Frances the Mute - Mars Volta (2005)

[DudeAsInCool]

Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

Originally released: 2005

Universal Music Group

In a big-riff age when punk is pop, in the worst fizzy-drink sense, and most heavy metal is as wild as a night at home playing Grand Theft Auto, the Mars Volta's second album is an exhilarating transgression: concussive, nonlinear rhythms; mad-dog guitar algebra; bloody-nightmare suites sung in bilingual free verse.

Read the full review here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/...eregion=triple1

[wingnut2600]

I really liked ATD-I and thoroughly enjoyed the Mars Volta's first album, but the new one is not my bag... Too much prog sidetracks... I enjoyed their music a little more focused. I have seen them live, and they played a 35 minute version of a 10 minute song, which works live. I would like to see them make shorter songs, cutting out the filler.

[Potato]

I'd still like to hear it.

[Ken]

It's like they have some appealing elements intricately intertwined with non-appealing elements, some of it is just plain "noise" to me.

It's hard to enjoy it like that.

However, with that said, they’re still awesome in what they represent; creativity. That is something music lacks as of late.

[Ken]

cutting out the filler

They do that, and I'll be listening.

[KiwiCoromandel]

The Mars Volta Frances the Mute

GSI/Strummer/Universal

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The Mars Volta's second release chimes in with another poignant tale of now deceased bandmate Jeremy Ward and his falling into psychosis, while assimilating instances in his life in parallel to a diary he had found some years earlier in a car he had towed as a repo-man. The author of the journal found is unknown. But, yet manifested itself as the substantiating material The Mars Volta utilized to inspire the work of Frances the Mute. The first single and vi, "The Widow" tells the story of the author of the diary's loss of his wife at a young age, and his mother as well when he was a boy. And singer, Cedric Bixler Zavala's sweet, high-pitched, but still very masculine voice finds a perfect match to the music of guitarist/producers Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's prolific and insightful visions to elevate the stature of the bands creative juices to cosmic levels. The sounds of this disc ascend and fall more gracefully than a red-tailed hawk as the cuts of super-sized proportioned songs that Rodriguez-Lopez must of worked incessantly for hour-upon-hours creating in the producer's chair. (He definately was astute to learning the creative wizardry created by Rick Rubin while in the producer chair for the bands 2003 set Deloused In The Comatorium.) The Mars Volta is all that is avent-garde and pushes he boundaries and limits of rock music with at multi-influence of Latino, Flamenco, cerebaly-pulsating psychedelics that are the axiom of this recording. For an effect that can only be described as a tremendously ambitious musical endeavor.

source:rockcircustv.com

link to MARS VOLTA interview......WARNING..... these files are large (43MB) and may take a while to download on a slow connection....the mars volta interview is about 12 minutes long.....good quality and very good interview......

http://rockcircustv.com/rcvdint/marsvoltavdint.wmv