Absolution

Artist: Muse
Label: Mushroom Records
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5050466858726
ASIN: B0000C7GG2

Release Date: 2003-11-04

Absolution

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Tracks:

Intro
Apocalypse Please
Time Is Running Out
Sing for Absolution
Stockholm Syndrome
Falling Away With You
Hysteria
Interlude
Blackout
Butterflies & Hurricanes
The Small Print
Endlessly
Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist
Ruled By Secrecy

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Album Description

The English alternative rock trio's third studio album features 14 tracks including the hits 'Time Is Running Out' & 'Stockholm Syndrome'. Mushroom. 2003.

Album Details

Muse Reach a Crescendo in their Career with the Release of their Third Album, which Debuted at the Top of the British Charts. "uk Rock Record of the Year……astonishing" Says Nme Magazine. 'absolution' is Clearly the Product of Three Mid Twenties Musicians at the Height of their Powers, Determined to Push their Aesthetic all the Way.

Customer Reviews:

More melodrama! more epics! more keyboards!.......2006-06-11

it's a case of more of the same here from this outstanding band on this album. Absolution solidifies the status of Muse as the natural heirs to the alternative rock throne once occupied by Radiohead. add a bit of Queen's melodrama, some of the bombast from The Who and you've got Muse. the songs are razor-sharp with their hooks, big and beefy in their stride, and pristine in their performance and production. "Time Is Running Out," "Stockholm Syndrome," "Blackout," ...all amazing songs that make this cd worth the price of admission alone. i'm not too crazy about the artwork on this cd...a little hokey, i think...but it doesn't detract from the awe-inspiring epic pop rock that will dive straight into you once this disc starts spinning. Muse started off on a really good foot with the Showbiz album...then they upped the quality with Origin Of Symmetry, now Absolution towers over all three (just by a bit)....it's going to be tough to follow this up. keep your fingers crossed.

Absolution - Must Have CD.......2005-08-03

My friend described this as Queen meets Radiohead, which peaked my interest. Little did I know that this would be one of my favorite CD's ever. Get it.

Absolution is Muse's Absolute Best.......2005-06-17

Absolution is to Muse as Diorama is to Silverchair or OK Computer is to radiohead. It's simply Muse's best effort thus far. It's the conglomaration of everything they've been attempting up to this point rolled into one tightly knit bundle of musical freedom and epic sound. Absolution has gutwrenching power, as well as, heartstopping melodies depending on which tracks you've got slicing the airwaves. I've got everything they've put out from Showbiz forward, and there's no turning back after picking up my copy of Absolution.
Listen, if you like power emo stuff like Sunny Day Real Estate or acoustic rage like Dashboard Confessional~ do yourself a favor and take it to the next level. Pick up a copy of Absolution and burn a few tracks for your friends. You'll be the new music guru and chiefton of your particular clan and your entourage will be thanking you for months to come.

Like Radiohead, but with more rock.......2005-03-05

Radiohead has been my favorite band since 7th grade and will always like them better than Muse. But this album in particular has many qualities people like about Radiohead (the angst, conspiracy theories, lashing out against society) without some of the thing people dislike about Radiohead (namely Thom Yorke's singing).

With that aside, this album is good not only because it sounds similar to one of the most impressionable bands of our time, but because it just rocks out. This band presents sadness, love, terror and regret all in about one hour's time. Songs range from grinding, gritty guitars to a beautiful Mozart-like requiem at the end.

Definitely an album every lover of rock needs to hear.

Absolutely absolution.......2005-02-24

Apparently the third time was the charm -- little-known Brit-rock band Muse's third album was the one to break out in the US. "Absolution" is definitely a dark little gem -- the songs focus on deterioration and lost love, set against classical-sounding rock.

"And pull us through/And this is the end/This is the end of the world." An ominous piano crashes into "Apocalypse," which is only one of several songs with a deathly edge, such as the epic "Time is Running Out" or the soaring "Butterflies and Hurricanes" ("Fights and battles have begun/Revenge will surely come/Your hard times are ahead..."). Even the most intimate song is the thoughts of a dying atheist, afraid of what is -- and isn't -- after death.

But Muse is also focusing on love. Dead loves, lost loves, and the idea of loves that can't or won't last out. The delicate, bittersweet "Sing for Absolution" is perhaps the purest example of this -- a love song for a woman who is apparently dead. Other songs focus on the mix of love and hate, and the feeling of love crumbling away.

That focus of death and love -- or both together -- is what makes "Absolution" so compelling. Muse is often written off as a Radiohead clone, but their sound is more complex, and their focus is darker. A riff here and there echoes of Radiohead, and Matt Bellamy's voice echoes that of Thom Yorke. But that's about all.

There's nothing spacey or eerie about Muse's brand of rock. Instead, they opt for a soaring, rich sound, with orchestral melodies. It's obvious that Bellamy has studied not just rock, but classical as well -- he integrates the epic quality of classical music into a melody written for guitar, bass, piano and drums. At times the sound is so massive -- not loud, but massive -- that it sounds like the speakers are going to explode.

With music like that, one would think that Bellamy's voice would get lost in the mix. Surprisingly he doesn't -- he's no Jose Carreras, but his voice has gained new maturity, able to be a standard rock voice one moment, and then a pure choral vocalist the next. He brings across the heartbreak and anguish in the songs with startling purity, as if he means every word.

In fact, those songs are the one weak spot -- they aren't as big or as rich as the music, which makes them sound a bit tepid. They're not bad. But they simply don't measure up to the musical genius. So ignore the words, and just listen to Bellamy and the music.

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