My ears hurt

Decided to listen to whatever album was no.1 at the time (I listen a few months ago). Big mistake.

I felt stoned whilst completely sober.

Brilliant from beginning to beginning.

Ugh, this album makes me feel icky. I stand with the few that like YMMFLIH which is fine with me but everything else just feels so unoriginal and tacky. The title track is a Marilyn Mason knockoff (Beautiful People), Compliance is another repeated failure of Muse trying to do Pop, Liberation is alright but Queen does the huge harmonies better, Won't Stand Down is fine and a good listen, Ghosts is nearly great but the production is awful with very audible clipping, Kill Or Be Killed is probably ... read more

An incredible album where it's only flaw is courtesy of the loudness of war. Compositionally, it's damn near perfect and the energy that comes out of this album is unmatched by anything in the rest of their discography.

I don't get the hate from some people. This album is brilliant with only Guiding light holding it back from a higher rating. Worth a listen and one of the best albums in the band's discography.

This is probably Muse's last "good" album. There is plenty to like here and whilst the inclusion of the dubstep-driven "Unsustainable" is just a bad choice, it doesn't ruin what is an overall decent album.

I used to love this album but as my tastes grew I realised how cringy and tacky it is. It's still good but there are too many tracks that slip away into the background and the overall message of the album is far too vague without aligning to any side of the fence. If Bellamy just said what he actually means we might actually have something decent here.

Weirdly, if you were to listen to some individual tracks from this album, you'll likely get an idea that it'll be good but it just does not hold together even slightly. It does make you think they should go back to plain rock but I think the next album shows that even that wasn't a good idea.

There are some good songs here and one brilliant one, but most of this is just not good (especially Body Language). This is very obviously a 1970s band trying to find their footing in the 1980s. Long gone are the days when their albums would proudly say "No Synths!" on the back, and maybe that was for the best, but it certainly wasn't in this album. Not worth listening to compared to anything in the rest of their discography.

Wow.

A great album that kept me bopping from the beginning to the end. The production is great too. Definitely an album I will be playing more in the future.

Just the correct level of chaos versus clarity.

I don't get it. Nothing really seems to happen in any of the songs and they don't seem to be about anything. I don't like the lazy vocals that just sound out of tune and like her voice is breaking every 5 seconds and the screaming in the second track just makes me cringe. Maybe the bed of each track is good but even then it's nothing ground-breaking.

I'm confused by the people that dislike this album so much. This was brilliant. So chill. I felt like it got better as the album went on. I suppose maybe it's because I'm not comparing it to their other albums, the only other thing I have heard is the collab with Gizzard and I think it's fair to say this is very different. Definitely, something I will be listening to again.

A great album held together with banging riffs and groove

Starts strong but I lost interest a bit towards the end. Some of the songs struggle a bit with sounding a bit sparse when the intention seems for them to sound huge.

Great album with some fantastic songs. The main highlights are: "Mr. Roboto", "Don't Let it End" and "Heavy Metal Poisoning".