Muse announce one-off UK concert and 10th album 'The Wow! Signal'

Muse will play a one-off UK concert at London O2 Academy Brixton on Good Friday (3rd April) to celebrate the announcement of their 10th studio album ‘The Wow! Signal’.

Featuring 10 songs, ‘The Wow! Signal’ is released on Friday 26th June and it takes its name from a narrowband radio signal detected in 1977 that suggested the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Fans who pre-order ‘The Wow! Signal’ from Muse’s official UK/EU store before 11.59pm on 24th March will get access to a pre-sale for the Brixton gig that starts at 10am on Wednesday 25th March. Any remaining tickets go on sale on Friday 27th March.

Following last summer’s bombastic lead single ‘Unravelling’, which saw Matt Bellamy knock out colossal riffs on an 8-string guitar, Muse have premiered the second track ‘Be With You’.

The slow-building track starts off in minimalistic realms with church organs and electronic pulses, before morphing into a towering rock anthem.

‘Be With You’ comes with a cinematic video starring Ella Balinska (Resident Evil, The Occupant) and directed by Nico Paolillo (Deafheaven, Bad Omens).

A description of the album reads: ‘The WOW! Signal’ takes its title 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.

‘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.’

Reflecting these themes, the album explores ‘a mix of cosmic mystery, existential hope, and the exhilarating possibility of contact with something far greater than ourselves.’

Muse’s ‘The Wow! Signal’ track-listing:

The Dark Forest

Nightshift Superstar

Shimmering Scars

Cryogen

Be With You

Hexagons

The Sickness In You & I

Unravelling

Hush

Space Debris

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