OCTAHEDRON

The Mars Volta always bring something new in the heavy prog area, but in this case the listener feels a little disoriented by what his ears can appreciate.

What we can find is something more "song oriented", nothing about the energy and the craziness of their first two albums, neither the extreme hard passages for what they are famous and appreciated.

This doesn't mean that "Octahedron" is a bad album, the opposite!

Blixer and Lopez are always great in creativity, interpretation and feeling. The vocals and the guitar in "Copernicus" are greatly inspired.

Luckily they also have great musicians at their retinue, who can well support them.

"Octahedron" is pervaded by melancholic feeling, has more acoustic (in Mars Volta manner) passages and sometimes sounds more "pop" than the preceding works. But it's not "pop" in a bad way. It seems to be only more accessible and less aggressive to the ear

When you listen to it after the first time you can find a lot of hidden gems you can't catch at first: a strange passage, surprising bass lines, non-conventional drumming, etc.

I think that 4 stars could be too much, but 3,5 is correct

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