So...I now write for a groovy little music site called Lush Beat. Naturally you can find it at lushbeat.com! Check it out. Mucho good concert photos, interviews, reviews, etc.
While you are there, check out my latest interview with The Routine. They are some fun, hip fellas with some nice music.
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) -MUSE
Early yesterday afternoon my Twitter timeline was filled with Musers anxiously waiting for Zane Lowe to start up Muse's new song, and featured single for the new Twilight movie. Truly it's name says it all: "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)". What are your first thoughts based on the title alone? Perhaps...cheesy? Epic overhaul? Colossal happenings? Grace and beauty? Well, there's your review. The title explains Bellamy's, Wolstenholme's and Howard's attempt and success of a dose of much needed Muse rock.
It begins with a very mature sounding Matthew Bellamy, accompanying himself with a simple piano melody as their ever-so-infamous choral vocals creep in from behind (the one's that remind us of Queen). A slight pause...putting all of us at the edge of our seats, awaiting the epicness that is sure to occur!...and then the show-tune/50's style beat begins.
"Love! (bumbum chick) is forever!" Bellamy exclaims, eluding corniness that perhaps surpasses that of "Guiding Light". It repeats continuously for a few moments. Is this it?
But then, something reminiscent of their "Resistance" finally charges through as Howard picks up the pace, Wolstenholme joins in, and the synth finally intervenes! This is it! Somehow the next chorus seems much less corny, and much more Muse rock. Bellamy hits every note flawlessly, as he tends to do, and his Manson guitar accompanies with a powerful punch. It's finally all put together; synth, guitar, hovering bass lines, that colossal drumming, and the beautiful voice, all echoing a melody you are sure to have stuck in your head for hours. Go on, try to forget about it. Good luck with that.
About three-fourths through, Bellamy entertains us with his guitar solo. It's nothing extremely sensational, though respectable and fun enough to air guitar to (you know you do it). The final verse and chorus finish up with a bang, making us all rubberneck it with the best of (Chris) them. We think it may be finished with the last chord....but similar to their last Twilight single, "I Belong To You/Mon Coer S'ouvre A Ta Voix", Bellamy charms us with this grace at the piano. For only slightly more than 30 seconds, Matthew croons and swoons us with his magical touch...until fin.
So though it may begin with that old high school musical feel, Muse does not dissapoint in rocking you out of your chair. It's catchy and simple, but that's what tends to make a song something of a hit. It does have the feel that maybe they whipped this up in a hurry, perhaps needing to make a deadline for the soundtracks release, but Lennon and McCartney did that with "A Hard Day's Night". And I think we all know how that one turned out.
Like I said before, the name says it all. But the sound says more:
It begins with a very mature sounding Matthew Bellamy, accompanying himself with a simple piano melody as their ever-so-infamous choral vocals creep in from behind (the one's that remind us of Queen). A slight pause...putting all of us at the edge of our seats, awaiting the epicness that is sure to occur!...and then the show-tune/50's style beat begins.
"Love! (bumbum chick) is forever!" Bellamy exclaims, eluding corniness that perhaps surpasses that of "Guiding Light". It repeats continuously for a few moments. Is this it?
But then, something reminiscent of their "Resistance" finally charges through as Howard picks up the pace, Wolstenholme joins in, and the synth finally intervenes! This is it! Somehow the next chorus seems much less corny, and much more Muse rock. Bellamy hits every note flawlessly, as he tends to do, and his Manson guitar accompanies with a powerful punch. It's finally all put together; synth, guitar, hovering bass lines, that colossal drumming, and the beautiful voice, all echoing a melody you are sure to have stuck in your head for hours. Go on, try to forget about it. Good luck with that.
About three-fourths through, Bellamy entertains us with his guitar solo. It's nothing extremely sensational, though respectable and fun enough to air guitar to (you know you do it). The final verse and chorus finish up with a bang, making us all rubberneck it with the best of (Chris) them. We think it may be finished with the last chord....but similar to their last Twilight single, "I Belong To You/Mon Coer S'ouvre A Ta Voix", Bellamy charms us with this grace at the piano. For only slightly more than 30 seconds, Matthew croons and swoons us with his magical touch...until fin.
So though it may begin with that old high school musical feel, Muse does not dissapoint in rocking you out of your chair. It's catchy and simple, but that's what tends to make a song something of a hit. It does have the feel that maybe they whipped this up in a hurry, perhaps needing to make a deadline for the soundtracks release, but Lennon and McCartney did that with "A Hard Day's Night". And I think we all know how that one turned out.
Like I said before, the name says it all. But the sound says more:
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