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Generally favorable reviews- based on 408 Ratings
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Positive: 287 out of 408
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Mixed: 77 out of 408
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Negative: 44 out of 408
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Oct 2, 2012
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Oct 3, 2012
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Oct 4, 2012It's not as bad as I thought it would be, but I realised after a while that I laughed my way between 'Follow Me' and both 'The 2nd Law' tracks. What was quite weird was, considering they're both title tracks, 'The 2nd Law' tracks don't feel like part of the album at all.
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Oct 12, 2012"Not a bad album at all. It has very great musical detail, and with [Matt's] soothing vocals. Though the album doesn't include as much great songs on the album and with some of the song's not being exactly 'perfect' and 'accomplishing', the album does give a great direction to a new musical era."
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Apr 23, 2013
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Oct 15, 2012
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Dec 7, 2016
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Oct 9, 2012Pretty disappointing effort as far as I'm concerned. Muse turned to the fashionable sound of the day (dubstep) and made an album that will easily date itself. It's all over the place and doesn't grab me like some of Muse's earlier work has done a good job of.
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Nov 21, 2012
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Mar 6, 2015
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Jan 6, 2013
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Oct 2, 2012This album is a waste of time, if you want to listen to muse than listen to their other albums because this album is just **** boring, Bellamy is a sell out.
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Oct 2, 2012
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Aug 7, 2013
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Nov 4, 2012
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Mar 25, 2013This album is a great experience to listen too. Only a few songs on there own can be listened to regularly, but if you listen to it all at once, it will sound amazing. The only problem are the last 2 songs are terrible and out of place. Song Suggestions from this album: Big Freeze, Panic Station.
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Oct 2, 2012La tournure commerciale qu' a pris Muse et le nombre de groupies qui s'est multiplié montre l'évolution musicale pathétique des anglais.
Rien ne sert de faire une critique sur l'album puisque c'est le néant, le vide, le rien !!! -
Mar 23, 2013The 2nd Law combines 13 completely different songs to create a surprisingly magnificent whole. Best songs are Follow Me, Animals, Explorers, Save Me and Liquid State.
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Oct 3, 2012
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Oct 3, 2012Definitely worst Muse album to date. Bits and pieces of different styles and different concepts thrown in one not-so-good-smelling mess.
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Oct 2, 2012
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Dec 24, 2012
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Apr 3, 2016
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Dec 17, 2012
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Oct 2, 2012Guys!!! Some of you really need to chill out. This is a different sound for Muse but you need to appreciate that they are able to make new sounds and touch other genre's. Muse is such an amazing band and its better to show off some new sounds than to produce the same music over and over.
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Oct 5, 2012
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Oct 3, 2012Awful! The worst album Muse has so far produced. It seems to me Bellamy has spent too much time in hollywood! Really boring and disappointing. Hopefully he'll get back on track.
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Oct 2, 2012
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Oct 2, 2012
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Oct 3, 2012If you understand music, and don't have a predisposition to already hate Muse, this album is remarkable. Genre -bending, done better than anyone else, all in a package that is much better live. Muse always has been and always will be a live band, and this album will be massive in all the right ways in front of a crowd of true music fans.
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Oct 3, 2012
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Oct 3, 2012First off, you guys don't have the best professional review on here: BPM! It's funny and pretty reflective of how Muse try to present themselves to their audience. This album is just the next in a long line of diminishing returns. The official song of the Olympics has a line that reads "vengeance is mine?" Seriously?
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Oct 4, 2012
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Oct 4, 2012
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Oct 5, 2012Whatever genre Muse touch, they make it sound better than some band who are that genre only.
This album is a grower, that's for sure. I enjoyed pretty much whole album at first listen (except Explorers) but with each listen it gets better and better! Well done Muse. -
Oct 5, 2012Really good stuff. Could of done without Liquid State and Save Me but regarless the album has broken new ground and broken it well. Muse will always be one of the finest acts around.
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Oct 8, 201240% of this album is good, the rest is an experimentation soup that doesn't taste so well. It could've been an epic album, an incredible come back rock monstrous opera, but the chance has gone once again... The audio and sound engineering is amazing though...
Best: Animals, Liquid State, Isolated System
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Oct 14, 2012seems to be very under-rated so far, lots of good old fashioned muse with a lot of new style to it, not their greatest but definitely not their worst, definitely worth a listen.
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Dec 13, 2012very different from their previous albums, it's so different that it sounds like someone else wrote it. i still think though that absolution will always be their best album
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Nov 2, 2012
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Dec 26, 2012
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Dec 11, 2012
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Dec 15, 2012
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Dec 17, 2012This is one of the worst things I've ever heard. What a piece of c**p. Lobotomized Muse fans and payed music critics can say what the hell they want: this is a piece of s***t
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Dec 20, 2012I am definitely not a fan of the direction Muse are going. Unsustainable isn't terrible bad but it's really the only song within the album I can even slightly enjoy.
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Dec 20, 2012
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May 27, 2013
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Mar 4, 2013
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Mar 5, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Mar 26, 2013
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Sep 6, 2013
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Jan 15, 2015Excelente Álbum,o melhor até agora do Muse infelizmente The 2nd Law é muito subestimado.
Top 6 The 2nd Law 2012
1-Madness
2-Big Freeze
3-Panic Station
4-Follow Me
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Jun 9, 2013I liked this album. It is fresh and muse showed that can rock in other ways. I know that it has some characteristics fro dub step however the music is good. i really like supremacy, panic station (which reminds me of red hot chili peppers), follow me and madness. It's a good one. Hope you enjoy it!
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Jun 11, 2013
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Jun 26, 2013
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Aug 25, 2013
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Jun 16, 2015Not comparable to the others quality-wise, but this album is just so much fun. Everything is extremely over the top, but I love it. A great record to just jam out to or whatever.
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Sep 18, 2013OoS was the reason I can't normally function without music (rock especially). Each of MUSE albums was very close to my heart, until now. As much Resistance was a bit of let down, The 2nd Law is just disappointment. I can't think of one great song (on Resistance at least we had few older style MUSE songs which I still listen to this very day). 2nd Law is just mixture of 13 decent tracks.
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Dec 23, 2013Decent Muse album, but there isn't really any memorable songs, kind of boring actually. Panic Station is alright, and reminds me of 'Get Lucky' by Daft Punk, and Survival and Madness are good, but meh overall, if you want a really good Muse album, check out Absolution.
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Dec 31, 2016With 'The 2nd Law', Muse has laid out a grand landscape, one that is built to tell an epic tale with ups and down, spanning different genres and ideas. Even though the album ends up being lengthy, none of the songs feel distinctly Muse. It's a great story being told by the wrong story teller, and it rarely hits a high point.
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Sep 17, 2018
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Nov 18, 2013
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Jun 9, 2015A few unnecessary tracks on here sure but this album is nice and diverse with some brilliant tracks on here that are memorable. Get this album to check out; Supremacy, Madness, Panic Station, Follow Me, Animals, Save Me and Unsustainable! The songs on these albums are definitely a bit of an experiment for Muse but some of them (i'll be honest not all of them) work greatly!
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Apr 8, 2014an poor album, but don't leave the great work that doing the band, but is an poor album is the truth that I have to say, I know it hurts to say, but this album don't completing the expectatives of the band, I'm sorry for the fans of the good band
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Jun 18, 2014
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Oct 1, 2014
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Oct 13, 2014All the songs on the album are great, the only problem is that they sound nothing like each other, to the point where they could come from completely different bands. This album has no story or any connection between songs at all. However, I love songs like Animals and Explorers, so buy those if nothing else.
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Oct 13, 2014
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Jun 9, 2015
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May 21, 2015The 2nd Law is an experiment, and a successful one: both at being an insanely well-done album and at annoying diehard "Origin of Symmetry" lovers. Loved Chris' singing in "Save Me" and "Liquid State," the dubstep was surprisingly captivating, and of course there was plenty of awesomeness all around.
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Jun 17, 2015
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Jul 12, 2015Super subestimado por retardados!!!.... Aqui temos 43 imbecis que votaram de 0 a 3 pontos por essa Obra-Prima do Muse... Mesmo 4 a 6 sendo poucos pontos para essa Obra-Prima 26 cidadãos o fizeram... Tenho que concorda com esses 216 gênios...
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Oct 21, 2015In Their sixth album,Muse made an complete album in all terms,mainly in melodies great melodies,Sadly this album is underrated for "fans" only because have step pop-electronica... But Madness,Big Freeze,Panic Station,Follow Me,Supremacy,Prelude,Explorers and The 2nd Law: Isolated System & Unsustainalble are classics of Muse.. So shut up "Posers Fans" of Muse
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Jul 20, 201543 imbecis ou fãs do musers posers imbecis...............................................................................................................
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Aug 31, 2022
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Dec 30, 2015.................................................................43 Idiots..................................................... The 2nd Law is underrated for own fans of Muse is a disgrace...
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Apr 2, 201643 Stupid Fans or even not-fan
In this sixth album Muse have found his Magnum Opus, All here is perfect!!!!
In Black Holes & Revelations of 2006 have the bad, "City of Delusion" & "Hoodoo" ,In Absolution of 2003,Origin Of Symmetry of 2001 have some bad songs, and few in The Resistance 2009,
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May 11, 2016...................................................................................................................................The Masterpiece of Muse.... Hands Down
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Awards & Rankings
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Dec 5, 2012From its atmospheric nineties leanings to Bellamy's consistently on-the-mark channeling of Bono, it's not too hard to imagine The 2nd Law having a similar legacy ten or twenty years down the road: not a great album, but an adventurous one.
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Kerrang!Oct 29, 2012Does this all meld together into the cohesive whole of a perfect album? Well, no, not really. But does The 2nd Law represent a band whose only limitations seem to be the high ceiling of their collective imagination? The answer here is an emphatic yes. [6 Oct 2012, p.52]
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MojoOct 22, 2012Muse and David Campbell's melodramatic arrangements occasionally raise a smile, but if you like your rock symphonic and your vocals histrionic, The 2nd Law delivers. [Nov 2012, p.87]