Grammy Award-winning English rock titans MUSE unveil their new single, 'Nightshift Superstar', and its accompanying music video.
The Wow! Signal, out June 26, arrives as the band prepare to embark on a major North American amphitheater tour this summer, kicking off July 2 at Milwaukee’s Summerfest before concluding at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on August 31. Fueled by an irresistible hook, driving bassline, and a collision of rock, disco and French house influences, ‘Nightshift Superstar’ continues the sonic expansion of The Wow! Signal.
As deliriously urgent as anything Muse have shared yet, ‘Nightshift Superstar’ blurs their signature fiery rock with funky French house — sweeping up driving disco rhythms, orchestral flurries, pinwheeling guitars, and choir vocals in the process. In the midst of it all, Matt Bellamy sings about a subject who beckons him into a world of sleepless thrills: “Kiss that kills the pain, I crave again / Now I can’t stay clean, you’re my darkest dream / I need you one more time / Dancing free, you are, a nightshift superstar.”
Listen to ‘Nightshift Superstar’ on F1 Tracks.
The song offers another glimpse into the world of of The Wow! Signal, which is named after an infamous unexplained interstellar event. Last month, the band shared the fourth transmission so far — the towering ‘Hexagons’, which fans unlocked by participating in a scavenger hunt spanning Sydney, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Paris, and London. Before that came the utterly explosive ‘Cryogen’ and the epic, hopeful ‘Be With You’.
The music and visuals that Muse have released so far are revealing the new album’s themes bit by bit. The Wow! Signal takes its name from one of the most compelling interstellar mysteries of the last century: a powerful 72-second radio burst detected in 1977 originating from the constellation Sagittarius with a bandwidth and intensity that suggested a possible extraterrestrial source. The astronomer who discovered the anomaly famously circled the now-iconic sequence “6EQUJ5” and wrote “WOW!” on the printout beside it — giving the signal its name and cementing its place in scientific and pop-culture lore.
