Muse

Like Queen before it, Muse made the move from ornate, orchestral glam to a grab bag of genres—the transition happening between 2003’s grandiloquent Absolution and 2006’s scattered Black Holes And Revelations. Perhaps predictably, the band splits the difference on 2009’s The Resistance. Muse’s embrace of science fiction and the baroque has never served it better, even as the disc’s descent into disco, French pop, and full-on symphonic superheroism gets a bit giggle-inducing. 

Updated 04/20/2010