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  • Summary: The stadium-sized English trio returns with a follow-up to its 2004 hit 'Absolution,' again produced by Rich Costey.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 32
  2. Negative: 1 out of 32
  1. A work of dazzling scope and grandeur... It is impossible to imagine any other band making music quite like this. [Aug 2006, p.106]
  2. This is the first Muse album to sound - brace yourself, outrageous melodrama fans - ordinary.
  3. Give Muse credit for remaking itself over the years into a full-blown theatrical experience, and not just another echoing rock band. But that experience is, frankly, kind of shitty.

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Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 9 out of 170
  1. chrisc
    10
    One of my favorite albums of all time. 33? I'm simply speechless that someone could listen to this and rate it that low? WTF do you want? More country music? More eyeliner punk/pop? More bow-wow-wow or whatever the Fk? Expand
    • 4 of 4 users said yes
  2. Systool
    5
    A very deceiving album... I rather appreciate the first three albums of the band, but this one just doesn't work : too much emphasis, no solid structures, not any unforgettable song... Sorry, guys, this album sucks Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. MartinF
    1
    Such a disappointment. Gentlemen you should have done better!
    • 0 of 4 users said yes

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