The 2nd Law

This boxset exceeded expectations, its a very neat box with The 2nd Law on Vinyl and CD/DVD. It also comes with 3 pictures of the band and artwork. The thermal ink on the box is fun and looks great. The album itself is amazing although a slight step away from the older Muse its an album that is in the same lines as The Resistance in terms of experimentation and sounds massive. The song Survival is a good example with guitar ryths and orchestras/choirs that make Butterflies and Hurricanes seem small and uninmaginative. Then theres the songs The 2nd Law which doesnt actually feature any singing from Matt but features recordings from radio broadcasts and also shows Muse's first step into a dubstep style of music made better by the fact they're playing it all on guitars. However if you're a fan of the Showbiz era Muse you may find yourself disapointed with most of the songs because it is an obvious step away however Supremacy still shows you that Muse can rock out after all these years.

Good CD from start to finish and you find yourself really enjoying the tracks that you don't know as well as the hits which is a sign of a good album.

To strike a balance between the "Muse 'til I die" and the "disappointed" reviewers, I would like to say this is probably better than Black Holes.. or The Resistance, on the basis that I am likely to skip less tracks than on the two previous albums.

The only complete no no for me is the Michael Jackson rip, Panic Station. Apart from the wholesale lifting of the riff from Thriller, Matt also steals some of the vocal phrasing too. I appreciate this is very tongue in cheek, but I never liked MJ in any shape or form so the "joke" hurts. You can also sing the lyrics to another one bites the dust without missing a beat.

My other concern is some tracks sound a little Muse by numbers, but this is album no. 6 so some revisiting of old themes is to be expected. After all, Muse on autopilot still wipe most of the competition off the map.

If you like the Muse sound, this will not disappoint, and several tracks, Supremacy, Madness, Liquid State, Unsustainable & Isolated System are as good as most of the Muse back catalogue. The rest are familiar enough to be Muse and different enough not to be rewrites.

I long for a harder follow up to Absolution, but in its absence, this will do nicely.

i love muse very much and also this product it is a good memory i want to keep it forever.

I liked the album and the box set very much! It's so cool. A must have for every Muse fan.

I had to return because all the vinyls skipped throughout

Los detalles de este producto son muy buenos.

Los vinilos son excepcionales

Un gran trabajo de Muse para los mas apasionados

Llegó antes de lo esperado, lo encontré a muy buen precio! Esta en excelentes condiciones!

the product itself is really good, but when we opened it the corners were bent and damaged. As we were giving it for a present, the gift reciever was a little bit dissapointed, but in all was over joyed to recieve this present. In conclusion, the product was really good, but in shipping got damaged...

Je ne commente ici que le coffret collector disponible ces jours-ci; pour ce qui est de la musique à proprement parler, je suis encore très partagé entre la consternation de ne pas retrouver un brin de ce qui faisait la réussite d'un Origin of Symmetry, et le côté addictif de certains morceaux (Supremacy, Madness) ou encore le fun de certains autres (Panic station, Liquid states).

Bref, il faudra laisser reposer quelques semaines avant de se prononcer sur la longueur...

Bon, revenons à nos moutons, le coffret en lui-même:

Format 30cmX30cm assez lourd et classieux.

Le couvercle, de couleur noire avec inscription "MUSE" très sobre, est thermo-réactif (comprenez par là qu'en posant votre main dessus, la trace de vos doigts (bleutée ou verte! ^^) restera comme "imprimée" quelques secondes sur le couvercle.

A l'intérieur, on découvre plusieurs dessins, eux aussi au format 30X30 et très conceptuels.

Les + fans les encadreront surement ^^

Juste au-dessous se logent les 2 vinyles (de couleur noire) chacun emballé dans son propre fourreau cartonné avec un artwork différent sur les 2.

Pour finir, le coffret "Luxe" de l'album, est un véritable livre avec pochette cartonnée, au format + grand qu'un boîtier CD (ça doit être du 17x17, à la louche) avec le CD + le DVD et les paroles des morceaux ainsi que de belles photos.

Bref, un excellent coffret à la hauteur, un brin + abouti encore que celui de "The Resistance".

I nostri 3 di Teignmouth stanno sperimentando e i risultati non tardano ad arrivare. Come con i Beatles, ogni album si distingue dal precedente ed ogni volta una sorpresa nuova e niente è uguale a prima. In The 2nd Law troviamo molte canzoni con grosse influenze dal mondo dell'elettronica (follow me, madness), dalla classica (survival, unsustainable, supremacy, isolated system), dagli anni '80 (panic station) passando per queen (survival), u2 (big freeze) e foo fighters (liquid state).

The 2nd Law si distacca dal precedente capolavoro The Resistance, il disco della maturità dei Muse, in questo ultimo lavoro troviamo tanta voglia di cambiare ancora direzione e scoprire nuove sonorità. Chi come me ha avuto il piacere di ascoltare anche la versione strumentale del disco ha potuto apprezzare a complessità e la ricercatezza di arrangiamenti e sonorità.

Chi critica continuando a rifarsi/riferirsi a OOS e Absolution, posso solo dire che stiamo parlando rispettivamente di 2001 e 2003. I tempi cambiano, come cambiano le persone e il modo di far musica. Se volete sentire sempre i soliti album ripetersi all'infinito, abbandonate i Muse e ascoltatevi gli AC/DC.

Disco stra consigliato a fan e non, la versione deluxe è fantastica. Oltre alle stampe di alta qualità, i cd/e dvd sono diversi dalle versioni commercializzate separatamente. Merita anche acquistare il download in 24 bit 96khz che ha un mastering completamente differente e che rende ancora più giustizia a questo ottimo disco.