Originally Posted by obi

muse have always been mainstream, but circa 2001-2004 nobody complained because they were refreshing. I hope that origin of symmetry remains as timeless to me in twenty years as i find it now.

The trouble is now that they aren't particularly refreshing. Yeah, they sound different from the 100,000 indie bands that plague our charts these days but in comparison with their older material they are thoroughly disappointing. Exogenesis sounds good but they filled the rest of the album with a lot of poppy filler.

They're not bad now by any means, just uninteresting. When it comes to riffy, spacey anthemic music, there's other bands i've found.