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Muse - Starlight (Warner)

UK release date: 4 September 2006
Muse - Starlight

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Black Holes and Revelations topped the charts on its release week in a summer to remember for Muse. Lead single Supermassive Black Hole gave them a top five hit and prime time TV coverage, while the Reading and Leeds festivals gave them a night apiece to headline. Muse have very definitely arrived.

As if acknowledging that their audience now includes people not ordinarily taken with "rock music" - a term ridiculously pejorative when used as a description of this Devon trio's output - Starlight is their most AOR moment to date. Major chords and twinkly piano confound expectations of what to expect from a Muse single, combining to produce a track perfectly at home on drivetime radio.

That it's not the band's most inventive moment is not the point; it showcases another side to the band's music and their staggering breadth of appeal. All this, and Matt Bellamy isn't even 30 years old yet. Starlight is nothing if not a chink of illumination on Muse's relentless journey to being the biggest band in the world.


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