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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...
...crooner Cedric Bixler, the other permanent ‘Marsvoltian’, led until 2001) the drug policy with this record was to wait until after the recording to start the debauchery. The good news, for those who have warmed to the histrionic, full-blown theatrics of the Mars Volta, is that the sober influence is not felt...
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’s records—namely, Rodriguez’s off-the-hinges screeching and squalid guitar-wanking—without really hinting at the more drastic experimentations the two would soon dabble...
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-Loused are said to be concept albums loosely based on experiences that occurred in the lives of former friends...
...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 former Mars Volta bandmember who died of a drug overdose...