The Devon trio’s first overt concept album, Drones is a none-too-subtle meditation upon authoritarian repression, political manipulation, militaristic aggression and the struggle for personal liberty – familiar Bellamy obsessions unlikely to give Noam Chomsky new food for thought. Good luck pulling that off around a campfire on an acoustic guitar. Such talk was relative: the ten-minute The Globalist opens with whistling and Ennio Morricone atmospherics, segues into a thundering heavy metal midsection and closes as a grandly ostentatious piano ballad. With famously-disciplined studio veteran Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange ( AC/DC, Def Leppard) hired as co-producer with a mandate to curb Matt Bellamy’s more outlandish flights of fancy, the advance word on Muse’s seventh studio album suggested that Drones would represent a ‘back to basics’ approach for the Devon trio following 2012’s dubstep/electronica-influenced The 2nd Law. From testing headphones to reviewing albums, our experts aim to create reviews you can trust. You can trust Louder Our experienced team has worked for some of the biggest brands in music.
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