Simulation Theory

Muse

An industrial thud announces the arrival of another Muse album.

The band’s signatures are here – frontman Matt Bellamy’s falsetto vocal runs, rock opera guitars and a bucketload of bravado.

Get Up And Fight, for example, is classic Muse. But there’s also a vein of new ideas running through its 11 tracks.

On their latest, Muse have returned to the embrace of knowing camp, and they sound all the better for it.

OUR VERDICT 8/10