The 2nd Law
by Muse
- Type: Album
- Released: 28 September 2012
- Label: Warner Bros., Helium 3
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 53:28
- Community rating: 2.27/5 from 27 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Muse's 'The 2nd Law' is a bombastic and experimental stadium rock album that incorporates dubstep, funk, and orchestral elements. Exploring themes of entropy and energy sustainability, the band pushes their sound to theatrical extremes, from the Queen-inspired 'Madness' to the electronic chaos of 'Unsustainable'. While divisive among fans, it showcases their ambition and refusal to stay stagnant.
Genres
Descriptors: political, science fiction
Tracklist
- Supremacy (04:55)
- Madness (04:41)
- Panic Station (03:04)
- Prelude (00:57)
- Survival (04:17)
- Follow Me (03:50)
- Animals (04:22)
- Explorers (05:46)
- Big Freeze (04:39)
- Save Me (05:08)
- Liquid State (03:02)
- The 2nd Law: Unsustainable (03:48)
- The 2nd Law: Isolated System (04:59)
Credits
- Matt Bellamy - Member
- Chris Wolstenholme - performer [performed by], bass, vocals, synth
- Dominic Howard - performer [performed by], drums, percussion, synth
- Matthew Bellamy - arranged by [orchestral arrangements]
- Laboratory Of Neuro Imaging, UCLA - artwork [neuro images supplied courtesy of]
- David Campbell - conductor
- Adrian Bushby - engineer
- Tommaso Colliva - engineer
- Alessandro Cortini - engineer [additional synth engineering by]
- Olga Fitzroy - engineer [assistant engineer at air studios]
- Tom Bailey - engineer [assistant engineer at air studios]
- Brendan Dekora - engineer [assistant engineer at easrwest studios]
- Sean Oakley - engineer [assistant engineer at shangri-la studios]
- Ted Jensen - mastered by
- Aaron Page - performer [choir]
- Antonio Sol - performer [choir]
- Baraka May Williams - performer [choir]
- Beth Andersen - performer [choir]
- Bobbi Page - performer [choir]
- Christian Ebner - performer [choir]
- Chyla Anderson - performer [choir]
- Clydene Jackson - performer [choir]
- Edie Lehmann - performer [choir]
- Francesca Proponis - performer [choir]
- Gabriel Mann - performer [choir]
- Gerald White - performer [choir]
- Greg Jasperse - performer [choir]
- Greg Whipple - performer [choir]
- Guy Maeda - performer [choir]
- Joanna Bushnell - performer [choir]
- John Kimberling - performer [choir]
- Karen Harper - performer [choir]
- Karen Whipple - performer [choir]
- Kathryn Reid - performer [choir]
- Kimberly Lingo Hinze - performer [choir]
- Michael Geiger - performer [choir]
- Oren Waters - performer [choir]
- Raven Kane - performer [choir]
- Reid Bruton - performer [choir]
- Robert Joyce - performer [choir]
- Scottie Haskell - performer [choir]
- Susie Stevens-Logan - performer [choir]
- Teri Koide - performer [choir]
- Walt Harrah - performer [choir]
- Don Markese - performer [orchestra], baritone saxophone
- Dave Stone - performer [orchestra], bass [basses]
- Oscar Hidalgo - performer [orchestra], bass [basses]
- Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick - performer [orchestra], cello
- George Kim Scholes - performer [orchestra], cello
- Suzie Katayama - performer [orchestra], cello
- Steve Richards - performer [orchestra], cello [principal cello]
- Joe Meyer - performer [orchestra], french horn
- Nathan Campbell - performer [orchestra], french horn
- Tom Saviano - performer [orchestra], tenor saxophone
- Alan Kaplan - performer [orchestra], trombone
- Charlie Morillas - performer [orchestra], trombone
- Craig Gosnell - performer [orchestra], trombone
- Nick Lane - performer [orchestra], trombone
- Alma Fernandez - performer [orchestra], viola
- David Walther - performer [orchestra], viola