Muse looks beyond "albums"

English prog-rockers Muse have announced that they are flirting with the idea of abandoning the album as a vehicle for releasing new music in favour of releasing new material exclusively in single format. In an interview with NME, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Matt Bellamy said ""I like the idea of releasing a series of songs, every month or every couple of months – just putting songs out there. Almost like making the single a more prominent format, and then every few years doing a best of from that period and that would be the album. So in other words, throw out songs every couple of months and see how people like them."

But a stream of singles isn't the only possibility. Bellamy said that the new material "may just be one 50-minute symphony, do you know what I mean? Who knows?" These speculations on format surround the murmurings about Muse's recent activity and plans to release their new...whatever...late this year or early next year.