Credit: Tim Saccenti
GRAMMY® Award-winning rock visionaries MUSE release their towering new track “Hexagons” out now on Warner Records. Taken from the band’s forthcoming tenth studio album “The Wow! Signal” – coming June 26 – “Hexagons”arrives following a cryptic global billboard campaign that slowly revealed fragments of the song across the weekend.
The hunt – a staggered, clue-led broadcast – unfolded across Sydney, New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Paris and London, leading fans to hidden billboard locations where unique codes unlocked previously unheard sections of “Hexagons.” Over the course of the weekend, fans collectively assembled the track online before MUSE officially unveiled the full version today.
“Hexagons” sees MUSE pushing deeper into the futuristic electronic universe hinted at throughout “The Wow! Signal”. Opening with spiralling loops of dazzling electronica, the track steadily builds into an overwhelming rush of haunting vocals, distorted synth textures and colossal electronic drum fills. “Hexagons” captures MUSE at their most experimental while retaining the widescreen intensity that has defined the band for more than two decades.
The track follows previous album transmissions “Unravelling,” “Be With You,” and “Cryogen,” each expanding the mysterious world surrounding “The Wow! Signal’’. Inspired by the infamous unexplained radio burst detected in 1977, the album continues to explore themes of cosmic communication, technological anxiety, existential wonder, and humanity’s search for meaning in an increasingly disconnected world.
MUSE recently returned to the live stage with a special performance at London’s O2 Academy Brixton before they launch into an extensive North American tour this Summer, beginning July 2 at Milwaukee’s Summerfest and culminating at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on August 31.
All live dates can be found here.
MUSE – The Wow! Signal Tour Dates
Jul 02 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest ^
Jul 05 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater * ~
Jul 07 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center * ~
Jul 10 – Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre * ~
Jul 11 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center * ~
Jul 13 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre * ~
Jul 15 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre * ~
Jul 17 – Québec, QC @ Festival d’été de Québec ^
Jul 18 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center * ~
Jul 22 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center * ~
Jul 24 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Albany Med Health System at SPAC * ~
Jul 25 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater * ~
Jul 28 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion * ~
Jul 29 – Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion * ~
Aug 10 – Charlotte, NC @ Truliant Amphitheater – ~
Aug 12 – Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 14 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion – ~
Aug 15 – Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater – ~
Aug 18 – Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater – ~ +
Aug 20 – West Valley City, UT @ Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 22 – Ridgefield, WA @ Cascades Amphitheater – ~
Aug 23 – Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 26 – Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 27 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 29 – Chula Vista, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 31 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl – ~
^ festival
* support from Bloc Party
– support from Portugal. The Man
~ support from The Temper Trap
+ non-Live Nation date
