The Mars Volta / Frances The Mute – CD (Used)

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Author: Mars Volta

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• Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta (2006-03-21)

Release Date: 01-03-2005

Details: Product descriptionBrand NewAmazon.caIf one needed further proof of the contemporary revival/reassessment of the ambitiously overwrought sensibilities once so reviled in 70’s rock, this aggressively mind-bending second album by The Mars Volta offers it up in spades. Band mainstays Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Baxter-Zavala insist that labels like « prog » don’t interest them, and that this is emphaticallynot a « sequel » to 2003’sDe-Loused in the Comatorium. What itis 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 » Bixter-Zavala invokes the wailing, ZeppelinII &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 recallsLatin 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.–Jerry McCulley

UPC: 075021039773

EAN: 0075021039773

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood