Muse Launch New Album The Wow! Signal in Space

Muse have lengthy toyed with know-how and sci-fi of their music, however now they’re doing it in actual life, too. The alt-rock band simply introduced their new album, The Wow! Sign, by launching a particular pill over 20 miles into the environment, in partnership with Despatched Into Area. Whereas that display screen was above the earth, Muse premiered the music video for his or her new single, “Be With You,” which you’ll watch under.

The Wow! Sign is out June 26 through Warner. The ten-song LP, which additionally contains the beforehand launched single “Unravelling,” will get its title from a well-known interstellar thriller that really occurred. In 1977, a robust 72-second radio burst was detected originating from the Sagittarius constellation with a bandwidth and depth that prompt a potential extraterrestrial supply. After discovering it, the astronomer circled the now-famous sequence “6EQUJ5” and scribbled “Wow!” beside it. The remaining, as they are saying, is scientific pop-culture historical past.

Increasing on that ambiance, a press launch for The Wow! Sign describes the album as being “a mixture of cosmic thriller, existential hope, and the exhilarating chance of contact with one thing far larger than ourselves.” It helps that one of many songs is titled “Cryogen.” Both manner, Muse are going massive for his or her tenth album and follow-up to Will of the Folks, which got here out in 2022.

Learn Pitchfork’s Sunday Evaluate of Muse’s traditional Origin of Symmetry.