Muse: “Survival” from The 2nd Law (Warner Bros., 10/2/12)
An extravagant track best exemplifying Muse’s bombast, London Olympics theme “Survival” plays to its operatic strengths (with a hearty dose of riff rock) like Queen. You’ve never heard the Olympics rock this hard, with deeply distorted down-slides trading with up-scaling piano, speed picking, wild drum fills, and backing choirs.
Pretty cool list of songs for 2012.