“Guiding Light” features stratospherically sparse percussion, while synth effects slowly build Bellamy’s effort to find inspiration. Musically, The Resistance is stacked with well-polished, but heavy rhythms and sharp guitar riffs while Bellamy’s highly-recognizable voice rises to extraordinary levels. Bellamy seems ready to accept the role of rebel leader, albeit a symbolic one. On “United States Of Eurasia”, Bellamy asks with sheer poignancy, “must we do as we’re told?” that, if nothing else, forces his audience to challenge authority on even the tiniest level. “Resistance” is built on an elegant, gliding verse that explodes into a inspired rock refrain that would reach the highest sections of any stadium. “Uprising” features lyrics like “They will not control us/We will be victorious” over a synth-heavy stomp, which sets the album’s tone early. them” and “find the truth” rhetoric fills The Resistance, as Bellamy hints unspecifically at corruption and ill-gotten power throughout the album. Given the album’s title, The Resistance, and that it beings with a song entitled “Uprising”, it seems Muse are heavily intent on overthrowing someone – if not physically, then psychologically. Utterly bombastic arrangements accompany his pavement-stomping war-cries to make the most ambitious album of the year in terms of establishing a fan-base that could extend beyond the music itself. Designed to inspire fist-pumping and flag-waving, singer Matt Bellamy’s lyrics challenge his audience to consider political, cultural, economic, and personal alienation to motivate disruption of the status quo. And for new Muse fans, this would be a great album to start with.Muse’s fifth album is seemingly tailor-made for massive venues. In conclusion, would I recommend this album? Most definitely! Not only are the lyrical themes incredibly impressive, but also musically, this album shows much more maturity on Muse’s part than most rock bands display as they age, which is something that not all Muse fans would enjoy, but hopefully, something they can appreciate. Bassist, Chris Wolstenholme actually declared that the band took a step back, being more in the background as the orchestra took the lead in Exogenesis and that if the band was taken away and only the orchestral music remained, the song would still be just as beautiful.
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As well as the use of a keytar by Matthew Bellamy in the song Undisclosed Desires.Ī full orchestra was used on this album, especially in recording Exogenesis and the impressive part is that it was all composed by Matthew Bellamy, even the beautiful string arrangements in United States of Eurasia.
Many impressive effects were used for the bass-lines of most of the songs by Chris Wolstenholme. And more attention was given to the bass. Most of the songs had less elaborate guitar riffs and solos. But even to an untrained ear, this album would sound different from previous Muse albums. And I am not just talking about the use of strings and even whole orchestras at some point. Musically, this album is different from anything else Muse has done before. And that after said planet was ruined by humans – as the Earth is being ruined, now – some survivors were sent to what we now know as “Earth” to populate it. The title of the song actually means the hypothesis that life was created somewhere else in the universe, on another planet, for example. And when I mentioned the tin-foil hats and alien talk earlier, this is what I was talking about. Now this, in my humble opinion is a masterpiece.
Last but definitely not least, the song/symphony, Exogenesis. However, love songs were written and performed in a more mature manner in this album.
Some of the songs, like I Belong to You and Undisclosed Desires, bring us back to the old fashioned romantic, borderline cheesy, Muse songs. As well as the political theme, Muse fans can always put on their tin-foil hats and enjoy the alien references and conspiracy theories undertones in some if not all the songs. Matthew Bellamy’s wide-chested vocals sounded, especially in this context, like a revolutionary leader calling the people of the world for an uprising, an uprising against injustice, cruelty against humankind, the governments and their secret organizations which control the minds of people as well as the whole world itself. The social and political themes weren’t a mere undertone they were a straight up slap in the face of the dictatorships that rule the world nowadays. That fact is pretty much visible from song titles, such as: Uprising, United States of Eurasia and The Resistance - which contains very obvious references to the novel “1984” by George Orwell. The Resistance has a – more or less – unified theme which is mainly political, as I have previously mentioned. The album consists of 11 songs, three of which form the symphonic arrangement by Matthew Bellamy, Exogenesis.