Muse are back with a new album. The Will of the People follow-up is called THE WOW! SIGNAL (no, really), and it comes out June 26 via Warner Records. It’s led by the grandiose new single ‘To Be With You’, which you can hear below.
Naturally, there’s some backstory to the album title – the transition from WOP to WOW, if you (a people) will. “THE WOW! SIGNAL takes its name from one of the most compelling interstellar mysteries of the last century: a powerful 72-second radio burst detected in 1977 originating from the constellation Sagittarius with a bandwidth and intensity that suggested a possible extraterrestrial source,” a press release explains. “The astronomer who discovered the anomaly famously circled the now-iconic sequence ‘6EQUJ5’ and wrote ‘WOW!’ on the printout beside it — giving the signal its name and cementing its place in scientific and pop-culture lore.”
For Muse, of course, none of this astronomical context is just conceptual. To promote the new single, they premiered the video by sending a specially-designed video tablet 33km up into the atmosphere.
THE WOW! SIGNAL Cover Artwork:
THE WOW! SIGNAL Tracklist:
1. The Dark Forest
2. Nightshift Superstar
3. Shimmering Scars
4. Cryogen
5. Be With You
6. Hexagons
7. The Sickness In You & I
8. Unravelling
9. Hush
10. Space Debris
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