GRAMMY® Award-winning English rock titans MUSE unveil their new single, “Nightshift Superstar,” and its accompanying music video. The latest glimpse into the world of their forthcoming tenth album, 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.”
The song offers another glimpse into the world 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.
Exploring themes of extraterrestrial communication, technological anxiety, existential wonder, and humanity’s search for meaning in an increasingly disconnected world, The Wow! Signal arrives June 26.