CALIBRATION (IS PUSHING LUCK AND KEY TOO FAR)

One of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez albums you can easily leave on the shelf. Whenever bigger part of this great musician's solo works is really more experimental (and often more interesting) than more respectable ( if The Mars Volta's music could be named "respectable") his main band's albums, some solo albums are just fillers.

This one is from such category. You can find there almost all TMV musicians participated in recordings (in different combinations), and bigger part of songs are with different vocalists singing ( not only Cedric Bixler-Zavala ). But it doesn't change situation too much - in fact this album sounds as chaotic and badly recorded and mixed collection of TMV outtakes and rehearsals.

There are few small interesting musical moments, but generally material is very raw, songs are unfinished, placed on album in chaotic order, without minimal useable production. And music itself is mostly uninspired. Just dirty sounding pieces of songs or demo compositions.

Possibly, this release still could be interesting for TMV/O-R-L heavy fans and researchers, but has nothing to offer to regular music listener.