Review: Muse's 'The 2nd Law'

The English rock band Muse set off a worldwide hunt for synonyms for "overblown" earlier this year when it unleashed "Survival," a proudly Nietzschean piece of choral apocalypse that somehow became the official anthem of the London Summer Olympics. Yet it turns out "Survival" was just a warm-up: With a title inspired by the second law of thermodynamics, Muse's latest studio album opens with a tune called "Supremacy" (think Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" remade for a James Bond flick) and only grows...

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