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The new Muse album Absolution, out in Germany on September 22, might well be one of the most interesting releases to hit the turntables this fall. Though it has some weak spots, sounding like Radiohead on a bad trip or trying to imitate the sheer beauty of Beth Gibbons songs, it basically is a show of what "ballroom-dancing punk poets with fire in their eyes and grit in their veins," as New Musical Express puts it, can do.