Happy Labor Day! Today’s Music Monday takes the letter M to the fourth power: Muse’s “Madness.”

I’ve been a big fan of Muse, and one of my most favorite albums is Blackholes and Revelations, which I have listened to WAY too many times. However, their newer stuff doesn’t quite stick with me. So why is today’s Music Monday devoted to a song off one of their recent albums? Because this song is AMAZING. It has the kind of groove that lets you put it on repeat and it just feels like it’s supposed to be played over and over (or is it just me?), and it just builds in a fantastically minimalistic fashion. You get this fun, groovy little chorus, and then before you realize it, it’s built into something so much bigger that it explodes into a climax that would make U2’s The Joshua Tree album proud. It’s such a profound change from the beginning that when it settles right back into the ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mad-mad-madness, you have to hear it again because it just wasn’t enough.

Take a listen (and a look, this video is dystopianly impressive), and tell me I’m wrong.

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Reminder: Music Monday is about the music, not the videos. Videos are just the medium I’m using to share the music, and some videos aren’t actually videos at all. Enjoy the songs, but if YouTube forces you to watch some sort of advertisement before you can get to the music, please be patient.