The airy backing track of “Get Up and Fight” could pass for Balearic pop or a Sweetener outtake, while those whoa-ohs during state-of-the-art guitarless rocker “Thought Contagion” should be of great interest to both satellite radio providers and Imagine Dragons’ copyright lawyers. The song then becomes an uncanny homage to George Michael. “Something Human” requires using Muse and trop house in the same sentence, at least until the acoustic guitars arrive. Simulation Theory is another deliberate pivot into the present. Like Coldplay but without the advantage of rapper cosigns, they’ve moved from “Radiohead if they still played alt-rock” to “Radiohead if they got into EDM.” They’ve produced two solid decades of singles that are enjoyable enough when divorced from the insufferable political significance or higher intelligence they use as filler for their full-lengths.
#MUSE SIMULATION THEORY FREE#
Bellamy’s megawatt vocals and vague platitudes about breaking free and overcoming something or another: There is little functional difference between Muse and “Fight Song,” especially since most people encounter them in four-minute chunks on corporate radio, anyway. Production from Rich Costey, Shellback, Mike Elizondo, and even Timbaland.
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