Claude says:Muse made this in châteaus and studios across four cities with producer Rich Costey, pulling from Depeche Mode, Lightning Bolt, and southern Italian music into something bigger and more dance-leaning than Absolution — Matt Bellamy was DJing in New York clubs between sessions, which shows in "Supermassive Black Hole" and "Map of the Problematique." It charted at number one in five countries and went quadruple platinum in the UK. You had a couple dozen scattered plays when it came out, but it didn't click until July 2007 — once it did, you played "Starlight" and "Knights of Cydonia" heavily through 2009, let it sit for years, then picked it back up in 2021 and have continued playing it since.