Muse on the cover of The Fly

The magazine is available to read online at www.the-fly.co.uk. There is an article and a review of the new album:

"Government conspiracies, intergalactic paranoia, death, destruction, disco funk, and a Wayne’s World moment to rival ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ itself: Muse return this month with an album that’s everything you could possibly expect. And a whole lot more besides...

The first thing that strikes you about Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenhome and Dom Howard is how disarmingly normal they are. Sure, much of what leaves Matt’s mouth sounds like the ravings of a long-term asylum resident (“I tend to play it down,” he admits. “I think if I came out and said all of my views, sometimes I’d come across like David Icke!”), and they talk about international travel as if they’re describing catching a bus (a fact of life when you’re a hard-working, internationally-popular band whose lead singer has recently moved to Milan), but they’re reassuringly devoid of the outward trappings and persona of fame or celebrity. As Chris says: “With us the music has always been more important than the people in the band, and hopefully it’ll stay like that. When we’re not making music we go home and live very boring lives. Well, they’re not boring, but they probably would be to anyone else. We just go home to our girlfriends rather than hanging around at the Met Bar or whatever.”
“I think it’s kind of like the inverse of someone like that Pete Doherty guy,” agrees Matt. “His fame persona is disproportionate to the size of the band. I think we’re the inverse of that.”
Indeed they are. Muse have been doing this for a few years now (12 to be precise), during which time they’ve seen many more-fashionable-but-less-talented bands come and go, all the time working hard, learning and improving. They give the impression of a band who’ve reached a level of understanding – of themselves and each other – which is allowing them, now, on their fourth album, to fully realise their enormous potential." [...]