Muse's new album, 'Will of the People,' marks a return to the guitar-heavy sound that made them festival headliners: 'We've gone back to our safe space.'
Matt Bellamy wrote Muse’s new album in a Santa Monica recording studio painstakingly decorated to resemble the so-called red room from “Twin Peaks.”
Yet as Bellamy sat composing amid a thicket of electric guitars and vintage synths — including an old Roland model he says was the same used for the “Stranger Things” theme — what really inspired him was the tumult unfolding outside the studio, which he observed through an enormous one-way mirror in the building’s front wall.
The result of his observations is Muse’s ninth studio album, “Will of the People,” on which Bellamy rhymes “a life in crisis” with “a deadly virus”“tsunamis of hate are gonna drown us.
“To me there’s a fighting spirit in [our] music, which is a form of optimism,” says Matt Bellamy. “It’s like the moment in ‘Rocky’ when Adrian tells Rocky to win.”I came to America in 2010 as a single person looking to experience L.A. for a bit — and, boy, have I had an experience. Ended up with a Hollywood actress [Kate Hudson], had a baby together and the whole cliché scenario of the ups and downs of celebrity life. Then married a Texan [model Elle Evans] and had another baby.
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