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Could anyone else barely hear Matt singing during the second half of Mercy? No idea what was up there.
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I do like this song, but I've decided it would be infinitely better if it just had more of the first few minutes, and less of the last few.
100%
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I'm waiting for the Pitchfork review now. They hate muse aha. The better could be a 6 but I doubt about it.
People keep saying this, yet it isn't true...
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It's not that harsh, is it? Mainly he just doesn't like the lyrics and honestly that's not something most people are going to argue with him too strongly about...
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Yeah I've heard of this for movies and games, but never heard of it for music. Certainly not positive-review-only embargoes.
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There is probably an embargo placed on negative reviews until the album is officially released, like they do with movies.
Does this happen with albums at all? I've never heard of this for music before.
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I'm gonna say we'll get some new songs tonight, maybe The Handler, Defector or Revolt.
More likely we get something like last night with some rotations tbh
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Just heard Revolt. What the fuck.
EDIT: I caught myself lip-syncing to it and now i hate myself.
So many people's responses to this song are summed up perfectly in this post
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What's this guys?
http://www.timeout.com/london/music/muse-drones-album-review
It is not even a review. I dunno, it's smth else.
"i know more about the world than you and let me prove it"
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can someone tell me WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK is going on in this song?
Relax.
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Was watching a periscope. Sounded really out of breath on Dead Inside. Again. (and bits of Hysteria too)
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Matt, hit a gym.
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Space Dementia, RBS or Isolated System. Take your pick.
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My guess is 80. Pitchfork is gonna definitely aim to bring that down, I don't know if The Needle Drop gets counted in that aggregate but if so then that probably will too.
Worth remembering that TR got a 5.9 from Pitchfork. In fact I thought both their TR and T2L reviews were pretty fair.
The City Blog review there is very good, btw.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/shortlist-album-reviews-muse-major-lazer-ben-salter-cosmic-psychos-immigrant-union-20150603-ghdwez.htmlBy The Sydney Morning Herald. It also has a 5/5 in Kerrang and a 6/10 in Classic Rock, but, not online articles
tl;dr of what Kerrang says?
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I really do love that initial guitar solo. Shades of Falling Down, in a good way.
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That's true. I felt with CE there were proper transitions into each phase of the song. Here it is abrupt. And I keep imagining what Matt changing instruments would look like during the song
Makes you appreciate how well the piano section of CE is introduced, tbh.
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They weren't even complaining, though...? They were just saying it reminded them of something else.
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It's one thing when the comparisons are remotely close, it's another when they're not.
That's not what you complaining about, though.
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I think had they fleshed out the riff section a bit more, allowing us to get the chance to discern the layers of instrumentation better, the transition would have been better. It's like, when the tremolo riff kicks in, we also get layers of power chords, strings, etc. and we only have so much time to process this wall of sound before it becomes a new section entirely.
Yeah, pretty much. It just doesn't feel like a smooth transition, it genuinely feels like two completely different thing glued together.
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Compositionally, the transition from the heavy part to the ballad is cohesive. The section ends on a change from A minor (which is the key of the section) to an A major, transitioning to the ballad in D major. Technically, this is a well-written key change since the A major to D major (or V to I) change is commonly used in classical music.
That being said, from a stylistic and production standpoint, how cohesive The Globalist is is completely subjective. Personally, I think how the riff section's transition into the finale is a bit jarring since it's so brief.
It's more the mashup at the end of the heavy section, it makes it sound completely abrupt and disconnected. And yes, the fact that it's so short.
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People hating this song describe it with nouns, other song names, as if that even means anything. This board is always full of cutting edge insight
Possibly because they don't have the grounding in musical theory to articulate precisely, in detail, what they're hearing, but they know exactly what it is so they decide to compare it to something else so other people go "oh yeah I get what you mean"?
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Give me a musical basis for why this song is incohesive.
The total lack of any actual harmony-based transition from the heavy section to the piano section?
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This album is mixed worse than BHAR, pretty damn unlistenable at times.
That could easily be the rip tbh. The lyric videos sound much better.
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I personally imagine the tremolo being global nuclear war and the first bomb was when it got louder. I'm assuming global nuclear war with nukes going off all over the place doesn't really last long, which is why that section would be short. Then of course it would cut to post-apocalypse with the whole piano thing.
I really hope there's some good imagery if they do a lyric video of it, I was kind of disappointed by The Handlers lack of imagery during the solo which it really needed. Then again it is just a lyric video.
This is pretty much what's suggested by the lyrics as well. So it does make sense narratively - just less so musically.
Drones Album Reviews
in Muse In the Media
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At least that way you actually have to do something to see it, though, rather than just have it spat out at you with no real context.
As for the Pitchfork review: not really sure what the problem is, tbh. It's harsher than I expected it to be, but it's hardly a complete flogging. Is the problem here that they don't align with everyone else's reviews? Or that they don't cater to the same demographic and music tastes as everyone else? It's self-indulgent and wanky, and I would preferred if they were more specific about what they actually liked/disliked on any given song and less Radiohead references, but it's Pitchfork. You expect that.