Some may describe Muse's music as masterpieces and their new album cover for The Resistance (due to be released on the 15th September), is in my opinion a beautiful piece of cover art. It caught my eye and since I have scoured the internet to see what inspiration was drawn to create it.I found that in a BBC Radio 1 interview with Zane Lowe, the lead singer Matt Bellamy explained that 1984, the George Orwell novel featuring a dystopian future, is the main inspiration. He was paricularly taken with the love story within the book between character Juliette and Winston. I feel that the strong, rich, warm colours within the hexagonal shapes reflect this loving emotion. The colours appear to grow stronger and brighter as they get nearer to earth, possibly suggesting a need for a stronger love for our world. You can also feel the miserable view of society, shown through the figure standing alone, far away from the earth looking down on it quite literally, with a cold detachment. This is echoed again through the colours surrounding the figure , which are more cold and darker.
The Resistance album art, has a really fresh, vibrant graphical feel to it...I look forward to seeing the rest of the artwork to go with the releases from this album.
I'm a big Muse fan and always thought that their album art reflects their music well. I really like this design which is bold and striking yet laced with intricate details to be translated as you wish. I', not seeing the 1984 refernce, maybe it's been lost in translation along the way. For me 1984 is a grey, dark unforgiving atmosphere and even the love that the two characters share is destroyed under it. Maybe there's something in the way the path cuts through the tiling towards earth? Is it that the path is coming from earth towards the lonely figure breaking it's way through the tiled barrier? Maybe, probably not.. who knows! Isn't that the whole point though, to get our minds rolling.
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