FRANCES THE MUTE

The album opens up with Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus which starts out slow then just explodes to a strange Multi-section piece.A thing I noticed about this album when this song plays that Frontman Cedric Bixler voice has improved from De-loused 's kinda iritating vocals to simlar but more focused song-oriented vocals unlike the previous albums vocals which are almost impossible to figure out.

Next is their radio single The Widow.Decent track with Flea(from The Red Hot Chilli Peppers) Playing not Bass,but a Trumpet,and he's not bad.The weird ending was not featured in the radio(hear it and you'll know why)and the radio version is only a little bit over 3 minutes long.

Then the 90% spanish spoken L'viad L'lviaquiez comes out of nowwhere with a Guitar solo from John Fruciscate.The song is more Rock then Prog,which is ok cause the songs great.

Miranda That Ghost... is a great song too.Least favorite,but good though.

Then the 32-minute Cassandra Geminni plays.Words can't describe how good this song is.

Overall Frances The Mute is the best Prog-Rock album in a while and I reccomend it to any Prog-Rock fan looking something new and awesome.

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