Name: Frances the Mute
Brand: The Mars Volta

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4250795602507

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Limited edition

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2023-02-24

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The Mars Volta

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Rock-Pop

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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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If one needed further proof of the contemporary revival/reassessment of the ambitiously overwrought sensibilities once so reviled in '70s rock, this aggressively mindbending second album by the Mars Volta offers it up in spades. Band mainstays Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala insist that labels like "prog" don't interest them, and that this is emphatically not a "sequel" to 2003's De-Loused in the Comatorium. What it is was thematically inspired by a stranger's diary allegedly found by late bandmate Jeremy Ward, the basis for an expansive, often amorphous musical head-trip that brews psychedelia, trance, hard-rock and free-jazz into a daunting new whole. The dozen tracks here represent but five "songs" proper, though the band's disdain for conventional track banding inspire it to sound more like a stream-of-consciousness soundscape from Can—or a dark, lyrically inventive, if decidedly troubled corner of their ids. On the "Umbilical Syllables" portion of "Cygnus.." and "The Widow" Bixler-Zavala invokes the wailing, Led Zeppelin II &amp; III spirit of Robert Plant set against a feverish, swirling melange that's anything but the blues. The vocalist coaxes "L' Via l'Viaquez" en Espanol, while his band indulges its space-mambo conceits with an evocative spirit that recalls Latin Playboys at their most mischievous. It's an album that loops back on itself in a haunting ellipse—and one whose boundless ambition makes Pink Floyd sound like three-chord bar punters by comparison.

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