I’m loving the new single but the lack of any announcements or album news is disappointing Was out at a bar with my brother when the single dropped and we got the bar to play the new song, it was a fancy small bar that played jazz music so nobody in there was impressed at all 😂😂😂 But we were drunk with espresso martinis head banging!

I’m vibing listening to the new single and then proceeding to go into the dark new Blood Red Shoes album Ghosts on Tape and it’s a lovely mix.

I personally don’t mind Drones. But I recognise it’s a rubbish album that I like because I’m a muse fan and bias. I think for me personally though I built it up with so much hype, Matt had long hair, there was all this teasing of heavy riffs, the album art work, psycho being hyped up as too dark and heavy for the radio etc I was ready for something dark, loud and heavy and we got some of that with The Handler, Reapers was good fun, I even thought Dead Inside was the single they had tried to make for years and finally got right. Mercy I didn’t mind. But after that Revolt was too much cheese, defector could have been fun but it’s so lyrically cheesy and bad, aftermath is surely up there for the worst thing they have done…Globalist could have really been something special but I have found I never ever go back to it post Drones era. I think if we had less of the word Drones in the album and didn’t go all in on that theme it could have been a lot better, I think they picked the wrong dude to produce it and it needed a couple more stronger songs and no aftermath. I hope this time around we get a better overall product.

It’s also really nice to see some old names back in here! I refused to ever go the reddit or Facebook group route. This single gives me some hope we might get what they tried and failed to do with Drones, except with a producer they enjoy working with and after doing Origin XX they are well and truly out of that Ready Player 1/Tron/Blade Runner phase.

When I pulled apart the mysterious letters at the bottom of the single art it actually reads “Drones Part 2” 😉😂

I remember originally being so ridiculously hyped for Drones and outside of The Handler, Reapers and moments on the Globalist we had a pretty cheesy album that didn’t live upto the hype filled with radio singles like Dead inside, mercy, revolt and that awful ballad aftermath or whatever it was called. hopefully this time we get something a bit more cohesive and muse abandon trying to make the top 40 with a pop song.

I think everyone went onto reddit forums. I miss the days this used to be a hive of activity and we would have details on literally every man and his dog who had remotely worked on the album in some capacity! By the standards of old this is weak or Muse are just a lot better at concealing info about the album.

We obviously need to kidnap Matt Bellamy.

In years gone by we would have had exciting red herrings or tidbits about the friend of the guy who was friends with the photographer who knows the artist who helped inspire the album art and he said on Twitter that he can’t say anything about the album but he thinks he can say that it doesn’t suck. Time to start digging people!!!

It’s quiet...too quiet...

They used to design such good merch pre simulation theory. Whoever took over has butchered it.

As a vinyl collector I’ll be getting around this release. but sheesh, some of the apparel they have put out in the store for this release is pretty ugly, the shirt that comes with the vinyl is the least ugly of the lot.

I’m not sure how I feel about this. Citizen Erased has forever been my favourite song of all time. On first listen and being a total noob with audio/mixing/production I didn’t hear a massive difference to justify a entire new release or reimagining of this album. It sounded good, don’t get me wrong, I could hear some strings, but will have to have a few more listens to have a proper opinion on this. I feel like a nice deluxe repress with a fancy coloured vinyl and futurism in the track list would have been fine with a anniversary tour.

Where the hell did you people find the leak I can’t find it anywhere! Someone inbox me thanks

I gots to hear it