SAMPLEDMuse drop 'Nightshift Superstar' as 'The Wow! Signal' comes into focus
The fifth transmission from Muse's tenth album collides arena rock with French house — and the LP lands June 26.
Muse have unveiled "Nightshift Superstar," the latest single from their forthcoming tenth album The Wow! Signal, out June 26 via Warner Records. The track arrives with a music video and continues the band's slow drip of material ahead of a North American amphitheater tour that opens July 2 at Milwaukee's Summerfest and wraps August 31 at the Hollywood Bowl.
Where recent singles "Hexagons" and "Cryogen" leaned hard into Muse's sci-fi rock vocabulary, "Nightshift Superstar" pivots. A driving bassline, pinwheeling guitars, orchestral flurries, and choir vocals sit on top of a disco rhythm and what the band itself describes as a "collision of rock, disco, and French house" — closer in spirit to the dancefloor than the Brixton Academy. Matt Bellamy sings of a subject who pulls him into sleepless thrills: "Kiss that kills the pain, I crave again / Now I can't stay clean, you're my darkest dream."
A slow-burn album rollout
The Wow! Signal is named after the 72-second radio burst picked up in 1977 from the constellation Sagittarius — the printout famously circled and annotated "Wow!" by astronomer Jerry Ehman. Muse have leaned into the mythology of unexplained interstellar contact across the campaign. "Be With You," the LP's lead single, was literally launched from space for the announcement and racked up 3 million streams in its first week. "Hexagons" was unlocked via a scavenger hunt that spanned Sydney, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Paris, and London.
Thematically, the record is being framed around extraterrestrial communication, technological anxiety, and a search for meaning in a disconnected world — territory Muse have circled for two decades but rarely with this much narrative scaffolding.
What to listen for
"Nightshift Superstar" is the kind of Muse song that earns a place in a setlist on hooks alone — the bassline is the first thing you'll hum, and the choir flip in the back half is built for amphitheaters. If the album sequencing follows the singles, The Wow! Signal is shaping up as the band's most rhythm-forward record since The 2nd Law, with the French house tilt giving Bellamy and Chris Wolstenholme an excuse to keep things moving instead of pile-driving.
The Wow! Signal Tour opens July 2 and runs through August 31. The Wow! Signal is out June 26.