Muse "Drones"

Muse have long been a personal favourite of mine, It was Muse that got me into rock and alternative music at the age of 13, before which I only really listened to chart music that I heard through my sister or over the radio. On hearing the progressive and politically motivated "Uprising" from their album "The Resistance", Muse gained a new fan. Furthermore, as a guitarist I enjoy finding songs that I can learn and that are also complex and iconic and Muse are almost 100% successful in providing at least one such song per album. In most cases there are many.
 The  album "Drones" was Muse's most recent release, being released in June of this year. Of all the songs on the album, my personal favourite was "Psycho". I am a fan of heavy metal, hard rock and other derivatives of the rock scene and this was the song from the album which most adhered to my taste. I like the distortion heavy intro/guitar break that plays all through the song and I like the theatrical style of Matt Bellamy's vocals over the top. In addition, possibly my favourite song ever by Muse was either "Hysteria" or "Plug in Baby" with many others coming close ("Supermassive black hole" and "bliss", and "feeling good" to mention a few) revealing that my favourite Muse tracks are the heavy and distorted, fast paced songs from various albums. "Psycho" has many traits of songs like those mentioned above and therefore stands as my personal favourite from the album "Drones".
 The title song of the album was a typical demonstration of the artistic virtuosity of Matt, Chris and Dom with harmonised and operatic vocals throughout the song. In my opinion, Muse can sound a lot like Queen on occassion and this is exactly the kind of musical expertise and stylistic/genre fusion that Queen utilised in the song "Bohemium Rhapsody". Any style that Muse tackle is almost guaranteed to come out as a success due to the superior musicianship of all three members of the band. As well as having an incredibly gifted guitarist and vocalist/frontman in Matt Bellamy, Muse has an equally talented and unique drummer in Dominic Howard and an amazingly talented multi-instrumentalist and bassist in Chris Wolstenholme. The heavy driven basslines in songs such as "Hysteria" and "Plug in Baby" and "Psycho" from the new album are what give Muse their unique and recognisable sound along with the screeching and emotional vocals of Matt Bellamy and the experimental mixed genre drum beats from Dom Howard. Overall, "Drones" is an accurate and brilliant representation of the artistic perfectionism of Muse and is an album that has a mixture of tracks to please heavier rock fans along with those who prefer progressive rock and softer versions of the genre.