While Will of the People is not as essential as their 2000s classics, it's a quick, satisfying burst of Muse essentials that cleverly forgoes the hits-compilation graveyard in favor of fresh material that honors both their evolution and dedicated fan base.
This is an album on which Muse master the wider range of future rock and pop sonics they've been toying with for the past decade and refine and define their current sound as neatly as Black Holes & Revelations did for their 2000s period.
The themes of Muse’s songs largely remain the same as ever but Will of the People showcases a band enjoying their craft and continuing to expand their musical horizons to entertaining effect.
Will of the People is the best, most engaging record to come from the band in sixteen years, and it’s quite possibly the most fun I’ll have with an album all year as well.
Muse are so bursting with energy and ideas even their joke songs are stadium-sized barnstormers.
Muse shows that they have had no growth in the 20+ years they have been making music on the disastrous "Will of the People". Shitty car commercial music meets awful queen rip offs. Everything about this album is tacky and immature. Tasteless and empty. It is one of the worst albums of the year, and one of the lowest forms of rock I have ever seen.
Nu-Dad Rock.
Have you heard ANYONE hype this album up in a positive light? No, really, look through your Discord messages, your AOTY comment threads, your group chats. Has any one single person said “Man, i’m excited for this new Muse album”? The most liked review for this album? More likely then not is negative! And if you HAVE seen that one person, was it ME? Because yes, this honestly was one of my most anticipated albums of the year. Despite the “Will of the ... read more
I even got the cd and the signed vinyl and it sounds like shit especially "we are fucking fucked". Like seriously who made that. Also I hate won't stand down the synths there are horrible. Most of the songs have bad production. Maybe they should go back to drones.
i love muse. well, i love black holes and revelations and all of their albums before that. muse has a pattern with their lyrics to talk about “rebelling” or something but most of the time they can get away with it because the music sounds so good. but this album does the opposite. muse makes some of the most uninteresting and boring songs i’ve ever heard with the same unspecific lyrics they’ve always used. everything after black holes kinda just becomes really corny. i ... read more
1 | Will Of The People 3:18 | 39 |
2 | Compliance 4:10 | 42 |
3 | Liberation 3:06 | 46 |
4 | Won’t Stand Down 3:29 | 57 |
5 | Ghosts (How Can I Move On) 3:37 | 52 |
6 | You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween 3:00 | 42 |
7 | Kill Or Be Killed 4:59 | 71 |
8 | Verona 4:57 | 60 |
9 | Euphoria 3:23 | 57 |
10 | We Are Fucking Fucked 3:36 | 52 |
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