Niki N. Phaser

As I wrote in my review of Muse’s latest album, The Resistance, Undisclosed Desires is definitely single material and it would have been pathologically proggy of them not to use it as such. It’s a one of a kind track on this album, being the most mainstream on it, but we woun’t hold that against the boys, considering that they have ‘earned’ the right to be a bit poppy, once in a while. In fact, if you think about their catalogue, a track like this must be what they consider ‘experimental’. The total absence of a guitar and/or piano riff shows that they are more than a rock band, whether it is alternative, progressive, symphony or whatever else kind of rock there is.

It will be released on November 16 and it will be joined by two remixes, one by tour buddies The Big Pink and another (a really cool club cut) by The Thin White Duke (aka Stuart Price).  The video is, indeed, a bit strange and not necessarily in the good sense of the word. We have to admit, though, that it is quite a challenge to imagine a visual translation for this song. Still, the female dancer is really out of place there and she really seems to be moving to another beat. Maybe it’s a metaphor about how the song is out of place on The Resistance… 

See it on the MUSE’s MySpace

After a batch of non-album singles, British electro-rock experimental duo, The Big Pink, are finally about to release a proper album. It’s entitled A Brief History of Love and will hit the (i)stores September 14. The album is consisting of some of the previously heard songs, like Velvet, Too Young To Love or Count Backwards from Ten, but also plenty of new material. And if you are still unsure about this new band, you should get in touch with their first official single from the album, one little wonder of a song by the name of Dominos. It makes the future of The Big Pink seem very interesting, as this song, which contains synths that sound like a maternal hum on a beat that sounds like a paternal call to battle, shows plenty of freshness. The video, directed by photographer/director Tim Saccenti completes the Dominos phenomenon quite well.

Dominos VIDEO