My initial thought after discovering Muse were coming out with a new album was... where will Muse go this time around? So far the new Muse album is coming out sometime in 2018 and 'Dig Down' is the first single from that new album TBA. Muse still hold their arena alternative rock stronghold in 'Dig Down', there is no doubt about that. Listen to the beginning of 'Dig Down' and the drone sound throughout is mimicking their signature sound (close enough) from 'Madness' but at a lower frequency. Or is that just my imagination. I actually thought that 'Dig Down' was an alternate version of 'Madness' at first. Yet I was pleasantly surprised by the band. This new album sounds as if it may be on the heavier side of lyrical ties.
Now on the second time around listening, focusing on the lyrics. 'Dig Down' talks about being at the lowest point, hell beyond that. There's a lyric about a gun to your head, love lost, falling to the ground, darkness descending and it's the end of times. Then an uplifting (more a defiant bounce of energy in the form of Bellamy's vocals) voice breaks through the smoke, Bellamy addresses how we should rise up. Is this a resistance in the making because 'Dig Down' now just became a somewhat political resistance anthem. Whether that was the band's intention (good job Muse!) or not the song is fitting for the state of the world we live in now.
The track explores a dystopian way of mind, not necessarily the landscape in which many novels have been set within. 'Dig Down' bridges a high concentrated want that involves discovering faith in the lost times when all else fails. Without perishing, people find a way to build themselves back up and in tales as long as time itself... typically that involves a resistance being born.
