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Muse ‎– The Resistance / Warner Bros. Records ‎Audio CD 2009

Name: Muse ‎– The Resistance / Warner Bros. Records ‎Audio CD 2009 / 825646874347
Brand: Warner Music Group Corp.
SKU: 825646874347
Price: 35.99 USD
Availability: InStock

UPC 825646874347

Product Details:

Label: Warner Bros. Records ‎– 825646874347

Format: CD, Album

Country: Europe

Released: 11 Sep 2009

Genre: Rock

Style: Alternative Rock, Art Rock, Prog Rock, Symphonic Rock, Space Rock

Description:

With its titanic guitar solos, symphonic suites, and multi-layered melodies, Muse's fifth album operates under the assumption that bigger is better. This is the very definition of a super-sized album, an album that takes its cues from Queen, its lyrics from science fiction novels, and its delivery from rock opera. It's also the first time that Muse has truly sounded like Muse, as few bands since Queen have so readily explored the intersection of bombast and extravagance. The Resistance is most certainly extravagant -- there are snatches of classical piano entwined throughout, not to mention bilingual lyrics, concert hall percussion, coronet solos, and song titles like "Exogenesis: Symphony, Pt. 2 (Cross-Pollination)" -- but it's also quite beautiful, capable of moving between prog rock choruses and excerpts from Chopin's "Nocturne in E Flat Major" within the same song. Presiding over the mix is frontman Matthew Bellamy, a man who seemingly aspires to be both Brian May and Freddie Mercury. He plays guitar, pounds the piano, and composes the album's orchestral parts, but his strongest asset is his voice, a sky-scraping tenor dripping with so much emotion that it's almost lewd. He croons, whispers, annunciates, and belts with confidence, a combination that makes him one of England's most dazzling singers in recent memory. And since a virtual mountain of voices is better than a single voice (remember: bigger is better), Bellamy also multi-tracks himself, creating towering stacks of harmonies during songs like "Resistance," "Undisclosed Desires," and the colossal "United States of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)." The band's tendency to pile excess upon excess doesn't always yield strong results, and there's a fine line between, say, the anthemic beauty of "Guiding Light" and the bizarre Timbaland-meets-Depeche Mode ambiance of "Undisclosed Desires." Even so, The Resistance is by and large a fantastic record, culminating in a three-song suite that finds the group jumping from classical movements to guitar fretwork to sweeping, swaggering, operatic rock. Those songs occupy the final 16 minutes of the disc, and while they'd likely make a bigger impact earlier in the track list, their mere presence indicates that Muse is finally growing comfortable with its own aspirations. Black Holes and Revelations may be a more commercial record, but The Resistance is Muse's most realized effort to date.

Tracklist:

1	Uprising Handclaps [Additional Claps], Noises [Football Hooligan Noises] – Adrian Bushby, Paul Reeve, Tom Kirk	5:03
2	Resistance	5:47
3	Undisclosed Desires	3:56
4	United States Of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage) Performer [Nocturne In E Flat Major] – M. Bellamy, Producer [Additional Sound Effects production On +Collateral Damage] – Paul Reeve, Written-By [Nocturne In E Flat Major] – Frédéric Chopin	5:48
5	Guiding Light	4:13
6	Unnatural Selection	6:55
7	MK Ultra	4:06
8	I Belong To You (+Mon Cœur S'ouvre A Ta Voix) Arranged By ['Mon Cœur S'ouvre A Ta Voix' Re-arranged By] – M. Bellamy, Bass Clarinet – Enrico Gabrielli, Composed By [Mon Cœur S'ouvre A Ta Voix, From Samson And Delilah] – Camille Saint-Saëns, Performer ['Mon Cœur S'ouvre A Ta Voix' Peformed By] – Muse	5:39
9	Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)	4:18
10	Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination)	3:56
11	Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)	4:37

More Details:

Artwork – www.laboca.co.uk
Bass, Vocals – Chris Wolstenholme
Conductor [Orchestra Conducted By] – Audrey Riley
Drums, Percussion, Synth, Programmed By [Programming] – Dominic Howard
Engineer – Adrian Bushby
Mastered By – Ted Jensen
Mixed By – Mark 'Spike' Stent
Orchestra [Orchestral Players Provided By] – Edodea Ensemble, Silvia Catasta
Performer [Peformed By] – Muse
Photography By [Band Photographs By] – Danny Clinch
Producer – Muse
Songwriter [Song Writing], Arranged By [Orchestral Arrangements] – Matthew Bellamy
Violin [First Violinist] – Edoardo De Angelis (2)
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Synth, Programmed By [Programming] – Matthew Bellamy

About the Band:

Muse signed to Maverick Records and released their debut album, Showbiz, in 1999, showcasing Bellamy's falsetto and a melancholic alternative rock style. Their second album, Origin of Symmetry (2001), incorporated wider instrumentation and romantic classical influences, and earned them a reputation for energetic live performances. Absolution (2003) saw further classical influence, with strings on tracks such as "Butterflies and Hurricanes", and was the first of five consecutive UK number-one albums.

Black Holes and Revelations (2006) incorporated electronic and pop elements, displayed in singles such as "Supermassive Black Hole", and brought Muse wider international success. The Resistance (2009) and The 2nd Law (2012) explored themes of government oppression and civil uprising and cemented Muse as one of the world's major stadium acts. Rolling Stone stated the band possessed "stadium-crushing songs". Their seventh album, Drones (2015), was a concept album about drone warfare and returned to a harder rock sound. Their eighth album, Simulation Theory (2018), prominently featured synthesisers and was influenced by science fiction and the simulation hypothesis.

Muse have won numerous awards, including two Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards, five MTV Europe Music Awards and eight NME Awards. In 2012 they received the Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. As of June 2016, they have sold over 20 million albums worldwide.

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