Over their 20+ years in the business, British rock trio Muse have managed to defy categorisation. What started as a Radiohead-inspired (some would say imitating) three-piece has evolved into one of the biggest acts on the planet, rivalling the likes of Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys in the race for Brit band supremacy. As a live proposition, they’re second to none, and as a creative force, the Teignmouth trio rarely seem to stand still.
This constant boundary-pushing makes them ideal test track candidates. A chameleonic, ever-shifting outfit that rarely settles on one sound or genre for long, Muse have evolved to encompass musical influences as far-ranging and eclectic as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prince, Jeff Buckley, Chopin and countless others. Listing every genre and style covered across the band’s nine official studio albums would be impossible, suffice to say that funk, space-rock, opera, dubstep, baroque and heavy metal have all been incorporated at one time or another.
