Muse
The Wow! Signal
30--100点相当
The Arts Desk が満点
初期の時点では、
かなり久しぶりにメディア評価もそこそこな作品となっている。
出そろったころには、いつも通りな感じもするが、
一般リスナーからの反応も悪くないよう。
初期作品には及ばないが、反応的には
それに近い反応の良さ。
Ever since their gothic sci-fi masterpiece 2001 album ‘Origin Of Symmetry’, Muse have been largely preoccupied with matters of life up there and who’s really pulling the strings down here. For frontman Matt Bellamy, his obsession with the stars, conspiracy and the great beyond seems to come from an undying need for answers, to quench a thirst for something missing.
Written in the wake of his split from model, actress and mother of two of his children Elle Evans, Bellamy faced a profound unknown he’d not felt in decades, and so drew on the feelings and – consciously or not – the sounds of the band’s earlier days. ‘The Wow! Signal’ opener ‘The Dark Forest’ feels like a blockbuster sequel to ‘Black Holes & Revelations’’ Ennio Morricone space Western rocker ‘Knights Of Cydonia’, as the band gallop above swooping strings as Bellamy earnestly delivers the album’s M.O. to “launch a pulse out into the abyss, reach out a hand to the lonely”.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/muse-the-wow-factor-album-review/
https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-wow%21-signal-mw0004785643