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Muse frontman Matt Bellamy has elaborated to give further insight into the writing of the band's more 'stripped back' new album.
The band released their sixth album The 2nd Law just last year, but say they have already started work on their next LP. Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine, Bellamy said that he and the band had a very clear vision about what they wanted to do - having started work straight after their massive gig at Rome's Olympic Stadium, which is released on CD and DVD this week.
"It's interesting because the writing pretty much began the next day after the Rome show," he said. "I've got a pretty good picture of what I'd like the next album to be like. It's the come-down and the sort of waking up the next day being like, 'What the fuck? What the fuck? That was crazy'.
"In some ways, the band has gone on this pretty insane journey since we formed as teenagers. Back then, we weren't very outgoing on stage. We were very sort of off to ourselves, hiding behind the music. In some ways, the Rome gig almost represents a complete upside-down journey of personality from where we started. I want to bring it back to just being about the music that we are playing, about the instruments, the guitar, the bass, the drums and these personalities."
He continued: "I have this strong feeling that the next album should be something that really does strip away the additional things that we've experimented with on the last two albums, which is electronics, symphonics and orchestral work and all that kind of stuff. I kind of feel like it will be nice to reconnect and remind ourselves of just the basics of who we are."
Watch Muse perform 'Madness' live at Rome Olympic Stadium below
However, despite wanting to go back to basics, Matt said that Muse have no intentions of repeating themselves.
"When I say I want to go back, I don't mean go back to the kind of music we made when we started," he said. "That would be disastrous. I mean, go back to the mentality that we had when we started, which was just us wanting to be good on instruments and wanting to play together and make music that was organic in nature. I think that will be where we set off on our next album."
Muse Live At Rome Olympic Stadium is out now.
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