Title: Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
Year/Genre: 2006, Alternative Rock
Condition: New

Cultural Facts:

1. Written in the mid-2000s amid anxiety over global politics, it channels the band’s fixation on surveillance, war, and looming technological dystopia.

2. Recorded partly in an isolated studio in rural France, the sessions encouraged the group to push further into sci-fi and apocalyptic imagery.

3. Its success completed Muse’s shift from UK cult favorites to a touring institution on the international arena and festival circuit.