The Mars Volta: The Bedlam in Goliath
Copy at Case Memorial Library
Brian LaRue wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "The Mars Volta's … catalogue at this point sounds like a continued exercise in seeing what they can get away with. That's not a dig. Their early work sounded like a spasmodic reaction to guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez' and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala's liberation from the genre and compositional strictures of At the Drive In, their now-legendary old post-hardcore band. But with each progressive (pun intended) album, they've thrown new challenges at their listeners (not to mention at themselves) while more clearly defining their sound. Three albums of tight-jeans wailing, freaky treated vocals, Magnetic Poetry-esque lyrics, spaced-out sound effects, schizoid song structures, 10-minute-plus tracks, woodly guitar solos, stuttering time signatures and bombastic pounding later, they're poised to release a new one, The Bedlam in Goliath, ostensibly a concept album (their third!) based on lust-and-murder stories dictated to the band by a Ouija-ish board that messed with the band's heads and gear. Got it? Great. Now try to hold on for the duration of the show" (1/10/08, p. 31).
Brian LaRue wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "The Mars Volta's … catalogue at this point sounds like a continued exercise in seeing what they can get away with. That's not a dig. Their early work sounded like a spasmodic reaction to guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez' and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala's liberation from the genre and compositional strictures of At the Drive In, their now-legendary old post-hardcore band. But with each progressive (pun intended) album, they've thrown new challenges at their listeners (not to mention at themselves) while more clearly defining their sound. Three albums of tight-jeans wailing, freaky treated vocals, Magnetic Poetry-esque lyrics, spaced-out sound effects, schizoid song structures, 10-minute-plus tracks, woodly guitar solos, stuttering time signatures and bombastic pounding later, they're poised to release a new one, The Bedlam in Goliath, ostensibly a concept album (their third!) based on lust-and-murder stories dictated to the band by a Ouija-ish board that messed with the band's heads and gear. Got it? Great. Now try to hold on for the duration of the show" (1/10/08, p. 31).
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