THE BEDLAM IN GOLIATH

This is my first listen to this in six years, dating back to the days where I didn't really get The Mars Volta at all. In fact, this was the first record I heard from them and it really confused my teenage mind who thought prog was just alt-rock with long songs at the time. In the intervening years, not only did I get a taste for Volta themselves via Deloused, but over the last few years I've even been turned around on their newer material, to the point where this is now the only album of theirs I don't love. About time for a revisit then?

And you know what, I quite like it. I'll have to give it some more spins but I found myself enjoying parts of pretty much every song, and there's definitely room for growth there too. It does suffer a bit from being quite long and a few songs meander, but if there's anything I've learned from my experience with this band, it's that you learn to love the meanders after a while.

7.0 (4th listen)

Part of my listening diary from my facebook music blog - www.facebook.com/TheExoskeletalJunction

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