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“Something Human” sounds like Erasure very much, and tackles homecoming following a lengthy tour, a focus on returning to family life after a spell travelling and working. “Break It to Me” is more rallying against the system and deploys a fantastic percussive rhythm and beat.
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For all the weightiness of the music’s presentation lyrically the songs are brief, often rhythmically repetitive, and fail to hit the depth that’s maybe being aimed for. There’s a heavy Kraftwerk feel to the heavily treated tile phrase in the track which is laid over a typically funky Muse beat with flashes of Prince all over the place. Or possibly about lies and false promises in a relationship. “Propaganda” is a song about looking at something in very close detail…. “Pressure” is riff laden with echoes of “Supermassive Black Hole” to it. The music is typically chest thumping Muse fair though, which lodges a sense of optimism or even euphoria that is at odds with the lyrical content. It’s not as ominous musically as that sounds and “The Dark Side” further sets a scene with its depiction of paranoia and depression. The Simulation Theory blasts open with “Algorithm”, a scene-setting cinematic intro presenting the album’s theme, a world where we live in a Matrix-like controlled simulation environment with talk of going to war with the controllers/creators. They’ve never made a duff album, but have they ever made a classic, career defining one, like The Joshua Tree or Violator? Arguably not… Muse have steadily moved to the point where they are releasing the eighth studio album of their career.