I am waiting patiently, I’ll wait for the sign…

I feel guilty, I haven’t posted for ages. I’m sure it doesn’t matter, I doubt anyone actually reads it anyway. Regardless, I’ll make a nice post for you to read.
Today I felt like posting a review of the latest Muse albums, Black Holes and Revelations (or: BHAR, a much more fun title). I’m a very big fan of Muse, all four of their albums are very good and they’ve yet to make something bad. BHAR is just the same. It starts off with Take A Bow, quite a dramatic and over-the-top start to the album, then just launches into Starlight straight afterwards. This is one of the best songs on the album, and is exceptionally simple with a fantastic chorus, although the ending is a bit of a let down.
Supermassive Black Hole, I’m sure you’ve heard already. It’s a rather poppy song, and is a bit out of place from some of the other songs. This has been the theme on Absolution and Showbiz, Time is Running Out and Muscle Museum were both different from the rest of the album. It’s a good song, but there are other, far better, songs on the album that could have been used.
Map of the Problematique (extra points for the French words, obviously) is a bit of a filler track, yet it has a catchy riff to it, yet it’s still better than the next song. Soldier’s Poem is one of those quiet, mellow ones without much substance to it, something I’m not a great fan of, to be honest. Fortunately, it’s only two minutes long.
Invincible is a bit of a love song (Together we’re invincible. Blah, blah, blah), and slowly gets louder and louder as the song progresses. Rather good, really. Assassin follows after, and is a lot more fast-paced, it (at least to me) gives the impression of a man riding on horseback if anything. The song sounds like it would have fitted in just fine with Absolution.
Exo-Politics is a brilliant song, one of the best on the album. I don’t know what it is, but the song’s just really easy to enjoy and great to sing along to. City of Delusion isn’t bad, although it’s very similar throughout, just broken up with two bridges in the middle and near the end.
Hoodoo is my least favourite track, and is just rather boring, really. Fortunately, Knights of Cydonia makes you forget about that. It is just an amazing song, and is over-the-top in a great way. It takes a while to kick into the lyrics, but when you finally get there it has the gem of a line “Don’t waste your time or time will waste you”. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable song, and is the perfect ending to the album.

Overall, the album is good, but isn’t as good as their earlier work (read: Origin of Symmetry). What gets my hopes up is that the next album may be more of a concept album like Dark Side of the Moon, something that Matt Bellamy mentioned in an interview. Muse certainly have it in them to release an album like that.

Anyway, I’d give this an 8/10.