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Guitar manipulator Omar Rodriguez, co-frontman of the Mars Volta, swears that their new album, Frances The Mute, was completed without any needles, pipes, or bottles. This may be a rock and roll first.
Unlike with the recording of the band’s 2003 debut De-Loused in the Comatorium or any output from At The Drive-In (the El Paso afro-toting prog-punk powerhouse he and crooner Cedric Bixler, the other permanent ‘Marsvoltian’, led until 2001...
Without a doubt, the Mars Volta is a self-consciously difficult band, one that has simultaneously increased the level of permutations in its sound along with the variety of its genre affiliations. The roots for the template Rodriguez and Bixler currently employ can be found on At The Drive In?...
Back in their Drive In days, the guys wrote self-contained songs, mostly some variant of verse-chorus-verse, with discernible beginnings and ends. With the Mars Volta, at least so far, they have committed themselves to the idea of the album as one entity; both this album and De...
While De-Loused’s spiraling story line centered on the fictionalized dreams spawned by tormented childhood friend Julio Venegas’s time in a coma, Frances the Mute is purportedly based on a diary discovered and then continued in a similarly troubled vein by Jeremy Ward, the...