Wow. I’m not even though the whole album yet and wow. Just wow. The Mars Volta’s new album Frances the Mute is amazing. Wow. I don’t know where I’ve been the last three years to miss a band like this. Seriously, wow. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala were in At The Drive In until they stopped doing that and followed the inner prog-rocker that resides in all of us all the way to The Mars Volta. Wow.
And it’s not just prog-rock, it is everything (and I mean everything) else too, all mixed together. Plus John Frusciante and Flea guest on the album (that's Flea on the trumpet). Wow.
Web site: www.themarsvolta.com
Stuff to Sample: The Mars Volta - The Widow
The best description I can give this album is: The Hybrid Fussion of Electronica, Classic Rock, and the mutlitudes of the many great Jam bands. This group has the potential to really blow up.
Ironically enough, moments after speaking with eLarceny, I heard the album being played on The Blitz.
Its well worth listening to, but I would definately give it two or three listens before developing a solid opinion.
Good work eLarceny on the heads up on this band. Rock n' Roll is not dead. Marz Volta has called it back from the "Green Lights at the end of the Tunnel!"
Some more info. I played this disc at work yesterday, and a lot of people were coming up and saying, "Wow, that is The Mars Volta! They are f*cking awesome!"
Grammy anyone? Definite possibility for "Album of the Year." However, I would pick Bloc Party for best engineered. The year is still early, though...