Muse are onto another winner.
Black Holes And Revelations is fucking awesome. Sure, it's shorter than
Absolution, but if you take out the utter wank tracks that Absolution had, they're pretty much the same length :P
Will it be my Album of 2006 though? I'm not quite sure yet. It's definately the best Muse album thus far, but whether I'll look back on it in December and say that it's the best album 2006 brought us, I don't know. I mean, we've had
Stadium Arcadium (
Red Hot Chili Peppers) this year, which is very good, and there's future releases by
Razorlight,
The Killers (hopefully),
Stone Sour,
Incubus,
Evanescece (I'm just expecting this to be good, not great),
Story One (I've got high hopes on this being brill), and the small matter that
Guns N' Roses might (and there is an awful lot of emphasis on might) be releasing
Chinese Democracy in November, amongst any others that might get announced/released that I can't think of just yet.
At the moment though, it's there.
Black Holes And Revelations = Album of 2006. Then again, I am a massive Muse fan. Roll on the UK Tour!!!..actually, roll on the UK tour dates!!
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Worst album of 2006? I'm highly tempted to say
Arctic Monkeys'
Whatever You Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. It's just so diabolically repetitive, it's unforgivable. I might listen to it one day and love it all over again, as I did when I first bought it, or I might just remember that, in the end, it's just not all that impressive, and probably isn't worth all the hype it got given.
The "Next Big Thing", you're next to take the stage. Show us what you've got.
-=Gav=-
