2011年8月，MUSE终于完成了长达两年Resistance世界巡迴，之后随即开始着手全新专辑的製作，团员3人很快地就在4週内完成了新专辑《The 2nd Law》当中13首曲目的胚胎雏形。《The 2nd Law》的专辑名称和主题发想是来自于热力学的第二定律，第二定律的主要精神是在阐释：在所有变换过程当中都是要付出代价的，如果你扔下某个事物不管，经过一段时间，它会腐坏、锈化、破碎、损耗、甚至是消逝。关于2012，人们有着许多的末日啓示，无法预知未来的你我在环顾四週的同时，可以确认的是，能源危机、经济萧条、政治动盪…这一切溷乱正在发生。面对着我们身处世界的动盪不安，MUSE藉由《The 2nd Law》这张创作，来彰显这些将要人类自我偿还的问题。
一直深信的既有法则即将被推翻，在迈入乐团最大胆的音乐转变之前，先藉由我们都熟悉的MUSE戏剧化摇滚「Supremacy」，做了承先启后的回顾；电气分子缓慢浮游，首发单曲「Madness」在晦暗不明的悸动与脉冲节拍的摆盪中，开始颠覆MUSE音乐系统中那些我们所熟悉的化学方程式，不仅是主唱Matt个人最喜爱的生平创作，也被酷玩乐团(Coldplay)主唱Chris Martin公开讚扬为“MUSE历年最佳作品”；结构彻底改变，「Panic Station」染上来自另一个时代的复古摇滚舞曲神韵；「Prelude」以萧邦的「离别曲」启动连锁反应，衔接在后的话题单曲「Survival」，破天荒地被遴选为2012年英国伦敦奥运官方指定主题曲，逐渐急升狂飙且刺激肾上腺素的吉他音符、叠上不断聚集扩大的铿锵合声，将系统内的分子运动速率，推至前所未有的极限高峰；宛如超新星爆发后的重新启动，「Follow Me」的开端有着主唱Matt儿子出生前的砰砰心跳节奏，为曲名做了最好的呼应，除此之外，此起彼落的星光闪耀，更象徵了希望与信念的重新点燃；开始寻找下次的变化，曲式持续蜿蜒流动犹如一头贪婪野兽，融入取样自华尔街证券现场交易声的「Animals」，将鄙视之情表露无遗；悠扬的管弦乐促使扰动渐缓，突然间绿意盎然、天水蔚蓝佔据视网膜，「Explorers」悼念起原有系统裡的那些美好排列组合；怀念幻觉接续时光逆流，耳膜传来八零年代的声音，「Big Freeze」加入INXS及U2所融合出的催化剂，持续蜕变；「Save Me」及「Liquid State」共同打造出MUSE终极变种结构，破天荒地由贝斯手Chris担任创作及演唱重责，在彻底完成第二法则之前，跃出週期表的限制、尽情重组；《The 2nd Law》的最终样貌底定，由二部曲「The 2nd Law: Unsustainable」、「The 2nd Law: Isolated System」完成最后的主题妆点，依循其轮廓着上震慑的音乐色彩！
第二定律的应用范畴其实是没有侷限的，可以微小至单一个人这样的有机体，成为一个封闭系统，也可以推至整个文明社会、人类世界，甚至是整个宇宙。碎裂的吉他音牆、震慑心魂的琴音、大量的管弦乐编排，加上值得再三咀嚼的人文思维词句，MUSE在《The 2nd Law》这个封闭系统裡，不断增加实验性的音乐能量，在破坏及重组之间实现了他们的奇想思绪，更在无法预期的分裂与融合的接续循环之中，寻找出全新法则！

"Rolling In The Deep" will be the first single released from the album. It will be released on 16 January 2011.

A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships is the third studio album by English pop rock band The 1975, scheduled to be released on 30 November 2018 by Dirty Hit and Polydor Records.

The Manchester-bred band has built its reputation here and overseas on the strength of its rollicking live shows as well as its self-titled 2013 debut album, which entered the UK album chart at No. 1. It has done well over half a million in sales and stream album equivalents, fueled by the success of the gold-certified single Chocolate. October 2015 s Love Me marked the first single to be released from The 1975 s upcoming new album I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it - which is due from Dirty Hit / Interscope Records on February 26, 2016. The 1975, which is vocalist / producer Matthew Healy, drummer / producer George Daniel, guitarist Adam Hann and bassist Ross MacDonald, have performed on Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Released on September 9th 2013
Official artwork coming soon
Tracklistings TBC

The hotly tipped 20-year-old singer-songwriter debuts with a cool, confident record that occasionally blends into pleasant monotony.