The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta (September 16, 2022) Album • Page 7

wow I wish I could listen to the Mars Volta for the first time again.

 

I wish I could see them live again

 

Only ever got to catch them on the Octa tour. It was great but they cut the set short because Cedric was having issues with his voice.

 

I’m a big fan of Amp - always surprised to see it ranked after Bedlam or anything that came after

the first three is where it’s at IMO but I also enjoy some post-Amp stuff of course

la Volta live are a force to be reckoned with - was lucky enough to see them live three times & it was always amazing

 

I’m buying into the theory that Clouds Hill is sitting on/working on new Volta material.

almost certain we’ll finally be seeing some represses. My wallet is crying.

 

De-Loused is def the best starting point... consensus #1 and has a great mix of accessible and long/proggy stuff. Just an iconic record.

After that, not necessarily:
- Frances and Amp are incredibly dense and proggy with 5-10 minute sections of instrumental noise at times

- Bedlam (my personal #1) is a tour de force, probably their most diverse, heaviest, and most melodic with one earworm after another... same length as Francis, but spread across actual songs

- Oct is really accessible but more subdued and solemn with an acoustic focus

- Noct is like a more electronic and textural take on the Bedlam/Oct songwriting... a big slow grower for me

 

Deloused is the best starting point for sure. A classic record. Frances and Amp are dense and proggy but they're also the band at their most creative and idiosyncratic. I absolutely LOVE those records and consider them masterpieces. I actually could never emotionally connect with Bedlam, though it's a good album.

Oct is v underrated. That album is seriously gorgeous. I never got into Noct besides a few songs TBH.

 

I got to see them twice: once in 2008 on the Bedlam tour where they played a two and a half hour set with no breaks, it was legendary. Then I got to see three years later at a secret Coachella set when they were billed as a solo Omar set where they previewed a lot of Noctourniquet before we even knew a new album was coming.

 

What a great band. My favorites from each album:

Deloused - Cicatriz Esp
Frances - Cygnus..Vismund Cygnus
Amputechture - Viscera Eyes
Bedlam - Aberinkula
Octahedron - Luciforms
Noctourniquet - Zed and Two Naughts

 

With the way that Omar can pump out music/albums, if he was in any way focused on this it would be completed - no?

 

It's honestly hard to say anymore, he barely releases any music anymore so I have no barometer of what exists or not.

 

I mean, he did re-record that collection of old songs. One of my favorite vinyl purchases

 

Yeah, but three EPs of re-recorded music in three years is a far cry from 23 albums in two years

 

For sure. I remember Cedric implying that they’ve been working on stuff for awhile, I doubt anything is fully recorded though. I would be ecstatic for even the second Antemasque album

 

I'll take anything from any of their projects at this point

 

tossup - Drunkship / Take the Veil
Cygnus
Viscera
Metatron
Copernicus
In Absentia

 

Clouds Hill label owner is teasing something for tomorrow

 

This band will forever remind me of my daughter bc it was the last band I was listening to before my wife started having contractions lol. I am now a dad.

 

IM STARTING TO FEEEEEL A MISCARRIAGE COMING ONNNN


In actuality, that's amazing! Very happy for your family

 

Will they feed us the womb?

 

Holy shit holy shit

 

Before I get too overexcited, this may be a reissue of sorts, but maybe with bonus material? Either way... I'm listening

 

Holy shit. I’ll take anything.

 

Holy shit

 

nice!