Muse: The Wow! Signal review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Warner) From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous​ yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial life Barely three minutes of Muse’s 10th album has elapsed before a choir make an appearance: a choir that isn’t singing so much as chanting in Latin, like something you might hear on the soundtrack to an occult-themed horror film. “Sanctus!” they cry. “Dominus!” And, inevitably, “Lucifer!” The choir are harder to hear than you might think, battling as they are against everything else that’s going on during The Wow! Signal’s opening tra

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