Just found this on Tumblr. Google-Translated from Swiss:
Muse and "The 2nd Law" - The Will to megalomania
The name is from the beginning of the band Muse for epic guitar music and pathos in high doses. Consistently the three Englishmen screws with every album in the escalation screw towards pop rock royalty. This is also in "The 2nd Law" of the case, the sixth studio album.
A trend that has been in "The Resistance" set up in 2009, will be continued on "The 2nd Law": The Queenisierung of Muse. Matthew Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard play a modern interpretation of glam rock, as you have never heard in the seventies and early eighties of Queen, one of the few rock bands that were really glamorous.
Sometimes steals singer Bellamy even blatantly individual harmony runs the unforgettable Queen frontman Freddie Mercury (specifically from "Do not stop me now"). But another trend can hear on "The 2nd Law": the tendency to be more spherical pop à la U2. Once even a flash of true-Edge guitar. Bellamy & Co. master the perfect imitation. Talent borrows, genius steals.
Otherwise, the album is solid, but certainly not a new milestone in rock music. The track "us" carries unique members of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" and somewhere has still a bit of James Bond hidden. Perhaps the title track to "Skyfall", the new movie about the British super agent? It would be conceivable.
Here and there, the songs have lengths, but Muse are far away from the 3:30 format. Also noteworthy: Even they can not seem to deny the trend Dubstep elements incorporate into their songs. And bassist Wolstenholme sings on two songs "Save Me" and "Liquid State" - the second a little more convincing than the first.
Muse - "The 2nd Law" appears at 28.09. in Switzerland via Warner Music.