LABEL:Clouds Hill
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 12/17/2021
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE:2006
VARIANT:Blue, White Vinyl 2LP

The Mars Voltas third full-length hearkened back to Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavalas post-hardcore pastat least kind of. Its the album where former At the Drive-In bassist Paul Hinojos re-entered his old bandmates orbit to add undulating sonic weirdness to their prog-freakouts, while the albums Viscera Eyes revisited unfinished riffs from the ATDI era.

On the other hand, that punkish energy had since transmogrified into the Mars Voltas broader soul-jazz vision quest of meter-twitchy progressive complexity, horn section explosiveness, and it featured extra guitar acrobatics from John Frusciante. Pure insanity.