A very human portrait of Drones - Southernminn.com
The first half of the album is Heavy, with a capital H. Muse returns to their decidedly guitar-centered riff-laden focus of earlier days. While the opening track, “Dead Inside” is augmented by the slightest keyboard accents in the verses and singer Matthew Bellamy’s melodramatic vocals, it surges into the harsh threats of the drill instructor’s intro to the mind-numbing “Psycho. Everything about this song is bass heavy and powerful. Injected throughout the track is the drill instructor and the screams of the protagonist as he attempts to “show his war face. “Mercy” gives a breath of melodic relief as the album’s main character pleads for mercy with music centering around an upbeat, but distorted, major key piano part in the verses before sliding into a heavy guitar based chorus. Any lightness that may have leaked from the prior song or the first part of “Reapers” is ripped away, as the protagonist to surrenders himself to the direction of “The Handler” which repeats musically with a similarly tempered beat. The song itself sounds like giving up. Using a brief snippet of a speech given by John F. Kennedy extoling the. Source: www.southernminn.com
