ALL THE TRAPS IN THE CELLAR GO CLICKETY CLACK
'CAUSE YOU KNOW I'M GONNA SET THEM FOR YOUUUUU


HEEEYEAHHH
HEEEYOOOOOOOOOOOOUH

shit dude not even people who like the mars volta can agree about anything

Album Rating: 3.0

MY HANDS SECRETE A MONUMENT!!

MY HANDS SECRETE A MONUMENT!!

dude not even relevant but that's a good song too

yeah think this is now tied for my 2nd favorite volta.

what's the first?

i'll have to refresh myself with Frances which was tied with De-Loused for a while but i think this still tops it

Frances > this = Ampu > Deloused > Octa > Bedlam

i am hella surprised you didn't put Octa last
pisa shiet

Album Rating: 4.0

still digging this hard... not a fan of the cover art though.

yeah that looks like someone's myspace header

yeah i like Octa. it's just not up to their usual standard.

i like Bedlam too, but it's a mess. it's a highly enjoyable mess, but still a mess.

Album Rating: 4.0

i might bump it back up to 4.5.. i dont think i dislike any songs. also some of Cedric's sickest vocal melodies are on this for sure.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Its better than anything post-Frances if we're talking quality songs

Album Rating: 3.0

not even close. if you're talking 'songs' frances is the most fragmented album of them all. One helluva listen, but not to be broken up into individual songs.



amputechture and bedlam are full of mind blowing twists and turns. to me, (admittedly after only a couple of listens) this is approximating something like the dear hunter or portugal. the man (in other words, I ain't hearing anything original)

Album Rating: 4.0

what? frances is easily broken into individual songs. and they all stand on their own very well.



wtf are you saying bro? this isn't original? lol

Album Rating: 3.0

lol



i just thought that this was an interesting phrase:



"Its better than anything post-Frances if we're talking quality songs"



I think of Frances as a quality album; I just don't think of it as individual songs



and yeah, first impression is that this sounds too much like other stuff to be considered

original

Album Rating: 4.0

what? i think of post-frances as amp, bedlam, oct, and noc.... all quality original albums with their own unique quirks and outstanding songs.



i'd say in abstentia and malkin jewel sound nothing like anything else they've done...and those are probably my favourite two tracks here.

Album Rating: 3.0

i also agree with the malkin jewel - love cedric's vocals at the end



the percussion throughout the whole album is also quite interesting



in regards to:



"what? i think of post-frances as amp, bedlam, oct, and noc.... all quality original albums with their own unique quirks and outstanding songs."



agreed - i'm doing about 5 things at once atm and so probably not communicating my point very clearly

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

malkin jewel is poopy

Album Rating: 3.0

fuck all these technical terms

Album Rating: 4.0

From the mountains of avarice this I beg to you

My ether turns flesh to gravel



cedric fucking slays at that part so hard. i raise my hand in the air and yell at it like i'm some fuckin epic egyptian god or some shit. y'know.