The Mars Volta - Octahedron [6/23] *

Artist:

Mars Volta (The)

See Also:

Gong McLaughlin, John (Jazz) System Of A Down Sylvian, David Beck, Jeff

Description:

The Mars Volta: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Cedric Bixler Zavala.
Personnel: Cedric Bixler Zavala (vocals); Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, John Frusciante (guitar); Isaiah "Ikey" Owens (keyboards); Marcel Rodriguez Lopez (synthesizer); Juan Alderete De La Pena (bass instrument); Thomas Pridgen (drums).
For punk, metal or hard rock bands, the unplugged album is the one that shows whether they`ve been succeeding simply on energy and volume, or because of real talent. (Anyone who remained a skeptic of Kurt Cobain`s songwriting skills must have been converted by Nirvana`s MTV UNPLUGGED masterpiece.) And OCTAHEDRON, a quieter and more subdued Mars Volta album, proves that same fact for a band that`s perpetually lived on a knife`s edge of tension. Recorded in less than a month, OCTAHEDRON is by no means an unplugged album--it`s not acoustic, it`s not confined to ballads, and includes consecutive hard rockers in "Cotopaxi" and "Desperate Graves"--but it charts a different direction for the group, and proves they don`t need to shuttle between dynamic extremes in order to succeed on an artistic level.

Track Listing:

DISC 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

Album Information

Release Date:

06/23/2009

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Alternative

Label:

Warner Bros. Records (Record Label)

Producer:

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Catalog Number:

519384

Original Release Year:

2009

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

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