Muse Black Holes And Revelations. Release Date : July 11, 2006. Label: Warner Brothers. Rating: Excellent. (Screw points. To each his own!) Muse? Depeche Mode? Queen? Who the hell is this? Muse's new record is not at all what I expected. It's a super-charged, fiery rampaging destructive-space-battle, wall-of-runaway-semis collection of songs that is nonetheless broken occasionally with verging-on-corny harmonics. But a cool corniness. That's where the Queen thing comes in. It's got a bit of that 70's cheese, but it's just done so well. So well. So well. This band can do no wrong it would seem. Vicious synths, heavy heavy drums, and delicate pianos twist throughout, characterized by Matthew Bellamy's versatile voice - he yells, he whispers, he sometimes sounds like a girl. "Soldier's Poem" could be a lullaby or a Christmas carol. bottom line, this album is snarly and incredible. That's right, I paired those two adjectives together. Snarly and incredible. Song of choice : Absolutely love the power driving "Map Of The Problematique." -Andy Scheffler Elsewhere Muse website Published : January, 2007.