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FRANCES THE MUTE

The Mars Volta

 

Heavy Prog

4.07 | 1003 ratings

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fernandoallendes
4 stars The lyrics do mean something! Check out www.thecomatorium.com and the forums there for a large number of interpretations of the "gibberish" ;D. Gets a 4 from me due to the largely misused ambient noise/pseudo-soundscape/Omar trying to sound like Can or Robert Fripp on acid as he over-doodles on electronics (I hate waiting 4 minutes for the beautiful Miranda) and because of the damn lousy Spanish singing (I'm Hispanic and believe me Cedric makes no sense... he writes in English and then translates to Spanish, it shows... therefore the language is... well I'll just say Damo Suzuki speaks better Rumanian than this dude Spanish). Had they fixed these little issues this album would have been a MASTERPIECE. Well, and added to that The Widow is way too poppy and sterile... cuts the album in half and breaks the beautiful continuity it would have. One of my favorite bands. One day I know they will release an album thats going to shake the f**king world (this one was so, so, so close).
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