FRANCES THE MUTE

There are so many different aspects in it that initially you'd love to dissect the album into bits and pieces, only to find out that the task is unattainable. This is a piece of work that clearly was intended to be listened as a whole. Additional evidence for that is that the track titles do not coincide with the actual tracks -apparently Universal Records wouldn't call a five-track work an album but an EP (lasting over 72 min!)

If there's a word that would describe it at first is LOUD, but then when you grow into it, while going thru the weird Spanish-sung-hardcore and English-Sung-salsa mix of "L'via L'viaquez", you start noticing aspects well beyond the angst and evolve into the freak atmosphere created by the long intro in "Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore" to be taken into the epic "Cassandra Geminni" where the band really does really take their dark concept into an epic journey rarely seen these days.