MUSEs
latest does little to steer them away from the Radiohead comparisons
- sounding, as it does, exactly like Radiohead with a stage-school
graduate on vocals.
Much is made of Matt Bellamy's voice. It's described as soaring, fragile,
visceral and tender and so it may well be, but it takes enormous talent
to express such bleak introspective sentiment without sounding whiny
and overwrought. Which this does. As long as you've never heard Jeff
Buckley or Radiohead then I'm sure this is fantastic. For everyone
else, it's just about bearable to listen to in a fifth single from
the debut album sort of way. MUSE have a huge future ahead of them,
so maybe it's time to record that second record and stop drawing on
the weaker tracks from the first one. Hmmm?
Andy Capper