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"Octahedron" CD by The Mars Volta

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Even though it gets tough again and again: on album number five of the kings of Progrock it's clearly calmer and more acoustic as before.
Item no. 125936
Title Octahedron
Musical Genre Progressive Rock
Product topic Bands
Band The Mars Volta
Release date 6/19/09
Product type CD
Media - Format 1-3 CD

CD 1

  • 1.
    Since We've Been Wrong
  • 2.
    Teflon
  • 3.
    Halo of Nembutals
  • 4.
    With Twilight as My Guide
  • 5.
    Cotopaxi
  • 6.
    Desperate Graves
  • 7.
    Copernicus
  • 8.
    Luciforms

by Oliver Kube (24.07.2009) Mostly, the fifth album by The Mars Volta shows another side of the ex-At The Drive In members Omar Rodrรญguez-Lรณpez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala. "Since we've been wrong", the opening track which is over 7 minutes long (seriously starting only at 1:40, though) already gives a hint: distinctly calmer moments, many of them acoustical, accompanied by Bixler-Zavala's mainly harmonious vocals. Ok, you still have "Cotopaxi" (reminding you once more of Led Zep's wilder moments), or Space Rock-y "Teflon" still shaking your book shelf, but yet, the highlight of this opus is one of the "softer" songs: airy, but well-focussed "Copernicus". This composition, full of Soul and psychedelic elements, truly unveils the breathtakingly atmospheric soundscape Rodrรญguez-Lรณpez brilliantly constructed when producing this disc.