Devonshire rockers, Muse are planning a special birthday celebration for their seminal album ‘Origin Of Symmetry’.
The band have announced that ‘Origin Of Symmetry’ will be remixed and released on June 18th, just short of 20 years from the original release date of July 17th 2001. The band are yet to make a comment on the new release, aside from some cryptic social media posts. Muse have worked with long term collaborator, producer Rich Costley on this project
On it’s original release, ‘Origin Of Symmetry’ garnered a positive critical reception on its release, many fans regard the band’s sophomore album as their strongest work – the band play more guitar based rock, before their endeavours into electronic and synth sounds.
The band have dropped a remixed version of “Citizen Erased”, which you can check out below. The 20th anniversary reissue is getting a snazzy vinyl release, orange and yellow clear vinyl plus remastered and remixed audio, as well as a reimagined front cover, depicting the original cover in a post-apocalyptic style.
Away from Muse, frontman Mat Bellamy is due to release a collection of solo material for record store day. The collection is called ‘Cryosleep’ and is pressed on a limited edition picture disc: the collection will include ‘Pray’ from the Game of Thrones soundtrack, as well as Bellamy’s single ‘Tomorrow’s World’, ‘Fever’ (by supergroup The Jaded Hearts Club), plus a cover of ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ by Simon and Garfunkel.
The track list for Muse’s new album is below, they’ve even included ‘Futurism’, a track that was originally included on the Japanese release.
Side M
1. ‘New Born’
2. ‘Bliss’
Side U
3. ‘Space Dementia’
4. ‘Hyper Music’
5. ‘Plug In Baby’
Side S
6. ‘Citizen Erased’
7. ‘Micro Cuts’
8. ‘Screenager’
9. ‘Darkshines’
Side E
10. ‘Feeling Good’
11. ‘Futurism’
12. ‘Megalomania’