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Muse new album: Matt & Dom talk
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Devonshire space-rawk trio Muse have revealed that they've begun work on their new record.
Speaking to NME, frontman Matt Bellamy revealed: "We've just started writing songs for the new album, whatever it's going to be, you know? It's going great, we just started... It's really about getting back together and getting the ball rolling again and seeing whether it'll roll."
Drummer Dom Howard told BBC 6Music:“It’s going really good (sic). We’ve got a studio in Italy now [we're guessing in or near Matt's house]. It’s our place and it’s really wicked."
"We’ve been 'off' the creative period for so long, being on tour, y'know? So once you get back together you have to start thinking that kind of way, so you have to push that ball and get it rolling."
There's that ball again.
“You get a whole bunch of ideas in the can and it’s not until later on that you actually decide what they should sound like and where they should go. But it’s a really exciting time.
"Other than that we're doing a whole bunch of gigs – V Festival, a little tour of South America and a few gigs in Ireland. Not forgetting how to play live. That’s what we're trying to do!"
However, with their summer shows (they're headlining V again) and, potentially, this next record, don't expect things to be as big and Flaming Lips-esque, as Matt recently explained to the Irish Times:
"I noticed something quite strange, we all noticed it, and it's happened on quite a few occasions. During the last tour, it was about 18 months altogether, the shows were quite large. Even in America they were like arenas. So straight from the off, I noticed that the first gig we did, in Bilbao in Spain - that was the first proper production gig that kicked things off - my first reaction was that the crowd seemed quieter than normal.
"I think that when you create a massive visual show, then the audience tends to watch more than jump around. That kind of rubbed off on the way we performed. I think we played slightly more polished than we normally would.
"So in the future, I think we definitely want to mix it up more. This last album was written for a large show all the way through; if you stay like that forever, you do lose something. This year, we may not go over-the-top spectacular. I think we might keep it a bit more raw."
And that's what they've got to say for themselves. Keep checking DiS for the latest.
From the archive
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Here's to hoping they steer
away from generic pop and toward experimentalist constructions.
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well, he does kinda say that but didn't wanna quote the whole Irish Times article
"In a way, digital music has kind of changed the way we look at albums. I don't think albums necessarily have to be as cohesive as they used to be. Occasionally, you'll make an album that has certain themes going through it, and maybe a concept album or something, but I think because people tend to download the tracks they like now, you can really make an album of quite different stuff.
"I kind of see us as a pluralistic style band. I don't want to blow my own trumpet, but I'm aiming for the sort of thing where you can be perceived as a real hard rock band and you can be perceived as a dancey band, or you can be perceived as an earnest songwriter. So when people ask me about our direction on the new album, all I can say is that we'll continue with enhancing those different areas we've got, and adding to them, and maybe even pushing them further."
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To be honest
it's no bother to me if they move away from the massive-production live shows.
They've done that now, and done it well.
But if that Albert Hall gig proved anything, it's that they don't *need* that production to be a phenomenal live act.
They just need the songs. -
Muse infuriate me.
Then again, if they write something as good as Megolomania again, I'll be all over it like a fat kid on pork.
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are you
quietly suggesting you think it is going to be a load of old balls?
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They can do what they like
but I'd really love it if they decide to do one album of exclusively extremely dirty heavy riffy stuff. I reckon that'd be great.
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muse
are really fucking...just daft! i like some of their songs but then on the same hand i really HATE the pompousness-rock-rock-show of it all.....which i know seems like they do it tongue in cheek and they are messing around and that's their thing.. but then does that make them any better than the darkness?!! i dunno...they CONFUSE the shit out of my taste! ...i think i hate them...i dislike the fact that they said they wrote an album for arenas a lot. bullshit. boo. yeah i hate them x
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What, me?
Not at all.
I fucking love Muse.
Whatever they do, I'll be all over it.
They can do that 50 minute symphony if they want. Of it's half as good as anything else they've done, I'll be happy. -
I wish
They'd still play Cave live
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i whole heartedly agree
they actaully were one of the most fun live bands around back then, and on record they were actually listenable!
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True
The best version of 'Cave' is on that 4-track Dangerous Records EP though.
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oh muse know what they're doing
that's the whole point. it's a game. for fun. not to be taken serious. have you seen the video to knights of cydonia*? no? then go watch it and stop being so po-faced.
*which is sodding awesome by the way, both song and video
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Remember when Muse was good?
That was before Absolution and that last album they made, which was shite, plain and simple.
They used to be a sure thing before they signed to a major label, but if they make an album as "pop" as their last album, I'm going to just give up on them. They will have just David Gray'ed themselves off the playlist.
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"I think we might keep it a bit more raw."
Hopefully that means they stop working with Rich Costey
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