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Sunday, January 21, 2007
Alt-rock renegades The Mars Volta's last two albums weren't just ruminations on the suicides of two contemporaries (their mentor Julio Venegas and ex-member Jeremy Ward), they were unassailable behemoths wielding mallets of funk-prog, Latino metal and ambient jazz. One track on their last album took an excruciating 33 minutes. Instead of one narrative, composer Omar Rodriquez-Lopez and man-on-the-brink vocalist Cedric Bixler -Zavala pack Amputechture with a series of guitar-blitzkrieging brass-swirling reminiscences from their El Paso youth. And that's overwhelmingly for the good. Although Bixler-Zavala's lyrical allusions to brains, insects and substance abuse remain as cryptic as ever, this is their tightest record to date; its 75 minutes spin by deceptively quickly, and the bilingual funk of Viscera Eyes and Vermicide are even obvious candidates for singles. It's hardly an instant listen, but preserverance is rewarded with a blood-rushing ridethat's less proggy-promp wizardy, more Sergio Leone-meets-miami Vice.
Nadine McBay
The official mars volta store has some new t-shirts and things... apparently they were giving away some free wallets but have now run out - shame.
No, he did not get drunk and then Omar put his thumb in some warm water - some of the crowd hurled it at him apparently while on stage.
I am a bit dissapointed the single will be download only, I would much prefer to own something! Pointless anyway as a lot of fans would have already downloaded it. Why download an MP3 which will be protected when you already have it? Oh well, thats the way things are going these days. Lets hope the records still get made by GSL.
