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    John Mitchell liked and reviewed Frances the Mute
    
    Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore: D. Con Safo Is such an incredible piece of music. Think i have listened to it more than 5 times today alone.
    
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    Branden Palomo liked and reviewed Frances the Mute
    
    Getting in the mood for seeing them tomorrow with Soundgarden!
    
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    Jared favorited and reviewed Frances the Mute
    
    This album changed my life. It's akin to an arcane, dark baptism of sorts. If the film Lost Highway could speak, this album is what it would say. Greatest album ever. Enough said.
    
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    Obed liked and reviewed Frances the Mute
    
    *immitating guitar*duh duh duh duh durrrr duh dur duuhhhhhhhhhhh drruuuuhhhhhhhh!!!!
    
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    JediMobius liked and reviewed Frances the Mute
    
    The first track, Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus was my introduction to the Mars Volta, and it blew my mind - I hadn't even really listened to Pink Floyd yet. I got to see the band play the first 3 tracks... more
    
    The first track, Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus was my introduction to the Mars Volta, and it blew my mind - I hadn't even really listened to Pink Floyd yet. I got to see the band play the first 3 tracks to a packed stadium in Florida, which was apparently a rare show since Cedric wasn't stealing people's beer to throw at the audience, but actually singing. I guess he started doing that after the tour with System of a Down. Anecdotal: my friend who played me this record later thought the lead singer was a chick, I should've bet him a copius amount of money to the contrary. Stupid hindsight.
    
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Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.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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By The Mars Volta, 2005

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