Muse 's #1 U. K. album Absolution, along with it's Top 10 hit "Time Is Running Out, "has finally arrived in the U. S. Muse is Brit rock not Britpop, influenced by Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead and Nirvana, not Blur or Oasis. A rock band with the bollocks to do more, say more, go further-faster-heavier- sweeter-bigger, with dazzling guitars banging against grand piano, Muse is audacious and ambitious, extreme and extravagant. The prayers of rock fans who yearn for something different have been answered with Absolution.