The Resistance (2009)
The Resistance is a 2009 alternative rock album by Muse.
Muse built their fifth album around scale. Recorded by the band themselves at a studio on Lake Como, The Resistance welds arena rock to orchestral sweep and electronic pulse, with Matthew Bellamy's lyrics turning toward surveillance, resistance, and love under pressure. Nineteen Eighty-Four hangs over the whole record. It closes with 'Exogenesis: Symphony,' a three-part, thirteen-minute suite scored for full orchestra that pushes the trio further into classical territory than any of their earlier work. Between the falsetto hooks and the bombast, it is a concept album about holding onto something private in a watched world.
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What is The Resistance about?
Muse built their fifth album around scale. Recorded by the band themselves at a studio on Lake Como, The Resistance welds arena rock to orchestral sweep and electronic pulse, with Matthew Bellamy's lyrics turning toward surveillance, resistance, and love under pressure. Nineteen Eighty-Four hangs over the whole record. It closes with 'Exogenesis: Symphony,' a three-part, thirteen-minute suite scored for full orchestra that pushes the trio further into classical territory than any of their earlier work. Between the falsetto hooks and the bombast, it is a concept album about holding onto something private in a watched world.
When was The Resistance released?
The Resistance was released in 2009.
Who made The Resistance?
The Resistance is by Muse.
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A few thoughts on The Resistance
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is the obvious companion, the dystopia the lyrics keep circling. For the same orchestral-rock ambition, Radiohead's OK Computer works the anxiety of the surveillance age into sound. And the film V for Vendetta shares the record's appetite for romantic rebellion against a controlling state.
Alt-rock albums that reach for the epic
Muse built The Resistance around scale, welding arena rock to orchestral sweep and closing with a thirteen-minute symphony. These albums reach for the same grandeur, chasing big ideas and bigger arrangements, the kind of records that treat the studio as an orchestra pit and dare a rock band to sound enormous.
Restless guitar bands and their breakthroughs
Underneath the bombast of The Resistance sits a restless guitar band raised on nineties alternative rock. These breakthrough records trace that lineage, the moody, searching guitar albums that taught a generation of bands how to be loud, strange and heartfelt at the same time.