Origin of symmerty is in no
doubt a true work of art, it’s everything an album should be and it’s
structured very well and it’s music genres go from classical/opera inspired
music to “Deftones” styled Nu metal .
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New Born is
the opening track of the album and its piano riff bring the listener into the
song in a majestic way and then the guitar riff takes the song into a
totally different genre style more
similar to a heavy rock song.
The track
itself talks about the fear of technology ruling the world and mankind’s body
not being important anymore because every human is connected to a big network.
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Bliss is
the second track and “the best song I have ever composed” says Matt Bellamy.
It talks
about the state of mind of giving everything without wanting anything in return
and it’s a very 80s driven song, with very progressive and cool synth arpeggios
that accompany the entire song.
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Space
Dementia is a Rachmaninov piano inspired song that was made into a rock
sounding masterpiece that talks about the feeling (Space dementia) of when
you’re in space for too long and you lose contact with other humans for too
long.
The song
itself is very diverse because it’s starts as a classical song, a violent
classical song, until the chorus when it bcomes more technological with the
addition of synth, phasers, flangers, and a loopin synth-piano
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Hyper Music
is the song that follows Space dementia, giving the album a push more into the
distortion bass/heavy singing style that muse has always had.
The lyrics
are pure hate and aggressiveness and some hypothesis say it might be
anti-religious.
The song
has an Outro that begins the intro to “plug in Baby”
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Plug In
Baby is the most important example of what a fuzz factory can do to a guitar,r
it’s the most famous muse song since its release and it’s quite psychedelic
when you listen very closely .
The song
has the same themes as “New Born” and
the lyrics are very confusing because they seem to talk about an actual
person instead it talks about a person re-built into a body in space.
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Citizen
Erased is one of the best songs in the album and it’s played with a 7-string
guitar, the riff was build around Dominic’s drum riff (that is different in
compare to the regular composing process).
The song is
very popular and it’s one of the most played by fans and cover-bands .
The song’s
themes include the existence of life and the question of its sense and meaning,
it also has references from the book “nineteen-eighty-four” where a citizen can
be erased and humanity is controlled by lies.
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Micro Cuts
is one of the most nightmare-ish themed songs off the album and it’s talks
about a dream made by Matt where he was in the desert and triangular blades
were cutting through the back of his head, referencing the micro waves that are
used (in theory) to brain wash minds by sending radiations that we don’t feel,
see and can’t void, that create impulses
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Screenager
is a quiet moment of the album because it’s very easy to listen to, with very
soft vocals by matt and very light drums.
Its themes
are about the modern teenager being raised in a world where a screen controls
the person’s mind so the person feels rejected
because of the idea of the body and fashion made by magazines and
television, it also refers to “cutting yourselves” as a need of “something
brutal to remind you what your body’s about”.
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Dark Shines
starts up the album again with a chaotic, latin-esque sounding song about a
girl (probably very young) very desirable that is a the same time very dark and
moody, but the fact of it attracts you even more.
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Feeling
Good is a cover song muse made and it’s the most popular cover they’ve ever
made, it was composed in the 1920s for a musical
It’s so
depressing in musical form but the lyrics are very positive and like most of
the album they’re about “becoming yourself” and that’s why they decided to
cover it and put it in the album.
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Megalomania
is a great album closer, there’s nothing muse has ever done that’s bigger than
this song, musically speaking.
The song
itself talks about God asking the human race why they’re continuing to
multiply? What’s the point?.
The song
was recorded with Europe’s biggest church organ and the priest of the church
asked them for the lyrics before allowing them to record, but they didn’t have
any yet
