My Life Is 100% Full of Everything That Isn't Blogging

...and it hurts my soul. Heres the deal: I'm super busy. I love writing about music and sharing all the cool new stuff I find with you folks. Unfortunately, I lack the free time to write anything of actual length. I'm just writing this to let you know that MidPoints is alive!!! That doesn't change the fact that I don't have much free time, but as a peace offering I give you a series of one sentance reviews of recent music I've come across. It's mostly new stuff, but I think I might start reviewing old tunes I get my paws on. I'll try to post at least one little recap per week from now on, but no promises.

RECENT ALBUM REVIEW:

Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day

Rating: 76/100

A fun, refreshing take on modern hip-hop that fails to reach it's full potential despite a number of truly phenomenal stand-out tracks.

High Point Track: "Alive (Nightmare) ft. Ratatat"

Simian Mobile Disco - Temporary Pleasures

Rating: 72/100

Less imaginative and epic than its predecessor, Temporary Pleasures is a very solid, very fun, rather top-heavy album that relies a little too much on it's guest list despite featuring one of my favorite songs of the year.

High Point Track: "Audacity of Huge"

Pearl Jam - Backspacer

Rating: 81/100

If you've ever liked Pearl Jam, odds are you will still like Pearl Jam's latest batch of surprisingly mature and up beat alt rock jams.

High Point Track: "The Fixer"

Muse - The Resistance

Rating: 78/100

Ambitious, flawed, polished and epic in proportions, The Resistance continues Muse's upward climb on the ladder of rock with some of their best (and most boring) songs to date.

High Point Track: "Undisclosed Desires"

U2 - No Line On The Horizon

Rating: 83/100

Edge's guitars keep sounding better and Bono's lyrics keep getting cheesier, but none the less, over 30 years into their career, the biggest rock band in the world proves they can still rock though they sound their best when they don't venture to far from the formula (shiny guitars + soaring vocals) that got them to the top.

High Point Track: "Magnificent"

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New Muse - "United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage"

My view of Muse from Lollapalooza 07. Getting this close was a long and sweaty journey.

Everyone's favorite Radiohead wannabes are back and just as bombastic than ever. Muse just leaked a brand new track curiously titled "United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage" and it precedes their forthcoming fifth (fifthcoming?) album The Resistance due out September 14th. The track, which is not the albums first single, characteristically clocks in at almost six minutes and is bookended with a little tickling of the ivories. A listens through and although it sounds suspiciously like a Queen song, I'm excited about getting new material from a band who has been relatively silent since 2006's dazzling epic Black Holes & Revelations. Keep your eyes peeled for the albums first single "Uprising" which is set to be released a week before the album on September 7th. Dowload "United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage" here thanks to pma.