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New Born Lee

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  1. This has grown into such a guilty pleasure for me. :LOL: It's still bad but there's so many indulgent parts to it. I'll definitely be singing along if I ever see it live.

  2. I actually kinda enjoy it, to me it's just a straight forward rock song without any bombast or epic-ness, which i don't think I've heard from Muse in a while, obviously thats all subjective though..also the part where Matt sings "you can make this world WATCHEWWW WANTT" i was immediatley reminded of gerard way for some reason lol

     

    I get you there, there is a bit of Gerard Way about that bit. The whole sentiment of the song is pretty Danger Days really.

  3. Yeah that's the only kind of criticism the song got, right.

     

    Does "some" mean "all" now? :(

    It was a valid point directed as it was. It was cute; I laughed.

    Funnier than comparing the albums to fart noises, or replacing "r's with "w"s, for sure. :noey:

     

    I had to read this exchange several times before I understood it. :chuckle: I thought fabri was agreeing with me initially.

     

    I just find it so funny how some people are still like WHERE IS MY SONG STRUCTURE AND GUITAR at this stage. Like, they can't just keep it to 'I don't like this' or 'it isn't my thing' or 'i don't like this kind of music'. It's WHAT THE HELL I DON'T LIKE CHANGE.

  4. Dead Inside - 7/10

     

    It's grown on me since I first heard it. I appreciate how stripped back it is, and it's got a good chorus and breakdown. It's not the most rousing but it's a solid song, a good album track.

     

    Psycho - 5/10

     

    Psycho is a fun crowd-pleaser live but in studio it's just SO LAME. The drill sergeant ruins most of the appeal of the song, it's Pink Floyd levels of painfully forced. Other than that it's too long and so one-note.

     

    Mercy - 6/10

     

    Only really noticing now that there's usually a pop track at track 3 on every album. I have mixed feelings about Mercy. On one hand, I like how heavy the guitars are and I think it's a pretty solid pop song, and the lyrics are vague enough to not be too distracting. That said, it's pretty derivative and the little chimes are just too Starlight/Coldplay-esque for me to take the song seriously.

     

    Reapers - 9/10

     

    Muse seem born to dabble in classic rock. It completely suits how OTT and indulgent their style is. This song is all over the place in the best possible way, there's always something going on and there's a marvellous freedom about it. A really wonderful surprise to see them take on a new genre and ace it.

     

    The Handler - 8/10

     

    I'm with the people that wish the drums were further forward in the mix, they're good but they just beg to be heard more. That said, I like how dark this song is, and it uses the music to sound dark, the lyrics seem less important. That's what Absolution did so well and it continues to work well here, complete with an electro breakdown. It threatens with a bit of melodrama at the end but it doesn't ruin the song.

     

    Defector - 9/10

     

    Best song on the album for me. In this song, everything about Drones works. It's so straightforward, uplifting and fun. The lyrics are silly, but in this case it actually helps, it's so clearly for the sake of fun and not for the sake of the concept. "Your blood is blue, and your mind's turned green, and your belly is all YELLLL-LLLOOWWW" :LOL: It's so fun to sing to! Great uplifting solo as well, this should be great live. (I should also mention that, unlike the stupid fecking Drill Sergeant, JFK kinda works here because well, it's not some cheesy imitator actor pushing some idea Matt got from a movie hard, it's freaking JFK, he's consistently relevant even out of context)

     

    Revolt - 5/10

     

    Aaargh. THE CHEESE. Drones: The Musical. I weirdly like the chorus, even though it's maddeningly familiar, but these verses are too much. It's at this point the album goes from indulgent fun to just ridiculous.

     

    Aftermath. - 4/10

     

    Lyrically woeful, and as a slow song you really pay attention to those lyrics. It really just gets worse as it goes on. The 'from this moment' chorus makes it sound like some earworm R&B ballad. It's so weird. None of it works.

     

    The Globalist - 5/10

     

    It builds very slowly, threatens to climax with an isolated riff that's begging to be build upon...and then you wonder where the climax was. And suddenly the song is back to slow crooning. The outro is actually reasonably nice...but it just goes nowhere. Why was this ten minutes long? It's not a careful, meditative track like Exogenesis or Isolated System, and it's not a dramatic, proggy alt-rock track like Citizen Erased. It's just kinda nothing.

     

    Drones - 8/10

     

    This made me grin all over my face. A Gregorian chant? Really, a Gregorian chant, Muse? That's what I was saying to myself. But I loved it. It was silly, so silly, but it was also delightfully weird, rather nicely made really and focused on one idea instead of the sprawling mess before it. It suited the idea of the album too!

     

    Overall:

    Such a mixed bag, but overall seeing as I'd heard the first 6 tracks already, a disappointment. Those first 6 tracks had me genuinely positive about the album but I wasn't expecting those last 3 tracks to be such messes. Especially underwhelming was the 10-minute track which just seemed so pointless. I was hoping the album concept and the producer would help focus Muse a bit, and there's evidence of that in places. But for the third album in a row it seems, they simply can't rein it in. 6/10

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