More By Artist: The Mars Volta
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The Mars Volta
Landscape Tantrums - Unfinished Original Recordings Of De-Loused In The Comatorium (Limited Vinyl) [ ADA / Warner / LP - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Lost for two decades, the recent rediscovery of Landscape Tantrums, the first attempt at recording the music that would become The Mars Volta's De-Loused In The Comatorium, revealed an important and hitherto missing chapter in the group's evolution.... |
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The Mars Volta [ ADA / Warner / CD - released 16/Sep/2022 ] Breaking a decade of omertà, The Mars Volta reawaken from their lengthy hiatus with an eponymous album that radically reshapes their paradigm. After the group fell silent, a legion of devotees (including Kanye West) kept up an insistent drumbeat... |
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta (LP) [ ADA / Warner / LP - released 16/Sep/2022 ] Breaking a decade of omertà, The Mars Volta reawaken from their lengthy hiatus with an eponymous album that radically reshapes their paradigm. After the group fell silent, a legion of devotees (including Kanye West) kept up an insistent drumbeat... |
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Noctourniquet (LP) [ ADA / Warner / 2 LP - released 20/May/2022 ] Noctourniquet is an album of inspired, unexpected moves and uncanny invention, following a considerably darker, more menacing strain of pop, with synthesizers figuring heavily in the productions. It is the sound of a band discovering new ways to do... |
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Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 21/Apr/2023 ] A few months after their self-titled seventh album announced the return of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala as The Mars Volta, the group present a potent reimagining of that reunion opus. Much more than a simple "unplugged" reading of... |
The Mars Volta
Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 21/Apr/2023 ] A few months after their self-titled seventh album announced the return of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala as The Mars Volta, the group present a potent reimagining of that reunion opus. Much more than a simple "unplugged" reading of... |
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Octahedron (LP) [ ADA / Warner / LP - released 13/May/2022 ] Each of the Mars Volta albums that preceded Octahedron had pushed the envelope further, their music growing larger, more intense, more complex. Each had delivered an implied, unspoken challenge to its makers within milliseconds of its final notes:... |
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Amputechture (LP) [ ADA / Warner / 2 LP - released 13/Dec/2024 ] 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... |
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The Bedlam In Goliath (LP) [ ADA / Warner / 3 LP - released 13/Dec/2024 ] Received wisdom has it that to toy with the occult is to enter into a Faustian pact that will bite you on the ass somewhere down the line. Magic, myth and sorcery had been recurrent themes within The Mars Volta's output for some time and served as... |
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De-Loused In The Comatorium (LP) [ ADA / Warner / LP - released 25/Mar/2022 ] "Honour our roots, honour our dead". This mindset found perfect expression in the group's 2003 debut full-length, De-Loused In The Comatorium, a song cycle inspired by the life and death of the duo's old friend, artist and provocateur Julio... |
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Frances The Mute (Limited LP) [ ADA / Warner / 3 LP - released 15/Apr/2022 ] A considerably more complex and ambitious album than its predecessor (four of its five tracks lasted over ten minutes in length), Frances The Mute wasn't recorded "live" by an ensemble, but with the individual musicians recording the parts Omar had... |
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Tremulant EP (12") [ ADA / Warner / 12in - released 25/Feb/2022 ] 2002's Tremulant EP had much to accomplish within its three tracks and 19 minutes: to define the group's ambitions and their possibilities, to sketch out a limitless horizon for their future adventures. The EP's genre-emulsifying sprawl, segueing... |
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Tremulant EP (12") [ ADA / Warner / 12in - released 13/Dec/2024 ] From the very beginning, The Mars Volta was conceived as more than simply a new vehicle for Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala. The group was to be a rebirth, a redrawing of their creative frontiers, a repudiation of the stylistic... |
