Answering questions from fans on the Muse forum, bassist Chris Wolstenholme confirmed that work had started on the follow-up to the band’s 2006 album “Black Holes and Revelations”. Chris wrote: “It would be nice to have the album out in the second half of 2009, but we have not set ourselves any targets. It is more important for us to make the best album we have made to date, and if that means it comes out in 2010 then we don’t mind.”
“There is a new song in three parts, more of a symphony than a song, which I have been working on sporadically for many years,” said frontman Matt Bellamy. “As a large percentage of the composition is orchestral, I have never wanted to collaborate with a string arranger as they may make it ‘theirs’. So I have been arranging the orchestral elements myself, which is taking a long time. It should hopefully make the next album as the final three tracks.”