The Mars Volta, Frances the Mute - 1h 17m 20s

Tracks & Durations

1. Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus: Sarcophagi	13:04
2. Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus: Umbilical Syllables	5:52
3. Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus: Facilis Descenus Averni	12:23
4. Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus: Con Safo	13:11
5. The Widow	4:47
6. L' Via l'Viaquez	6:42
7. Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore: Vade Mecum	2:57
8. Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore: Pour Another Icepick	7:43
9. Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore: Pisacis (Phra-Men-Ma)	5:01
10. Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore: Con Safo	3:50
11. Cassandra Geminni: Tarantism	0:48
12. Cassandra Geminni: Plant a Nail in the Navel Stream	0:53

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Review

If one needed further proof of the contemporary revival/reassessment of the ambitiously overwrought sensibilities once so reviled in '70s rock, this aggressively mindbending second album by the Mars Volta offers it up in spades. Band mainstays Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala insist that labels like "prog" don't interest them, and that this is emphatically not a "sequel" to 2003's De-Loused in the Comatorium. What it is was thematically inspired by a stranger's diary allegedly found by late bandmate Jeremy Ward, the basis for an expansive, often amorphous musical head-trip that brews psychedelia, trance, hard-rock and free-jazz into a daunting new whole. The dozen tracks here represent but five "songs" proper, though the band's disdain for conventional track banding inspire it to sound more like a stream-of-consciousness soundscape from Can--or a dark, lyrically inventive, if decidedly troubled corner of their ids. On the "Umbilical Syllables" portion of "Cygnus.." and "The Widow" Bixler-Zavala invokes the wailing, Led Zeppelin II & III spirit of Robert Plant set against a feverish, swirling melange that's anything but the blues. The vocalist coaxes "L' Via l'Viaquez" en Espanol, while his band indulges its space-mambo conceits with an evocative spirit that recalls Latin Playboys at their most mischievous. It's an album that loops back on itself in a haunting ellipse--and one whose boundless ambition makes Pink Floyd sound like three-chord bar punters by comparison. --Jerry McCulley

Other Versions

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Frances the Mute

Tracks: 5 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 1h 17m (-1m 40s)

Frances The Mute

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 1h 16m 59s (-1m 39s)

Frances The Mute

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 1h 16m 57s (-1m 37s)

Frances The Mute

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 1h 17m 43s (+0m 23s)

Frances the Mute

Tracks: 5 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 33s (-1m 13s)

Frances the Mute

Tracks: 5 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 6s (-2m 46s)

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