Dead Star / In Your World

Bellamy and co. at their best

Devons finest serve up yet another fantastic couple of songs with this single. Deadstar is an excellent song with Matt trying out a strange style of slurred singing against powerful guitar riffs and a driving bassline. In Your World begins with a beautiful piece of a piano before changing to a thumping guitar driven anthem. It's impossible to compr...  Read full review »

Deadstar/in your world

More fine examples of the unique music by matt Bellamy and muse, Deadstar/In Your World are both unique in their own ways. Deadstar combines the heavier, rock side of muse with their usual soft though emotive singing. Excellent in every way, Bellamy seems to change whatever your mood you are in, to the tone, feeling and ambience of the music he plays. Along with excellent drumming by Dominic and the customary first-rate performance by this is by far one of the most distinct pieces by Muse, furthered by being solely released as singles and on their DVD, hullabaloo. The release of these 2 singles made muse fans have the need to buy and then await their forth coming album and singles, which turn to be no disappointment.
To make this spectacular release even better, they have included on cd1 the B-side "Futurism" an...  Read full review »

A new phase - and it's even better than the last

Muse are developing. Very quickly. Showbiz was the beginning of a rollercoaster ride that looks like it stretches on for miles yet. And Deadstar/In Your World is a new, even bigger loop.

When I first heard these songs, it was live at Doncaster Dome in November last year. I was eager to see what direction Muse had taken in their new material, and it seems they've headed off into deeper, heavier places. Deadstar especially, with its pounding intensity owes more to metal than classic guitar rock. It was said that Muse have tried to capture the live atmosphere of their songs, and it looks a lot more rough round the edges, as if it were live.

In Your World begins with a gentle rippling piano then bursts into a filthy guitar sound...  Read full review »

Dead Star (is not dead) and 'In your world' (it needs to be)

This is their best yet. They've got all the usual, storming riffs, heart tearing emotion and passion, sound intensity that seems impossible to come from just three people (but does, their awesome live too). And on top of that they've got originality of style as well...  Read full review »

Not bad, my friend, not bad at all.

The first time I heard Deadstar, I kind of didn't 'get' it. It's not like other Muse songs. Well, it is. Kind of. I mean yeah, it owes a lot to classical music (particularly the romantic era), and comprises of energetic rifts, sublime harmonies, and almost improbably high, sustained notes (how he reaches them without squeezing very tightly is a complete mystery)...but it's a sort of more intense, innovative, experimental, manic sound (which is not to say that his older music isn't intense, innovative, experimental and manic. 'Cos it is. See?) It took me a few listens bef...  Read full review »