March 26, 2008 @ 8:00 am
The Mars Volta, "The Bedlam in Goliath" (Music)
The sheer range of sounds is dizzying.
California eight-piece The Mars Volta have made albums about the left/right brain face-off of an addict in a drug coma and set their late sound tech’s diary to music. Bedlam, their fourth effort, details a song-cycle about a Ouija board. Naturally. Luckily, the band’s punk-prog swarm is more than up to realizing frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s lyrical fantasies. The sheer range of sounds is dizzying—Ornette Coleman-esque horn-squiggles (“Aberinkula”), quasar-clear basslines (“Agadez”), Bixler-Zavala’s inhuman falsetto (“Ouroboros”). Rarely does rock music feel so simultaneously orchestrated and raw.
Article tags: Revolutions, The Mars Volta
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