Muse Origin Of Symmetry Download
Thibaut Silverman
The album title derives from the 1994 book Hyperspace by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, which suggests the title The Origin of Symmetry for a future book about the discovery of supersymmetry, a reference to On the Origin of Species. According to the Muse songwriter, Matt Bellamy: "Everyone's been writing about the origin of life so now they'll start looking at the origin of symmetry; there's a certain amount of stability in the universe and to find out where it originates from would be to find out if God exists."[8] Whereas the Showbiz lyrics had "wallowed in heartbroken angst", Bellamy's lyrics moved to "sci-fi surrealism".[9]
Origin of Symmetry was released on 18 June 2001.[10] It was originally scheduled for release in the United States through Maverick Records, which had also released Showbiz. However, Muse left Maverick when they demanded Bellamy rerecord the album with less falsetto, and it was not released in the US until 2005.[11]
On 6 December, 2019, Origin of Symmetry was remastered and reissued as part of the Origin of Muse boxset, alongside Showbiz, demos, live performances and other material.[30] On 18 June 2021, the album's 20th anniversary, Muse released a remixed and remastered version, Origin of Symmetry: XX Anniversary RemiXX.[31] A collaboration with the producer Rich Costey, who worked on several later Muse albums, it features a "more open, dynamic and less crushed sound".[32] The new mixes also restore elements that were originally muted or obscured, such as string sections on "Space Dementia", "Citizen Erased" and "Megalomania", and a harpsichord on "Micro Cuts". The album features new cover artwork by Sujin Kim.[31] The Pitchfork critic Jazz Monroe described the reissue as "definitive ... even more colossal and timeless".[18]
"Feeling Good" was included on the album because it was a piano based song, and was a favourite of a girlfriend Matt had at the time.[2] The standard release of the album was also originally intended to include many songs that would later become B-sides, including "Shrinking Universe", "Tesseract" ("Futurism") and "Natural Disaster" ("Nature_1"), as well as unidentified songs entitled "Origin of Symmetry" and "Love Bleach".[5][6]
The promo CD sits in a flat plastic box with a Muse logo on it, which is held together by screws in two corners of the case. The aforementioned CD originally came with a perspex screw driver. Two versions of the promo CD were distributed in the UK. These two versions only differ in the plastic the box is made from; one tinged yellow and the other grey. A similar promotional CD was used in France, some copies of which were distributed in plastic boxes as with the UK version.
The album was originally released as a CD-ROM with the MuseTV feature linked to online bonus material. This later ceased to function once the MuseTV media had been removed from the Internet. The CD was available in either a digipak or jewel case.
On 19th May 2021, it was announced that Muse will be releasing a fully remixed and remastered version of Origin of Symmetry, stylistically named Origin of Symmetry: XX Anniversary RemiXX, in celebration of the album's 20th anniversary. The album was remixed by the band with long-time collaborator Rich Costey, providing a more clear, dynamic and less crushed sound to the album. The album features no re-recorded parts, but the new mixes highlight certain parts of the original songs that were previously buried or muted on the original album, such as string sections in "Space Dementia", "Citizen Erased" and "Megalomania", and a harpsichord on "Micro Cuts". The remix also includes the Japanese bonus track Futurism. In terms of design, it features a new, modernised version of the album cover made by artist Sujin Kim.
The 20th Anniversary LP box contains sleeves which are of the same design as on the original vinyl, but the main artwork has been updated, with the antennas and the environment looking alot more detailed and dystopian.
There's a common misconception that the 21st century started in the year 2000. In fact, as there was no year zero, the year 2000 is actually part of the 20th century, a century that witnessed the birth and evolution of popular music. From blues to rock n roll, from pop to soul, from reggae ska and funk to punk, rap, metal, indie and electronica. All created within one person's lifetime. But, in the last 10 years of that century, more and more music had started looking to the past for ideas, taking inspiration from the innovators that went before, perhaps scared to glimpse what lay ahead. The new millennium started on January 1st, 2001; the same year Muse released their second album Origin of symmetry, an album that sounded like the future.
[MB]I read this book called Hyperspace, I think probably around the time we were recording the album, and I think in it there's a reference to the origin of species, which was talking about how evolution took place and all that kind of thing, but this whole book was putting forward this new sort of super string theory which is sort of some kind of new, a new way of combining quantum physics with Einstein's theory of relativity, that's the kind of the holy grail of physics if you like, trying to combine these two things together in one new, paradigm shift, one sort of new complete overall all-encompassing theory that, kind of y'know sounded good at the time! It was just one of those things that you just read and go "man, wow, what's going on", and yeah it just sort of spun me out and I'm sure there's a few other things that were spinning me out at the time.
But in the book it references the origin of species as being like a really important science regarding evolutional theory and it says the next major book that should be written should be called 'Origin of Symmetry' because it was talking about how, if these things turned out to be right, the big question will be 'what is the origin of symmetry?' If it's right, it will turn out that all of the, all of the universe is in some kind of perfect balance and it's perfectly holding itself together and the question is 'what is causing that?', 'what is the origin of symmetry?' It was just a sort of term that stuck with me as being a sort of more scientific way of saying 'what's the meaning of life?' I think erm, in this process of making cheesy riffs and twiddling some synth knobs and smashing a piano, I thought I might come close to it.
[ME]Yes, it is without doubt, a very glorious, overblown hysterical piece of work. But its virtuosity, ambition and imagination make it one of the decade's most forward-thinking and original rock albums.
"In revisiting the album what we found was the original mixes on the singles, like Plug In Baby and Bliss, were pretty good so they were the hardest ones to improve," frontman Matt Bellamy reveals. "It was the deeper album tracks like Micro Cuts where we were able to make massive breakthroughs."
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