This is why Hexagons is a landmark song by Muse
With Hexagons, Muse successfully bridges the gap between the band's two major periods, something that hadn't happened so naturally since The 2nd Law.
The difference with many post-2012 albums is that Hexagons doesn't sound like a collage of ideas: the track recaptures the melancholy and "cosmic" feel of early Muse while retaining the production power of modern Muse.
Where recent albums often abruptly separated styles, I find that Hexagons finally fuses them seamlessly.
For example, the progressive 6/4 time signature is typical of the creative ideas of OOS or Absolution,
And there are the big, heavily saturated synths reminiscent of Simulation Theory or 2nd Law.
For me, this is the first Muse track to perfectly reconcile fans of the first era (Showbiz to Resistance) and fans of the second (The 2nd Law to WOTP).
This is quite a historic moment because I feel that with The Wow! Signal, Muse has found its ultimate musical evolution. The original and the new formula together, improved.