Muse - 'Invincible' (Warner Bros) Released 09/04/07

Dear Matt Bellamy: God, quite unlike Muse, is also invincible, but if he’s up there at all it’s quite likely he’d have infinitely preferred you to ape some other religion instead of this half-arsed ‘Ave Maria’ bollocks. If Bono won X Factor it's easy to envisage this cod-Live Aid hymn as his finale; militant drums, earnest vocals and a theramin that screams like an elderly soprano undo all the good that the rest of B'lack Holes and Revelations' did on making non-Muse fans temporarily forgive the squawking inflicted on them over the last years. It’s barely two minutes in and it’s suddenly turned into a Bill and Ben theme song. Old-school Christianity had some outstanding tunes, but you just had to go for the evangelicals. Good grief.