Muse Give Insight Into Forthcoming Album ‘The 2nd Law’

There’s been a lot of things going down in the Muse camp as of the last few days, and now they’re giving an insight into what we can expect from their forthcoming album.

Mere weeks ago, the three-piece returned with a trailer for ‘The 2nd Law’ which got everyone talking, but, as pointed out by NME.com the band gave us a more clear impression of the record in an interview with BBC Radio 1 last night.

‘We’ve tried a bunch of new things, which the trailer gives a glimpse of,’ explain frontman Matt Bellamy. ‘We’ve basically tried to do what Rage Against The Machine did with hip-hop in the 1990s and take a bit of the electronic world and dubstep and play it with real instruments. There’s only one track like that, the rest of it is very very diverse.’

And as for the trailer itself? ‘We threw that trailer out on YouTube, which has got an excerpt from one of the tracks that’s on the album. We wanted to show that the album’s got lots of different faces.’

‘There’s a bigger emphasis on groove, we’ve always tried to improve on that with every album and I think on two or three tracks we’ve really nailed it. There’s a couple of tracks where we’ve captured the other side of us too, they’re quite minimal. There’s a really jazzy brass number, I even tried to get a sax solo.’

The band are set to release ‘The 2nd Law’ on the 17th September and you can hear their brand new track - and official theme song for the 2012 Olympics - ‘Survival’ below.



OCTOBER
16 Montpelier, France, Park & Suites
18 Paris, France, Bercy
20 Madrid, Spain, Palacio de Deportes
22 Nantes, France, Zenith
24 Glasgow, SECC, UK
26 London, O2 Arena, UK
27 London, O2 Arena, UK
30 Birmingham, LG Arena, UK

NOVEMBER
01 Manchester, MEN Arena, UK
12 Munich, Gerrmany, Olympiahalle
14 Basel, Switzerland, St Jakobshalle
16 Bologna, Italy, Unipol Arena
17 Pesaro, Italy, Adriatic Arena
19 Vienna, Austria, Stadhalle
20 Budapest, Hungary, Arena
22 Prague, Czech Republic, O2 Arena
23 Lodz, Poland, Atlas Arena

DECEMBER
05 Oslo, Norway, Spektrum Arena
06 Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson Globe
07 Malmo, Sweden, Arena
10 Helsinki, Finland, Hartwall Arena
11 Talinn, Estonia, Saku Arena
13 Riga, Latvia, Arena
15 Hamburg, Germany, O2 World
17 Amsterda,, The Netherlands Ziggo Dome
18 Antwerp, Belgium, Sportspaleis