Muse
Will of the People
WARNER/HELIUM-3
When Muse lifted the visor of the VR headset that had transported them into the retro-futurist 1980s of 2018’s Simulation Theory album, the apocalypse they’d long predicted was raging around them: despots, diseases, mass uprisings, wildfires, the nuclear shadow… Having already made the decision that their ninth album would reflect world events, pickings were rich.
It opens with the title track, a glam-rock satire of Trump’s January 6th foot soldiers determined to ‘’ and ‘’, along to a tune heavily reminiscent of Marilyn Manson’s : singer Matt Bellamy concludes: ‘’ From there we get a sonic ’Bellamy notes over stampeding electro-punk and ominous operatic backing vocals on the astutely titled .
