AMPUTECHTURE

This is The Mars Volta's materpiece.. well, their biggest masterpiece. Amputechture is a non-stop psychotic ride of TMV's craziest work yet. At first, you may not like it much, you may think that it isn't TMV, well, not asking you to define TMV for me, I do want you to listen to it more than a 10 times. Just go into it and don't expect anything. The album has absolutely everything they've ever done inlcuding the following:

John Frusciante on EVERY SONG. Fantastic drums, Jon Theodore outdid himself. Saxophone (there is also a sax/guitar solo on Day of the Baphomets). Voice alteration, much more than on FTM and about the same amount used on De-Loused. NO ambiance (where it is alone and by itself, it is, instead inside of the music, not apart from it, like in France). Jazz, plenty of it, and it goes very natural with the music You can hear IKEY, yes, he's the keyboardist, if you didn't know. Haha. Cedric sings at probably his highest yet. Very energetic... the kind of energy ATDI used, just that TMV doesn't scream, or use incredibly manipulated guitar

Any TMV fan will like this if they give it a chance and if you haven't been a fan of FTM, this will surely reassure your thoughts on the band.