Muse's Matt Bellamy Says Guitar is 'No Longer a Lead Instrument'

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy said the guitar was “no longer a lead instrument” and that its days as a focal point of music are numbered. His comments came after he’d described the band’s next album, currently in progress, as an act of “era-blending,” and far more experimental than anything they’d done before. “The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument," Bellamy told the BBC in a new interview. "And I think that's probably a good thing. What's exciting about this period of music is you can mix classical with hip-hop and rock in the same song. As a rock band you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums." He added that latest Muse track “Thought Contagion” marked the first time they’d used “big [Roland TR] 808 [drum machine] drops and stuff,” and continued: “We've always kept an eye on what's gong on, and we've taken influence from things we think are cool in contemporary music. It's always been a theme." Listen to Muse's "Thought Contagion" He returned to his earlier phrase when he said: “It's almost like genre was an aesthetic that people attached themselves to, not just in music...

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