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Muse have followed up 'Won't Stand Down' with 'Compliance' and announced their ninth studio album Will Of The People. As the album title—and the titles of its two singles so far—suggest, this is to be a record concerned with the downfall of civilisation as we know it. 

Following the unsettling rock and political quasi-screamo of 'Won't Stand Down', 'Compliance' is a melancholy downturn that sounds a little bit Guns N' Roses.

"‘Compliance’ is about submission to authoritarian rules and reassuring untruths to be accepted to an in-group," frontman Matt Bellamy said. 

On the album as a whole he said:

“Will Of The People was created in Los Angeles and London and is influenced by the increasing uncertainty and instability in the world. A pandemic, new wars in Europe, massive protests & riots, an attempted insurrection, Western democracy wavering, rising authoritarianism, wildfires and natural disasters and the destabilization of the global order all informed Will Of The People".

Will Of The People Tracklist:

1. Will Of The People
2. Compliance
3. Liberation
4. Won’t Stand Down
5. Ghosts (How Can I Move On)
6. You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween
7. Kill Or Be Killed
8. Verona
9. Euphoria
10. We Are Fucking Fucked

Will Of The People arrives 26 August via Warner.

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