01. / 02. Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz

[sowhereareyouliving?]

Agreed! It's such a complete statement of a track: mysterious intro, rock-solid foundation, thundering apocalyptic mid-section, heartbreaking outro. And all this while having influences / references but sounding like nothing else ever recorded, and the production punch of some higher power

[egbdf]

At about 0:09 in Introit right before the 'logo' melody comes in on top of the arpeggio thing, I seem to hear a very faint short bit of that same 'zooming in' sound that happens at 0:20

[Electronic Dave]

I swear this track gets better every time I hear it...it feels more powerful than before, and I guess being at the beginning of the album affects my mind / feelings for up coming other tracks.

On another note it seems a weird coincidence that the band Muse have a new album coming out this month with tracks called 'The Wow Signal' (1420MHz) and another called Hexagons

[Den]

I listened in full for the fourth time today and was also feeling how Prophecy At 1420 Mhz has become even more effective in the context of the album.

[Daily Mail reader]

Reminds me vaguely of Wire circa 154.

[noveltywave]

So what is the meaning of the actual prophecy? Just cool old tunes style vocal sampling that sounds cool but has no deeper meaning (a la Neon Genesis Evangelion riffing on Christianity because it was exotic to a Japanese audience and had no deep meaning), or did Mike specifically sequence the words into this order to make a message that has an intended meaning? Who is speaking? What are they trying to say? Why is it a “prophecy” of the future? Why is it on the Wow Signal frequency?

Or again, is it just old tunes shenanigans that was made because it sounds aesthetically cool.