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Written by Aaron Kayce
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Wednesday, 13 September 2006 |
The Mars Volta
Amputechture
GSL/Universal
On its third full-length, Amputechture, The Mars Volta doesn’t do anything drastically different; rather, it continues to refine its epic, bilingual, psychedelic rock bombast. Most of the material hovers around the ten-minute mark and tends to incorporate the Volta’s formula of pushing songs to a breaking point of tension-filled guitars, relentless drums and accosting vocals before giving way to massive, sublime guitar jams.
Produced by guitarist/founder Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, the album features Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante on every track as well as the first studio appearance of Paul Hinojos, who played with Lopez and singer/founder Cedrix Bixler-Zavala in their previous band, At the Drive-In. Although the eight-song, 76-minute album is full of disturbing images and uncomfortable combinations of notes slammed together, it also features a ballad (“A Vicarious Atonement”) and the beautifully haunting “Asilos Magdalena” with only a Flamenco guitar and Zavala’s understated Spanish vocals. Aaron Kayce
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