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Beneath the technical flash, the fury, the fearless creative brinkmanship of the first two Mars Volta albums lay a potent seam of the blues, an existential vexation that powered every twist and turn of Omar and Cedric’s imaginations. That mournful vibe would come to the surface of the group’s third...
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The music of THE BEDLAM IN GOLIATH is seething, infernal stuff, their most intense, most heavily-loaded work yet, finally even leading to Band’s first recognition from the Recording Academy by WAX SIMULACRA winning a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. An album at once muscular and inventive, an album given...
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2002's TREMULANT EP had much to accomplish within its three tracks and 19 minutes: to define the group’s ambitions and their possibilities, to sketch out a limitless horizon for their future adventures. The EP’s genre-emulsifying sprawl, segueing from splenetic punk-salsa pell-mell to meditative, dubbed-out drum machine symphonies with unerring confidence,...
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A considerably more complex and ambitious album than its predecessor – four of its five tracks lasted over ten minutes in length – FRANCES THE MUTE wasn’t recorded “live” by an ensemble, but with the individual musicians recording the parts Omar had scripted for them separately. Being much more than...
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“Honour our roots, honour our dead”. This mindset found perfect expression in the group’s 2003 debut full-length, DE-LOUSED IN THE COMATORIUM, a song cycle inspired by the life and death of the duo’s old friend, artist and provocateur Julio Venegas. Driven by furious, muscular, syncopated drums and frenetic guitar parts,...
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Breaking a decade of omertà, The Mars Volta reawaken from their lengthy hiatus with an eponymous album that radically reshapes their paradigm. The new album shakes loose some of The Mars Volta’s long-standing shibboleths, fearlessly defying all expectations and categorizations. Instead, The Mars Volta pulses with subtle brilliance, Caribbean rhythms...
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There's always something new to be found any album by The Mars Volta, and Octahedron is a prime example of just that. It's far removed from anything they had previously done and strays from their usual concept albums, but it's a striking change that makes it memorable....
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Noctourniquet is an album of inspired, unexpected moves and uncanny invention, following a considerably darker, more menacing strain of pop, with synthesizers figuring heavily in the productions. It is the sound of a band discovering new ways to do familiar things, renewing their commitment to their mission, finding fresh inspiration...
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The band’s third album, would prove The Mars Volta’s most diverse set yet, drawing into the group’s tornado of influences moments of fiery jazz spirituality and esoteric folk introspection, finding space for passages of devastating subtlety and also their most fierce and full-on moments to date. Amputechture, then, is the...
