Frances the Mute

The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

Frances the Mute
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Artist: The Mars Volta
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-03-01
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:
  1. Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus: A. Sarcophagi/B. Umbilical Syllables/C. Facilis Descenus Averni/D. Con Safo
  2. The Widow
  3. L'Via L'Viaquez
  4. Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore: A. Vade Mecum/B. Pour Another Icepick/C. Pisacis (Phra-Men-Ma)/D. Con Safo
  5. Cassandra Geminni: A. Tarantism
  6. Cassandra Geminni: B. Plant A Nail In The Navel Stream
  7. Cassandra Geminni: C. Faminepulse
  8. Cassandra Geminni: D. Multiple Spouse Wounds
  9. Untitled
  10. Cassandra Geminni: E. Sarcophagi
  11. Cassandra Geminni: E. Sarcophagi
  12. Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus: A. Sarcophagi

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Free Music Review: TMV's best to date
Hit: 5 Stars

This album demolishes the expectations laid down by both their previous album and their live show. This album is magnificent from start to finish, working as a complete cycle. Cassandra Gemini gives a close approximation of their live show, yet drags a little in the middle. They should have replaced some of the noodling with the missing title track. That being said, this disc definitely functions as a true "album", and has the most psychedelic feel to it. Not for the faint of heart, but the most rewarding in my opinion.

Frances the Mute Poster

If one needed further proof of the contemporary revival/reassessment of the ambitiously overwrought sensibilities once so reviled in '70s rock, this aggressively mindbending second album by the Mars Volta offers it up in spades. Band mainstays Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala insist that labels like "prog" don't interest them, and that this is emphatically not a "sequel" to 2003's De-Loused in the Comatorium. What it is 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" Bixler-Zavala invokes the wailing, Led Zeppelin II & 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 recalls Latin 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

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