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Absolution |  | Artist: Muse
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 093624873327
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ASIN: B0001LJC2K
Release Date: March 23, 2004
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| • | Intro | | • | Apocalypse Please | | • | Time Is Running Out | | • | Sing for Absolution | | • | Stockholm Syndrome | | • | Falling Away with You | | • | Interlude | | • | Hysteria | | • | Blackout | | • | Butterflies and Hurricanes | | • | The Small Print | | • | Endlessly | | • | Thoughts of a Dying Atheist | | • | Ruled by Secrecy |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: MUSE
Title: ABSOLUTION
Street Release Date: 03/23/2004
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Genre: ROCK/POP
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One can't listen to Muse without hearing Bends-era Radiohead, so it's necessary to start there. But for all the familiar grandeur and gloom, Muse's other catharsis-rock influences, like Queen, Slade, and even Black Sabbath, provide the band with a dazzling, heart-on-their-sleeves theatricality. Always threatening to layer on another falsetto from singer Matt Bellamy, or conjure more guitar crunch from the ether, Absolution is downright Baroque in parts, like a Rufus Wainwright-penned rock opera fantasy. Yes, the record is completely unoriginal. But when these guys let it rip, there's no doubt they have the fever. "Stockholm Syndrome," for one, could only be produced by True Believers with a lust for power chord drama, full of angst, envy, and the bitter end of it all. If you wish a certain Thom Yorke-led outfit from Oxford had made another record or two before evolving into minor-key art rockers, Muse carry the torch for another few miles, gloriously and tragically unaware that they're running in circles. --Matthew Cooke
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 Too Much of Not Enough March 3, 2010
R. G. Banks (Australia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
With Absolution, Muse finally succeed in becoming the grandiose, overblown Spandau Ballet of this generation; and singer Matt Bellamy a crooner without a cause. Sure, his deep-throated operatic bellowing may sound impressive, but ultimately it leads us nowhere new. In my opinion Muse did all this - and did it better - with their first two albums, Showbiz and Origin of Symmetry, achieving much more in the way of clear musical diversity.
As canny readers may note, I've awarded Absolution four stars so I can't think TOO badly of it, right? True, it's not that the individual tracks are lacking in any way - there's some brilliant music here - however taken as a whole, the album suffers from a similar problem to Radiohead's Hail to the Thief, in that both albums have too many ill-defined songs. (I only compare because both albums are the 2003 releases of bands I adore... and both feature 14 tracks).
But where as I quickly grew to know and love HTTT inside-out, Absolution often seems to drag for much longer than its fifty-two-minute running time. Through repeated listens I've discovered that unless I'm paying strict attention to the music, many of the songs end up blending together in a sonic-boom mush, sounding quite similar to one another in style and scope. (Ex: Apocalypse Please, Time is Running Out, Stockholm Syndrome, Butterflies and Hurricanes, all seem to be cut from the same loud, dramatically-patterned cloth).
My personal favourites on the album (though possibly unpopular choices) are 'The Small Print' and 'Endlessly'. Next to 'Hysteria', 'tsp' is one of Absolution's punchier tracks, and is also thematically/lyrically interesting. Meanwhile the understated 'Endlessly' exhibits some unusual rhythmic flourishes and experimental sounds.
Reading these reviews, I notice that Absolution is possibly the highest regarded of Muse's studio albums (if one can judge by the ratings and the sheer number of reviews posted) and to that end I agree that it stands head and shoulders above most of the dross that passes for music nowadays. But it's clearly a transitional album for the band, lurking somewhere between their early alternative rock sound, but before they came out all guns blazin' with Black Holes and Revelations - musically speaking that is.
 Nothing short of stunning. January 1, 2010
Paul D. Mcdevitt (Toronto, Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love music but hail back to the days of the 70s prog rock period when you listened to the album from beginning to end. There are few CDs today that match that period (not a knock but a recognition of the times.) So I was wonderfully surprised to pick up this CD while waiting for my wife and listened at full volume in my truck (which has a great sound system.) I was blown away. Powerful, sweeping, melodic, engaging. For the first time in a long while a CD to make my spine tingle. Something to listen - and enjoy - in it's entirety.
I could hear all sorts of influences - Queen, Rammstein, but so much more.
This is original and powerful work.
Now I have a pile of other Muse CDs to acquire and enjoy. Just glad I stumbled across this one.
Muse encompasses everything I love about music December 15, 2009
M. COOK (WA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ever read a book, see a piece of artwork, or hear something so profound....that it screams out to the very core of who you are and resonates with every cell in your being? I have loved music more than any other art or media form since I was old enough to know what music was. Muse is beautiful, unhindered, melodic, complex, and powerful. Quite simply, Muse has created the music my ears and soul have been waiting for my entire life.
unbelievable....what was i thinking October 21, 2009
Vorhese (Miami, Fl)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have had this cd for years, and only gave it a quick run through originally. At that time I was in more of a heavy metal fase but wow, I've been listening to this for a week strait and love it more everytime...great, great album!
Gets better the more you listen. September 25, 2009
Angela Anderson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of their best albums. There really isn't a weak song in the whole bunch. Muse is one of the few artists that gets better and better the more you listen. I get bored with music pretty quickly but not with their stuff. I highly recommend this album!
My personal favorite songs: Butterflies & Hurricanes (superbly crafted song, classical music mixed with epic rock music & vocals, Muse at their best), Time is Running Out (super cool soaring vocals and tempo changes), Falling Away With You (bittersweet love song, just gorgeous), Sing For Absolution (low sort of eerie tempo that builds to a great climax), Hysteria (amazing guitar & slamming beat), I could go on, seriously, I like them all!!
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