Name: Amputechture
Brand: The Mars Volta

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4250795604945

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White

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White / Orange

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Indies Only

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-01-14

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Signed copies: No

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Warner Music Group

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Standard:20

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9999

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4250795602484

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2024-10-04

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The Mars Volta

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Prog Rock

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Clouds Hill

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The Mars Volta is a Los Angeles-based band that was formed in 2001. Led by Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez, the group ventured into hardcore, psychedelic rock, and free jazz genres after splintering from their previous band, At the Drive-In. However, in 2013, Bixler-Zavala announced his departure from The Mars Volta and the subsequent breakup of the band. Following this, Cedric and Omar went on to create another project called Bosnian Rainbows. Fortunately for fans, The Mars Volta reunited in June 2022.
With their unique blend of musical styles and experimental approach to sound, The Mars Volta has captivated audiences since their inception. Their music pushes boundaries and defies traditional genre categorizations.
Whether you're a fan of hardcore punk or free jazz improvisation, The Mars Volta's discography offers something for everyone. From their debut album "De-Loused in the Comatorium" to later releases like "Frances the Mute" and "The Bedlam in Goliath," each record showcases the band's exceptional musicianship and fearless creativity.

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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 full-length Amputechture, a simmering/blistering set that was unquestionably the group’s darkest yet. There was no overarching theme here, no interlinking concept binding the songs together, though Cedric concedes that, lyrically, the album was influenced “by a lot of stuff I was going through, a really bad break-up and a lot of other crazy stuff, and trying to put that feeling into the record.” 

But Amputechture – its name another of the late Jeremy Michael Ward’s invented words – was no downbeat bummer. Opener Vicarious Atonement might’ve been a deliciously gloomy, slow-burning thing, capturing Cedric in delirious duet with Omar’s swooning guitar lines, accompanied by squalling saxophone by Adrian Terrazas-Gonzales and dream-frequency fuckery by the group’s new sonic manipulator, former At The Drive- In member Paul Hinojos. But second track Tetragrammaton swiftly set pulses racing, an epic-in-miniature and containing more ideas within its 16 minutes than most bands manage over an entire career, its proggy, complex guitar figures tessellating in infinite configurations and converging as if conforming to mathematical formulae from another reality.

Side note : John Frusciante features on every track here.

Amputechture

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Discover Amputechture by The Mars Volta. A dark and powerful album with no overarching theme, featuring John Frusciante. Available in CD and LP formats from Clouds Hill.