The Mars Volta arrives in September.
American prog rock luminaries The Mars Volta have announced the release of a new album.
Having recently risen from a lengthy slumber, the looming eponymous project marks the revered El Paso outfit’s first new full-length release in ten years, featuring among its track list the previously shared singles ‘Blacklight Shine’ and ‘Graveyard Love’.
Set for arrival on September 16th, the release of The Mars Volta precedes a largely sold out tour of North America that will see the group embark upon performances in New York, Boston, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles and more.
A press release for the album explains
“The new album shakes loose some of The Mars Volta’s long-standing shibboleths, fearlessly defying all expectations and categorizations. Instead, The Mars Volta pulses with subtle brilliance, Caribbean rhythms underpinning sophisticated, turbulent songcraft. This is The Mars Volta at their most mature, most concise, most focused. Their sound and fury channeled to greatest effect, The Mars Volta finds Rodríguez-López’s subterranean pop melodies driving Bixler-Zavala’s dark sci-fi tales of the occult and malevolent governments.”
Stripping away much of the bombastic progressive sensibilities that garnered the group global acclaim in favour of a decidedly more sparse and streamlined approach, hear new single ‘Vigil’ below.
The Mars Volta
1 ‘Blacklight Shine’
2 ‘Graveyard Love’
3 ‘Shore Story’
4 ‘Blank Condolences’
5 ‘Vigil’
6 ‘Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon’
7 ‘Cerulea’
8 ‘Flash Burns from Flashbacks’
9 ‘Palm Full of Crux’
10 ‘No Case Gain’
11 ‘Tourmaline’
12 ‘Equus 3’
13 ‘Collapsible Shoulders’
14 ‘The Requisition’
The Mars Volta releases on 16th September via Clouds Hill Recordings. Pre-order the album on black vinyl here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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