MUSE: The 2nd Law review

So on October 1^st MUSE’s 6^th studio album The 2nd Law came out and as a big MUSE fan I was very excited to hear what they had to offer. During the summer they released 3 singles from The 2^nd Law – Madness, The 2nd Law: Unsustainable and the official London 2012 song Survival.

Now these three songs are all very different from each other which made me and a lot of other people question what genre the album would be and to be honest it’s a mix of genres.

Songs like Madness, The 2nd Law Unsustainable and Follow Me are dubstep and others are rock which I think is good as it shows that MUSE are changing but are still appealing to many audiences and personally I like this change and hope they carry on with it and carry on with the mix of genres.

As they did in their 5^th studio album The Resistance with the Exogenesis Symphonies, MUSE have put two mainly instrumental songs at the end of The 2^nd law with The 2^nd Law: Unsustainable and The 2^nd Law: Isolated System. These two songs are quite different from each other as Unsustainable is dubstep and Isolated System is electronic. These songs also give us why the album is called The 2^nd Law – it is to do with the 2^nd law of thermodynamics which can be heard being described by the the voiceover in Unsustainable and Isolated System. Also the object on the album cover is a scan of bran activity and is very colourful and similar to the cover of their 5^th studio album The Resistance.

Again MUSE have bought out an album which has redefined themselves again and and they now encompass many genres and as a massive MUSE fan I like this new direction that they are going in.  

Let me know what you think, what your favourite songs are and your views below.

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