Muse Origin Of Symmetry CD

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Muse: Chris Wolstenholme (bass guitar); Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard.
Personnel: Matthew Bellamy (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Jacqueline Norrie, Sally Herbert (violin); Clare Finnimore (viola); Caroline LaVelle (cello); Chris Wolstenholme (vibraphone, background vocals); Dominic Howard (drums, percussion); Chris Brown, Chris Brown (programming).
Audio Mixers: Muse; John Cornfield.
Recording information: Astoria Studios, Richmond; EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England; Real World Studio, Wiltshire, England; Ridge Farm Studios, Surrey, England; Sawmills Studio, Fowey, Cornwall, England; St. Mary's Church, Bathwick.
If you're going to pillage someone else's ideas, then go for broke. Because even if you find yourself crammed between the barriers of creative space, utterly at a loss for ideas, expression, or thought, you'd still have a self-respect buzzing in your ear like a mad angelic insect, putting down the newspaper and taking out a cigar to remind you that, hell, if want to sound like Radiohead when even Thom Yorke doesn't want to sound like Radiohead, you might as well take it to preposterous, bombastic, over-the-top levels. Add church organs, mental electronics, riffs bouncing off each other like the monolithic screams in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and you'll finally be in position to crack skulls like coconuts and make the world's speakers ooze gooey blood. ~ Dean Carlson
The sophomore release by this English rock trio makes good on the promise of the band's debut, SHOWBIZ. Like that album, ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY is a lush, artfully arranged album of epic, heady rock (complete with electronics, swirling guitars, baroque keyboard embellishments, and dramatic vocals) that is sure to garner comparisons to Radiohead.
In addition to their grand sonic canvases, though, Muse have a way with a melodic hook, and consequently balance out the progressive tendencies of the music with straightforward rock accessibility. All of these factors are more pronounced on ORIGIN than on the debut, and the result is a release that positions Muse as one of the more promising acts on the U.K.'s new rock scene.
The sophomore release by this English rock trio makes good on the promise of the band's debut, SHOWBIZ. Like that album, ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY is a lush, artfully arranged album of epic, heady rock (complete with electronics, swirling guitars, baroque keyboard embellishments, and dramatic vocals) that is sure to garner comparisons to Radiohead.
In addition to their grand sonic canvases, though, Muse have a way with a melodic hook, and consequently balance out the progressive tendencies of the music with straightforward rock accessibility. All of these factors are more pronounced on ORIGIN than on the debut, and the result is a release that positions Muse as one of the more promising acts on the U.K.'s new rock scene.