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FRANCES THE MUTE

The Mars Volta

 

Heavy Prog

4.07 | 1011 ratings

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markosherrera
4 stars This is a very strange music that mix the retro of the ends of 60,s with earlys 70,s and avant garde elements,this is a very progressive album with very long songs,dramatic sounds,there are hardcore,psychedelic sounds.blues,free jazz,latin music(salsa),the guitar many times is frenetic,the first song have riffs influenced by Crimson,the singer seems a crazy ,there are winds (trumpet)and the latin piano of Larry Harlow,theL,Via L Viaquezhave a very latin sound and I like the solo of Frusciante.In The Widow,the voice is good,original,emotional and dramatic,have blues,there are some of Zeppellin here and Pink Floyd in the next track.Cassandra Gemini is very very long,divided in parts,is full of sounds of improvisation.In definitive,this is not an album for people that only like commercial music,sometimes is noisy,AND ACID.I believe that 4 stars is ok
markosherrera | 4/5 |

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