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The Mars Volta

Heavy Prog

3.89 | 644 ratings

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This is without a doubt the most sophisticated, profound Mars Volta album to date. Everything is present, and unabashedly progressive...

The band makes more extensive use of horns and synthesizers, and with much more subtlety than on the previous record.

At times Bixler-Zavala's vocals are a bit poppy, even oppressive, but still preferable to those of many other prominent 'art rock' acts of the seventies and the current prog revival era.

The only weak track on the album is 'Viscera Eye', and only because of a rather unimaginative, obvious guitar hook at the beginning which pales in comparison to the rest of the album's work.

InfinityParadox | 5/5 | 2006-7-14

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