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The Mars Volta Enter the Octahedron
New album out in June
Photo by Ross Halfin
Behold! It’s the new Mars Volta album! Titled Octahedron and due out June 23 onWarner Bros., the album clocks in at an uncharacteristically trim 49 minutes. Why, that’s practically an EP by Mars Volta standards! Shockingly, Octahedroncontains seven songs, not eight. They do all have typically cryptic titles, though.
On the album, the core Mars Volta duo of guitarist/sound wizard Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala are joined once again by multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, drummer Thomas Pridgen, keyboardist Isaiah “Ikey” Owens, bassist Juan Alderete de la Peña, and guitarist John Frusciante (who is also in some other band, apparently? Ice Cold Hot Salts or something?)
The Mars Volta plan to tour behind Octahedron; so far, only dates at Bonnaroo and Outside Lands have been announced.
As previously reported, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez will release Cryptomnesia, the debut album from his new band El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, which features pretty much everybody else in the Mars Volta, as well as Hella drummer Zach Hill. Oh yeah, and he also worked on the new Juliette Lewis album.
Octahedron tracklist below.
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01 Teflon
02 Halo of Nembutals
03 With Twilight as My Guide
04 Cotopaxi
05 Desperate Graves
06 Copernicus
07 Luciforms
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