Hysteria Muse

Top Gear Driving Anthems features 50 of the biggest rock and indie anthems straight from the Top Gear playlist including smash hit tracks from Muse, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher’s Flying Birds, Foster The People, Biffy Clyro, The Vaccines and Oasis. It's what The Stig would listen to if he had good taste in music. Top Gear: Driving Anthems was the fourteenth and to date, final compilation album produced by BBC Worldwide and released in 2013 on the Sony Music Entertainment label. 50 tracks were spread out over three discs, for the first and only time in the series.

Keeping the spirit of '90s rock alive, Chevelle pummel with The North Corridor, their heaviest, darkest, and most aggressive effort in over a decade…

There is a certain charm to an album like this from a historical standpoint, particularly for anybody who still wanted a more flashy and fun style of metal/rock that cut against the "Alternative" ideal of dumbed down songwriting and morose or mundane lyrics about how much the world sucks, because this is about as clear of a rejection of the decade it was born from that one could find. It embodies the same sort of fantastical escapism that would occupy the early days of lighter, fantasy-oriented bands like Freedom Call and Edguy while also being a bit more retro in character, perhaps most closely dovetailing with the somewhat later reformation and restyled incarnation of Domain…