THE 2ND LAW

The idea of introducing Dubstep into rock is not very far-fetched, and that is as well the reason for the good parts of the album as the origin of a slight yawn that reaches your mouth by about the middle of it. Muse manage to associate prog to dubstep, alright. But they do so at rather high cost: Both genres lose a lot of their inherent authentic traits, and what comes out is necessarily rather "in the middle". This is not a bad Muse album. But it certainly is not a good one, either. It is just another one, although it is certainly one with a special idea behind it. Just not a very convincing one, if one can tell from this realization of it.