No, it's the fact that Bellamy's sometimes wonderful prog-rock invention is subsumed by his pretentious scrambling for lyrical and thematic vision.
As its title suggests, Drones is largely meant to be about warfare, be it brutal and mechanised, or subtly aimed at the soul, yet one-minute interludes of JFK and longer periods of glam-metal tapping (does anyone besides Van Halen do that anymore?) push this vehicle into a fog from which it struggles to return to a more coherent form.
• Muse. Drones. Warner
• Two stars (out of five)
Single download: Psycho
For those who like: Helmet
- Shane Gilchrist
