convincingly than others. But with that, I also thought Muse had two consistent faults in their albums, one of them, was a weak closing track, with the exception of Origin of Symmetry's closing track, Megalomania and the other, which I, personally found rather annoying, was Matt Bellamy not utilising the synths to their full potential. ![]() I've always been entranced by Matt Bellamy's haunting vocal range, which is quite possibly more versatile than a Swiss army knife. For some, they've simply "sold out", or, to have done something so drastic, the music focuses on the experimentation, but has none of the qualities that the band have embraced previously. This has been known to have disastrous consequences in both the media, and fan circles. There are times, where no matter what style of music a band does, that the band will decide to tweak their sound. ![]()
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