Feeling Good. New Single Due Nov 19th.
Feeling Good. Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse. NOT by Matt!	I have not heard the Nina Simone version of Feeling Good, but cannot consider the Muse version as a "cover"! An interpretation, yes, but not a cover in the "boyband / girlband" sense. Most of those are relatively close to the originals.

All the text below was written as I listened, so is somewhat analytical in style.
1 New Born kicks off the album very strongly. Deceptive rippling keyboard? and bass, with a clear lyrical line, then a tempo shift, and Fuzz Guitar breaks in, with a much heavier bass. The lyrics resume, over an insistent beat, with a very impressive climactic section instrumentally and vocally: the opening almost reappears thematically, but with guitar histrionics as well. A third lyrical phase, over the "insistent" section follows, repeating the climax as before. A coda then follows, winding down to a strange link passage - to	7 Micro Cuts Begins with scale passages and pulsing syncopated chords over steady drums reminds me of something. Vocals enter (very high) at 30 secs Almost painful! Climax at (1.05). 1.33 repeats. 2.10 extreme high climax, inc guitar? at extreme high! Then instrumental, with at 3.05 a sudden break with more traditional guitar/bass/drums passage finally stopping without fadeout! I get the feeling 'cos of the vocal extreme that this would not be a wise stage song!
2 Bliss Is the first track I heard thanks to Simon. Again it begins with rippling keyboards, which run through the whole track, but Bass and drums crash in and Matt joins in vocally, soaring majestically! The sections repeat for a second time, but with variations. The opening returns almost unchanged, then runs into the soaring vocal section again, with a further reprise of the opening at the close - fades. This is one hell of an impressive track! Play it again!	8 Screenager Very quiet start here! More exotic percussion, guitar near acoustic. (1.29) keyboard effects again as Matt ascends the scales again vocally. (2.16) a repeat again, "Cracks in the memory. For the holes in our souls" (3.00) builds as before, Quasi wordless in places.The voice is almost an instrumental line. Short coda very like the start. Tinkling percussion fades away.
3 Space Dementia Quiet piano over "atmospherics", lead to piano trills under bass and drums. Lower register vocals here at first, but again a high climax, followed by a gentler section, with processed? vocals and a lot of keyboard? effects. Again the sections repeat, with later a long wordless, vocal and a coda with huge chords, marching over a series of effects, possibly synthesised or guitar, leading to a phased discordant close! This needs repeating too. Its so unusual! (Very apt title!)	9 Darkshines The whole band begin here, with very clean guitar effects over steady backing. (0.18 vocal entry, relaxed and breathy, but at 0.51 the "Darkshines" lyric causes a climax with staccato drums, followed by guitar solo. The breathy vocal section is reprised (1.32), as is the climax, with staccato drums and angry guitar! 2.39 solo guitar modulations again, over stready accompaniment. At 3.14 the mood changes, with clean guitar lines, until at 3.50 staccato drums return as "Darkshines" passage resumes. Ending simply disintegrates!
4 Hyper Music Feedback and fragmentary guitar open, leading to a section not unlike "Taxman" by the Beatles! Wordless vocals begin, with very strong bass and drums as the lyrics proper begin. A staccato section brings the "Taxman" section again, but much of the track is intricate Bass, drums and vocal. The sections again repeat, in order. Guitar is further back in the mix until nearer the close, when low feedback again is used with guitar fragments again.	10 Feeling Good There has to be a total break here and we get it, with very sparse instrumentation at the start Breaking at "Feeling Good"(0.39) into a heavier passage. At 1.19 Processed vocals are used, breaking back into the "Feeling Good" section."New Dawn, New Life" A higher wordless?(2.30) section follows over very light backing which then fades (on "Feeling Good!"), leading into the concluding track.
5 Plug In Baby Was not surprisingly the first single from the album.It is linked here by a feedback fragment, but springs into life with complex bass and guitar which has a really intricate line.The vocal line is against bass and drums, but also a keyboard line too.There is a well constructed Chorus "My Plug in Baby Crucifies My enemies" The whole is then repeated with Matt in High register yet again at the close until the guitar and bass bring the feedback as, in effect a short coda again.	11 Megalomania This track feels different from the start, with swirling keyboards and wordless vocal (0.40) A shift leads to the vocal proper. As the sound of the pipe organ enters we are taken by surprise (1.48) with a Major climactic passage! Once again the sections repeat, but with the organ added this time as well. The impressive climax is extended further on the reprise, with Matts high vocals blending in too, and a final major Chord to end with! This is very appropriate given the title! Nice touch Matt! I wonder if he knows "Archangel" by the Walker Brothers? This too demands a reprise!
6 Citizen Erased Is another long track.Guitar effects begin, Then the others join in (0.22), with chords over drums. This continues with more augmentation (0.45) under Matt's Mid range vocal line. (1.28) A short instrument only section is followed by higher register vocals and then (1.57) a fade to a much gentler section with keyboard? guitar and other effects. This builds (with multi track vocals) later until (3.42) the chordal section reappears, but now with guitar glissando and other very spectacular effects. At 4.56 another new section, cymbals, bass, wordless vocal and both keyboard and guitar effects. (6.00) quiet chords, wordless vocals, atmospherics,(6.36) "Wash away, clean your body" Very delicate vocals here. The track fades to atmospheric loops. Repeat play strongly suggested.