Muse frontman Matt Bellamy has spoken of the direction the band is headed in with their next album, promising it will have a “more rock sound” than their latest efforts.
“The last two albums, we sort of veered away from our instruments a little bit,” Bellamy told Radio.com. “We sort of focused on things like synthesisers, drum machines and various electronics and stuff. I kind of feel like on this next album, we’re going to veer back towards musicianship again and focusing on our own instruments: guitar, bass and drums. It’s probably going to be a bit of a rawer album, and definitely a bit more rock, I’d say.
“The main focus is we’re gonna record a bunch of music, probably a conceptual album of some kind, so it probably will be album length.”
Muse’s last concept album was the critically-acclaimed Black Holes and Revelations, so fans will no doubt be pleased to hear that they are going down that route again following the lukewarm reception given to their last album The 2nd Law.
Bellamy also suggested that the band would look into another way to distribute the album, saying: “How we release it is up for debate. The industry is moving so fast, you don’t really know… I don’t think we’ll be ready to put another album out until early 2015 or something, and I think around that time we’ll just look at what’s going on and make a judgement in the moment rather than thinking ahead, because things are changing so quickly.”
