{"id":5435,"date":"2015-06-08T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altwire.net\/?p=5435"},"modified":"2023-12-06T06:37:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:37:02","slug":"album-review-muse-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/resena-del-album-muse-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Rese\u00f1a del \u00e1lbum: Muse \u2013 Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muse\u00a0has become\u00a0one of the biggest names\u00a0in alternative rock and their millions of fans have been waiting for the next album to be released. Since the inception of the band, Muse has released albums approximately three years apart, and\u00a0their 7th<\/sup> studio album, Drones,<\/em> is no exception. Arriving just two years and eight months after Second Law, Drones\u00a0<\/em>is a complete one-eighty of its predecessor. When compared to their latest few albums, it is very obvious that they\u2019ve taken their music in a different direction.<\/p>\n

Drones<\/em> is something of a concept album, with most tracks flowing into each other.\u00a0The story is of a man fighting against his own dehumanization. It feels cohesive, but also played out, we’ve heard this sort of plot before.\u00a0They\u2019ve also backed off the more orchestral and electronic styles of their most recent previous albums and delivered a solid, forceful, yet sometimes awkward, sound.<\/p>\n

The first track, \u201cDead Inside,\u201d starts with Muse\u2019s signature robotic-futuristic sound\u00a0with booming, addictive guitar, yet something\u2019s missing. By returning to a more stripped-down style, they lost the ear-worm electronic hooks\u00a0that dominated\u00a0The Resistance;<\/em> a\u00a0regression that fans of their recent albums may not like.<\/p>\n

Two of the tracks on the album, \u201c[Drill Sargeant]\u201d and \u201c[JFK]\u201d are pieces of speeches that lead into the songs that follow them. The audio clip seemingly breaks up the flow of the album. A little more than halfway through the song\u00a0\u201cPsycho,\u201d which follows \u201c[Drill Sargeant],”\u00a0there\u2019s a break in the music and another audio clip pops up. It feels anticlimactic and forced. They could have been left out and would likely not be missed, and in fact\u00a0were annoying interruptions I’d likely skip if ever listening to the album all the way through again.<\/p>\n

From the quick, huge jumps in the dynamic range of a song, to the harmonic vocalizations of Bellamy, the Queen influence is stronger in this album than anything\u00a0I’ve ever heard\u00a0before by Muse.\u00a0Tracks like \u201cDrones\u201d and \u201cDefector\u201d have moments that could have been plucked straight from a Queen album.<\/p>\n

The true strength in Drones is what Muse\u2019s strengths have always been: fantastic vocals, skilled and interesting guitar parts, adrenaline-pumping beats and their political and emotional lyrics.<\/p>\n

Stepping\u00a0back from where they have evolved by\u00a0choosing to return to the alternative-rock sound found in their early albums can be\u00a0good or bad depending on your preferred era of Muse. The audio clips of the\u00a0speeches didn\u2019t add anything\u00a0and, unfortunately,\u00a0there are places where the political story\u00a0felt clich\u00e9 and a dated.\u00a0Even though there are\u00a0some underwhelming tracks,\u00a0it is a solid release with some catchy songs. It didn’t blow me away, but I’ll be adding a couple tracks to my playlist for the week.<\/p>\n

My favorite tracks, by far,\u00a0were \u201cReapers,\u201d for its absolutely addictive guitar parts, and \u201cThe Handler,\u201d for its amazing vocals and energy.\u00a0Try to listen to either one of these and not smash something out of joy, really they’re what bumped this album (just barely) into my good graces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muse\u00a0has become\u00a0one of the biggest names\u00a0in alternative rock and their millions of fans have been waiting for the next album … Leer m\u00e1s<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-5435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-muse","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}