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GRAMMY®
AWARD-WINNING PARAMORE SINGER TO RELEASE DEBUT SOLO ALBUM
“PETALS FOR ARMOR” SET TO ARRIVE ON FRIDAY, MAY 8TH
Hayley Williams has announced today’s premiere of “Simmer,” the first single from the GRAMMY® award-winning Paramore singer’s hugely anticipated debut solo album. The smoldering track is available now via Atlantic Records at all DSPs and streaming services; an equally fiery official video – directed by Warren Fu (Paramore, The 1975, The Strokes) – is streaming now via the official Hayley Williams YouTube channel
Produced
by Taylor York, lead collaborator in the GRAMMY® award-winning Paramore,
“Simmer” heralds Williams’ upcoming debut solo album, “PETALS FOR ARMOR,” due
May 8th.
“I’m
so ready and so incredibly humbled to get to share this project,” says
Williams. “Making it was a scary, empowering experience. Some of my proudest
moments as a lyricist happened while writing ‘PETALS FOR ARMOR.’ And I was able
to get my hands a little dirtier than usual when it came to instrumentation.
I’m in a band with my favorite musicians so I never really feel the need to
step into a role as a player when it comes to Paramore records. This project,
however, benefited from a little bit of musical naïveté and rawness and so I
experimented quite a bit more. I made this with some of the closest people to
me. Their respective talents really shine bright throughout the record. I like
to think we all make each other better and the result is something that sounds
and FEELS exactly as I’d hoped it would. Now that it’s time to put it all out
there, I can finally exhale. I’m excited to let people in to experience a
different side of myself that I’ve only very recently become familiar with.”
“Simmer”
marks Hayley Williams’ first new music release since Paramore’s chart-topping
2017 album, “AFTER
LAUGHTER.” Highlighted by the gold certified “Hard
Times,” and singles “Told
You So,” “Fake
Happy,” and “Rose-Coloured
Boy,” the LP debuted at #1 on Billboard’s “Top Alternative Albums” chart
upon its May 2017 release while also arriving on the overall
SoundScan/Billboard 200 at #6 – Paramore’s third consecutive top 10 chart
debut. Along with its popular success, “AFTER LAUGHTER” ultimately proved one
of the year’s most critically applauded releases, with The Fader, Pitchfork,
Rolling Stone, NPR, Billboard, and many more ranking it among their “Best of
2017” coverage.
Paramore
has accomplished a truly remarkable run of RIAA certified albums and singles
since coming together in Nashville in 2004, from 2005’s gold certified debut,
“ALL WE KNOW IS FALLING” featuring the gold certified single “Pressure,” and
2007’s 2x platinum certified breakthrough, “RIOT!” (with its 4x platinum-certified
hit, “Misery Business,” as well as the platinum certified singles
“crushcrushcrush” and “That’s What You Get”) to 2008’s worldwide 2x platinum
“Decode” (from Chop Shop/Atlantic’s chart-topping “TWILIGHT – ORIGINAL MOTION
PICTURE SOUNDTRACK”) and 2009’s platinum certified “brand new eyes” with its
GRAMMY®-nominated smash, the 2x platinum “The Only Exception” and the gold
certified “Ignorance.”
The
band’s RIAA platinum certified fourth album, simply entitled “PARAMORE,” made a
chart-busting debut atop the SoundScan/Billboard 200 upon its April 2013
release – Paramore’s first #1 album to date. Named the year’s “Best Rock Album”
by Entertainment Weekly, “PARAMORE” showcased a string of singles, including 2x
RIAA platinum certified hit, the top 10 “Still Into You,” and the #1 3x
platinum hit, “Ain’t It Fun.” The latter track proved Paramore’s biggest single
to date, ascending to #1 at Hot AC and Rock radio outlets nationwide, #2 at Top
40, as well as to the top 10 on Billboard’s “Hot 100” – the band’s first ever
top 10 hit on the overall chart and their highest peaking song thus far.
“Ain’t It Fun” saw Paramore taking home their first-ever GRAMMY® Award, earning
the “Best Rock Song” trophy at the 57th Annual GRAMMY® Awards. In addition,
Williams was named that year as the first winner of Billboard’s “Trailblazer
Award,” honouring her as a standout female artist who breaks from convention to
make a unique mark and pave the way for new talent.
Long
regarded as an exhilarating live act, Paramore has spent much of the past
decade-plus on the road, including countless sold out world tours and
show-stealing festival sets around the globe.
Williams
is also an accomplished entrepreneur, co-founding the vegan, cruelty-free hair
colour brand, Good
Dye Young.
GRAMMY® Award-winning English rock titans MUSE release their fiery new single, “Cryogen,” out now on Warner Records. Listen HERE. The explosive track is the third taste of the band’s forthcoming tenth studio album, The Wow! Signal, which they announced in a broadcast from space last month and is due to impact Earth on June 26 — pre-order/pre-save HERE. MUSE will then bring the album’s world directly to fans with an extensive North American amphitheater run, starting with a July 2 headliner at Milwaukee’s Summerfest and culminating at Los Angeles’ iconic Hollywood Bowl on August 31.Get tickets HERE.
“Cryogen” is urgent and explosive across its entire five minutes. After a squelching intro, MUSE let loose a sky-scraping spiral of guitar before plunging into a roiling pool of smashing drums, grinding bass, and dramatic vocals. Throughout it all, Matt Bellamy paints a vivid picture of a man so deep in the thrall of another that he’s envisioned his tormentor as a frozen moon of Jupiter, and himself as a lost speck on the surface: “Winter’s end, she’s Europa, I’m a cracked interloper / Icicles pierce my heart so cruel and quiet / Loneliness, she left me trembling in a polar desert / Wilderness, I’m breaking.” The falsetto-streaked chorus spells out the narrator’s doom: “Cryogen, I can never cry again / Cryogen, I’m freezing over.”
Despite the frigid theme, “Cryogen” is all fireworks, all the time. The song was written and produced by MUSE with Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The Horizon, Blink-182) — who performs keys and additional guitar in the MUSE live band — with additional production from Aleks von Korff. That’s the same team behind March’s hopeful lead single “Be With You,” a powerful swirl of driving electronica and searing stadium rock that DORK predicted will “undoubtedly become a euphoric festival favorite in the summers to come.”
MUSE literally launched “Be With You” from space for their The Wow! Signal announcement (see a snippet HERE), beaming back footage of the music video streaming on a specially designed tablet 20 miles up into the atmosphere. The cinematic visual directed by Nico Paolillo (Deafheaven, BAD OMENS) and starring Ella Balinska (The Occupant, Resident Evil) offers instant immersion into the universe of the album. Listen HERE and watch HERE. While the announcement was widely covered by the likes of Pitchfork, NME, Consequence, Kerrang!, and Billboard, “Be With You” earned 3 million global streams in the first week and became the #1 Most Added at Alternative Radio, where it has since climbed to #9.
Following the album news, MUSE made a grand live return to London with a special performance at the 5,000-capacity O2 Academy Brixton, a room they hadn’t played since 2001. The show won rave reviews from outlets including The Times (five stars), Kerrang! (“MUSE don’t miss”), and NME, who noted that fans had camped out overnight to secure a spot close to the stage. The publication also turned in an early review of “Cryogen,” which MUSE debuted that night: “A blast of classic MUSE harking back to their ’00s days with wailing riffs, [an] arena-destroying chorus, and painting an apocalyptic sci-fi landscape.”
MUSE also performed fan-favorite The Wow! Signal track “Unravelling,” which they released last year to instant acclaim and a flurry of album rumors. With arpeggiated synths that crash into a colossal wall of barbed riffs, the single racked up praise from outlets including Rolling Stone (“transcendent”) Guitar World (“endlessly gratifying”), and DIY Magazine, who lovingly called the song “balls-to-the-wall maximalist.”
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.
With every additional transmission from The Wow! Signal, we get a stronger sense of the forces powering MUSE’s new era: a mix of cosmic mystery, existential hope, and the exhilarating possibility of contact with something far greater than ourselves. Connect with MUSE at one of the dates below.
MUSE – The Wow! Signal Tour Dates
Jul 02 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest ^
Jul 05 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater * ~
Jul 07 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center * ~
Jul 10 – Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre * ~
Jul 11 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center * ~
Jul 13 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre * ~
Jul 15 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre * ~
Jul 17 – Québec, QC @ Festival d’été de Québec ^
Jul 18 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center * ~
Jul 22 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center * ~
Jul 24 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Albany Med Health System at SPAC * ~
Jul 25 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater * ~
Rising Dublin band Basht. are today unveiling their plans for debut album Poor Advice, which will be released on 9th October via LAB Records. Also shared today is the album’s lead single, ‘Perfume‘.
Basht. have earned themselves a devoted fanbase in the run up to their debut album announcement, in no small thanks to taking their knockout live show on tour with the likes of DEADLETTER, Everything Everything and Wunderhorse, and featuring at festivals including The Great Escape, Truck, Supersonic Block Party, Liverpool Sound City, Dot To Dot, Live at Leeds, and Other Voices. With 2025’s celebrated ‘Bitter and Twisted’ EP under their belts, the band are now sharing their first music of the year in the form of ‘Perfume’.
Produced by Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Perfume Genius, PJ Harvey), ‘Perfume’ arrives foreboding and introspective, all intoxicating vocals and pitch-black subject matter, quietly gestating before erupting to make good on the threat of its looming atmospherics. A kind of patience murmurs at the core of Basht., only showing their hand when the right moment presents itself. On ‘Perfume’ they turn the reflective and emotionally heavy into the sprawling and powerful.
Vocalist and guitarist Jack Leavey comments on the new single: “Perfume is about the relationship between father and son from the perspective of the son as he recounts his parents’ marriage falling apart.
Ireland also has a darker history, shaped by the strong influence of the Catholic Church over private life, particularly in cases of unplanned pregnancy – where young couples were often pressured into marriage to preserve respectability and avoid shame.
These unions were not always based on love or readiness, but on moral expectation and social control, with alternatives like single parenthood heavily stigmatised, especially for women. This song reflects that reality, capturing how personal lives were shaped by external pressures, where duty could outweigh desire and a single moment could determine the course of an entire future.”
Continuing about forthcoming debut album Poor Advice, he says: “Poor Advice is a bruising concept album that traces the tangled wires between power and those crushed under it.
Through 10 tracks, it maps the old dance between church and state in Ireland, where pulpits and governments traded sermons for policy and shaped a generation with guilt, silence, and obedience.
It then pulls that thread into the present, following how moral authority has been outsourced to boardrooms and barracks, with the military industrial complex running like a grim metronome: conflict brewed, weapons sold, grief managed, contracts renewed.
Poor Advice is the title because it’s all the counsel handed down from above: keep your head down, say your prayers, trust the deal.”
Apr 24 – Roisin Dubh Galway, IE
Apr 25 – Ulster Sports Club Belfast, UK, SOLD OUT
May 02 – Liverpool Sound City, Liverpool, UK
May 22 – Mi Ami Festival, Milan, IT
May 23 – NBHD Weekender, Warrington, UK
May 24 – Bearded Theory Derbyshire, UK
May 27 – Les Etoiles Paris, FR
May 28 – Ekko Utrecht, NL – SOLD OUT
May 29 – Vestrock Festival Hulst, NL
May 29 – Dauwpop Hellendoorn, NL
Jun 20 – TRNSMT, UK
Jul 02 – Rock Werchter, BE
Aug 09 – Boardmasters Festival Newquay, UK
Aug 29 – Rock N Roll Circus, Sheffield, UK
Aug 30 – Leeds Festival, Leeds, UK
Sep 05 – Zero Four Three Festival Maastrich, NE
BRIT-nominated DJ/producer, BL3SS, is back with his first single of 2026 — listen to ‘terms and conditions’ HERE.
Written as a fresh, carefree ode to summer, ‘terms and conditions’ samples Mahalia’s 2023 track of the same name, flipping her vocals to create a fizzing, next-gen anthem that feels ready-made for everything from house parties to clubs to festival stages.
Landing as his first new material since the release of rowdy, club-skewed debut EP, ‘The Afters’, last November, ‘terms and conditions’ also dials back into BL3SS’ addictive brand of audacious, bedroom-made dance music. Laced with the sort of hi-energy euphoria that resonates with both his next-gen fanbase and across big stages worldwide, ‘terms and conditions’ only adds to an already rich and rapidly expanding discography.
BL3SS, who bagged a BRIT-nomination for his UK Top 5 breakout single ‘Kisses’ alongside CamrinWatsin & bbyclose last year, also released a series of quickfire singles in 2025, including ‘Craving 4 U’, ‘R 2 ME’ with Tchami and surprise NYE anthem, ‘567AM’.
He also made debuts at Tomorrowland, Longitude and Reading & Leeds last summer, following a maiden headline tour of Australia & NZ where he also played major festivals like Beyond The Valley, Rhythm & Vines and Field Day. BL3SS also recently supported Oliver Heldens at The Roundhouse in March.
Looking ahead, BL3SS plays his first London headline show at Night Tales on May 30th, and will soon announce a run of North American shows scheduled throughout the summer and into the autumn. For Night Tales ticket information, please see HERE.
2x GRAMMY® Award winning R&B powerhouse Kehlani releases her highly anticipated self-titled fifth studio album, KEHLANI, today on her birthday, April 24, 2026. Listen HERE.
A self-titled album is often an artist’s most personal statement, and KEHLANI is no exception. The project captures her at her most honest, blending soul-baring storytelling with the lush, genre-bending sound that has made her one of modern R&B’s most influential voices.
The album was anchored by a trio of defining singles, beginning with “Folded,” a breakout anthem that has become one of the defining R&B records of the decade. “Folded” delivered major award recognition, including 2x GRAMMY® wins for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance, an iHeartRadio Music Award for R&B Song of the Year (where she made her debut award show performance), NAACP Image Awards nominations, and three American Music Award nominations, including Song of the Year. The song has surpassed 800 million global streams, peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, and spent 43 weeks on the chart. It reached #1 across Urban (for 10 weeks), Rhythmic, and R&B radio formats, generated over 1.45 billion U.S. radio audience impressions, earned Kehlani her first solo #1 on the Billboard Rhythmic Airplay Chart, and reached #22 on Billboard’s Global 200. The “Folded Homage Pack” extended its cultural footprint with reinterpretations from R&B icons including Toni Braxton, Brandy, JoJo, Mario, Ne-Yo, and Tank. She also performed “Folded” on an episode of Amazon’s “In The Paint”, which aired during NBA Nightcap.
The momentum continued with “Out The Window,” which further showcased Kehlani’s emotional transparency and sonic direction. Most recently, Kehlani released “Back and Forth” featuring Missy Elliott. The track pairs Kehlani’s signature vulnerability with Missy Elliott’s unmistakable innovation and energy, serving as the final preview before the album’s release.
Kehlani celebrates a landmark year of cultural impact, including a surprise appearance during Giveon’s mainstage set at Coachella in addition to her solo performance at Revolve Festival.
With over 20 RIAA certifications, more than 5 billion global streams, and status as a 7x GRAMMY® nominated songwriter and artist, Kehlani continues to solidify her place as one of contemporary R&B’s most essential voices. This year she was also honored at the Femme It Forward 2025 “Give Her FlowHERS” Awards Gala, receiving the Alchemist Award, and recognized as an ASCAP Women Behind the Music Honoree. Kehlani will also be honored with the Impact Award at the upcoming Billboard Women in Music, where she will deliver a special performance in celebration of her influence on music and culture.
Kehlani will bring the album to global stages with upcoming festival performances at Essence Festival, Afronation Portugal, Roots Picnic, and more.
MAISIE ANNOUNCED A GOLDEN DISCS INSTORE FOR TUESDAY MAY 5TH IS NOW SOLD OUT
With just a handful of dates left on her sold-out global ‘Before The Bloom’ theatre tour, Maisie Peters has shared a new song, ‘Kingmaker’, featuring six-time Grammy nominee Julia Michaels. Listen HERE.
Loosely inspired by Hilary Mantel’s historical novel Wolf Hall, Maisie explains: “Kingmaker is a song about power dynamics, chiefly about being a woman and feeling like you’ve offered your time, wisdom, talent, and belief to someone who has then taken advantage of it. It’s about the sting of uplifting someone, only to find out they didn’t deserve you in the first place; about giving a man the benefit of the doubt and having it thrown in your face.”
She continues: “I loved writing this song with Julia, as I think we have both had the experience of achieving success and witnessing the impact that has on the romantic relationships in our lives – on the egos of the men who say they want a strong woman, until it “makes them bitter.” We recorded this song very intentionally as a duet, going line for line instead of verse for verse, so it could really be heard as a conversation between two friends sympathising with each other, which really is exactly what the writing process was like.
Julia is a hero of mine – her songwriting has undoubtedly been one of, if not the biggest, influences on my own writing, and it is one of the greatest honours of my career to have a song out with her. She has become not only a trusted collaborator but also a real friend, and I really am so excited for this song to be out in the world.”
Julia adds: “Working with Maisie is a dream. Her lyricism is so colorful and vibrant. When you write with her you feel completely immersed in her world. You feel like you’ve lived it yourself.”
Alongside ‘If You Let Me’ with Marcus Mumford, ‘Kingmaker’ is one of two features on Maisie’s anticipated third studio album, Florescence, due out 15 May. Co-produced with two-time Grammy winner Ian Fitchuk, the record is a meditation on how the right love can help heal the wrong ones. It’s an album about perspective, self-realisation, healing, and ultimately, learning how to flourish.
Currently fronting Cosmopolitan UK, Maisie has also just been announced for the New Music Stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend on 24 May, as well as Reading & Leeds, where she’ll share the bill with Charli XCX, Dave, ADÉLA and SOMBR.
After being serviced early to select DJs and clubs – sending demand into overdrive, Madonna releases “I Feel So Free” from her forthcoming album Confessions II. Listen HERE
Produced by Madonna and Stuart Price, the song is the first taste of new music ahead of the upcoming lead single. Immerse yourself by experiencing the accompanying trancelike visualizer. Watch HERE
It was announced earlier this week Madonna’s eagerly anticipated new album Confessions II is set for release on July 3rd via Warner Records. The new album is the continuation of the iconic counterpart Confessions on a Dance floor. Fans can pre-order the album + the ultimate curation of expansive vinyl, CDs and cassette offeringHERE
Multi-platinum, multi-hyphenate artist Melanie Martinez returns with her fourth studio album, HADES — an 18-track descent into the psyche of our times. Is dystopia just a YA fantasy book or is it already upon us? Melanie recently joined Ross Golan on And the Writer Is… for a deep dive into the making of the album and the themes behind it. Listen HERE.
Melanie also spoke in depth with her longtime collaborator, songwriter and producer CJ Baran, on Justin Tranter’s Unfamous podcast, where the two dive into their creative partnership and process. Listen HERE.
On April 8, she will celebrate HADES with an exclusive evening at the GRAMMY Museum’s Clive Davis Theater in Los Angeles. The intimate 200-seat venue sets the stage for an in-depth conversation about her creative process, followed by a mini-live performance staged exclusively for this event. Tickets and more information are available HERE.
The album’s lead single, “POSSESSION” (her first release in three years) made an immediate impact, debuting with 2.7 million Spotify streams in its first 24 hours. The track has since surpassed 33 million global streams, including 12.5 million in the U.S. The follow-up single “DISNEY PRINCESS” continues to build momentum, amassing 11.1 million global streams to date, including 4.1 million in the U.S. Melanie recently broke down this track’s sardonic edge in an interview with Genius “Verified” — watch HERE.
On the release, Melanie shares: “‘UNCANNY VALLEY’ was the last song I wrote for HADES. The song is about how social media and AI have warped our relationship to beauty, constantly comparing ourselves to edited faces, reshaping how we look just to feel desirable, needing a filter to feel normal.
I started this album thinking I was writing a futuristic dystopia, but I realized I was just documenting the world we’re already living in. HADES is a cracked mirror. Beneath the rage, it’s a refusal to go numb – a call to feel, to see clearly, and to ask if we can still create something beautiful from the chaos we’ve been given.”
PRESIDENT UNVEIL LYRIC VIDEO FOR DYNAMIC NEW SINGLE “MERCY” — WATCH + LISTEN
BAND WRAPPED FIRST FULL U.S. TOUR WITH BAD OMENS
Multi-million streaming, UK-based collective PRESIDENT continue to exist at the intersection of heavy music, electronic experimentation, and cinematic atmosphere. Launching in 2025 and operating under the cloak of minimalism and anonymity, PRESIDENT have been cultivating intrigue with each single and live performance. Refusing to conform to the traditional structures of genre or identity, PRESIDENT prioritize intent over image.
Today, PRESIDENT have unveiled the lyric video for new single “MERCY,” which arrives at the close of their massive U.S. tour supporting Bad Omens. “MERCY” is all about perfectly executed dynamics — mixing memorable melodies and heavier-than-granite riffs with gritty breakdowns. The result is another unforgettable anthem.
About the song, President say, “Throughout history, religion has been tied to profound division and loss. This song is a reflection on that reality, and a way for me to come to terms with what it means on a human level.”
More news about future President live rallies will be revealed shortly.
“MERCY” follows “ANGEL WINGS,” which arrived in February. Watch the video here. The song was tipped by Rock Sound as “a blend of bubbling synths, spine-tingling melodies and crushing riffs,” while Revolver declared that the song “refined their mix of modern metal, pop and electronic music, contorting itself from twitchy programmed beats towards a cavernously djenting boom.” Vice stated that President’s “style is deeply compelling as it’s paired with a refreshingly honest approach to songwriting.”
Built to exist outside the noise, PRESIDENT are building something that invites deeper investment — designed to be discovered, not sold. PRESIDENT said it best, telling Revolver in a cover feature that “the music industry has elements of fast fashion to it these days. Things just come and go. Everything’s really quick. Everyone’s shouting for attention and there’s just so much noise, and it just becomes a fucking conveyor belt. [We] wanted to step back and not be a part of that. But if people are interested, and they want to enter into this world, we’ll grab them with open arms.”
PRESIDENT’s debut EP, King of Terrors, was released in fall 2025. Listen here.
MUSE’S TENTH STUDIO ALBUM ARRIVES JUNE 26 PRE-ORDER & PRE-SAVE HERE
Today, GRAMMY® Award-winning English rock titans MUSE announce their forthcoming tenth studio album, The WOW! Signal, out June 26 via Warner Records — find the track list below, and pre-order and pre-save HERE. The announcement was truly out of this world, with MUSE launching the news from space! In partnership with Sent Into Space, the band sent a specially-designed tablet 33km up into the atmosphere to premiere the “Be With You” video, while a second package carried stickers for a limited-edition vinyl release to be claimed by fans.
The WOW! Signal marks MUSE’s first album since 2022’s acclaimed Will Of The People – which premiered at #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums. Inviting us to dive headlong into the new album’s world, MUSE are sharing the massive opening salvo of a lead single, “Be With You,” alongside a scene-setting official music video starring Ella Balinska (Resident Evil, The Occupant). Listen HERE and watch HERE.
“Be With You” opens on a huge, humming church organ and Matt Bellamy’s equally epic vocal as he zooms in on a heavy moment: “It seems my light’s been swallowed up, I’ve used up every ounce of luck / I need to leap into the fire, find a higher power, and reach for something new.” But soon enough, the track ignites into driving electronica and, eventually, searing rock as the narrator’s perspective shifts from dejection to resolve: “I feel my life has just begun, it can’t just be with anyone / It’s got to be with you.”
Directed by Nico Paolillo (Deafheaven, BAD OMENS), the “Be With You” video brings this galvanizing moment to life in stunning cinematic detail. As a red halo clings to the moon, Balinska begins to notice odd phenomena and seems pulled out into the night by some greater force. She eventually meets a man moved by the same strange energy, and together they witness a beautiful and terrifying phenomenon.
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.
While “Be With You” is only our first glimpse into The WOW! Signal, the common themes between the song and this phenomenon speak to the forces powering MUSE’s new album: a mix of cosmic mystery, existential hope, and the exhilarating possibility of contact with something far greater than ourselves.
