The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta

First studio album since 2012 on vinyl LP!

Breaking a decade of omertà, The Mars Volta reawaken from their lengthy hiatus with an eponymous album that radically reshapes their paradigm. The 2022 album shakes loose some of The Mars Volta’s long-standing shibboleths and the dizzying, abrasive prog stylings of earlier albums absent. Instead, The Mars Volta pulses with subtle brilliance, Caribbean rhythms underpinning sophisticated, turbulent songcraft. This is The Mars Volta at their most mature, most concise, most focused. Their sound and fury channelled to greatest effect, The Mars Volta finds Rodríguez-López’s subterranean pop melodies driving Bixler-Zavala’s dark sci-fi tales of the occult and malevolent governments. Distilling all the passion, poetry and power at their fingertips, The Mars Volta is the most accessible music the group have ever recorded.

Founded in 2001, The Mars Volta is best known for their energy-driven live shows and their incorporation of various genres of music including progressive rock, krautrock, jazz fusion and Latin American music. In 2009 the band won a Grammy for "Best Hard Rock Performance" for their song "Wax Simulacra."

 

Side A

1. Blacklight Shine

2. Graveyard Love

3. Shore Story

4. Blank Condolences

5. Vigil

6. Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon

7. Cerulea

Side B

1. Flash Burns From Flashbacks

2. Palm Full Of Crux

3. No Case Gain

4. Tourmaline

5. Equus 3

6. Collapsible Shoulders

7. The Requisition

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