It just sounds like you have unrealistic expectations. Honestly, what else did you expect from The Mars Volta? This album is more of the same. That's a good thing, since it was never really bad to begin with.

If I sound like a prick, well ... yeah. You're finally getting it.

I've had just over two weeks to get used to this, and I'm still not really impressed. Some could argue that it's slightly better than FTM, but as I already have some fond memories with that one, this goes straight to the bottom of their pile.

Other than De-Loused (which I consider one of the top 10 albums of the last 15 years), their last two, much like a lot of ATDI's stuff, always sounded like they were looking for something but weren't really sure if they found it. Therefore, they thrust it upon the listener to see if THEY find anything in it. If you do, all the better. To me, though, it really is too much of a grab bag, and they haven't been able to crack the art of writing long, *interesting* pieces.

Perhaps when they stop attemping to present the same concepts ad nauseum in the hope that something sticks, I'll consider them on something other than a project, not band, on the decline.

Album Rating: 4.5

Just got my copy today as a little birthday gift/gift for passing my driver's permit test.

Hopefully with the next album they'll actually take a new direction and maybe mix up the sound a little bit.

Album Rating: 4.5

We'll see...



I'd buy it anyways, I love everything Cedric and Omar have done.

Album Rating: 4.0

Frances The Mute is still my favourite Mars Volta album, but I'm really diggin this album too. And in other news I just got back from the Mars Volta and Chili Peppers concert in Calgary and it was incredible. The Volta played The Widow, Roulette Dares, Tetragrammation, and others I can't remember the names of haha...but it was really great, and the Chili's were awesome too.

Album Rating: 4.5

Oshi. It's finally starting to grow on me past my original rating. Tetragrammaton is seriously rivaling Cygnus for my fave TMV song.



If It does end up a 5, TMV will be the only band other than Nine Inch Nails to have 2 5/5 albums. Which is just bonkers!



As for the Review: Was It good?, did it make me want to cover my house in duct tape?, was it very unbiased?. Well, I'll say a little(a lot) of each.

Album Rating: 2.0

Really, I liked Frances The Mute, but I still can't get into this. Maybe it's a grower though.

Album Rating: 2.0

Maybe I'm having a bad day, but this album is fucking ridiculous. I turned it off after "Vermicide".

I've never done that to an album. Ever.

Album Rating: 2.5

I just can't get interested when I listen to this. It's incoherent and overindulgent, I just plain don't like it. The masturbatory instrumentations are kinda fun though.

Album Rating: 2.0

i'll change my rating when i finish listening to it, but as it stands, this album is abominable

Album Rating: 4.5

Trust me, it'll grow on you

Album Rating: 2.0

OK, I finished listening to it and then I listened to it again, and I'll say that its not a 1, but it remains none too great.

Tracks 1-4 range from being tolerable ("Vicarious Atonement") to utterly unlistenable and unnecessarily long and pointless ("Tetragrammaton", "Meccamputechture").

"Asilos Magdalena" and "Viscera Eyes" are great tracks, and "Day of the Baphomets" would be too if they got rid of the avant-garde sax and chopped off the last 2-3mins.

Plus the album really doesn't need to be 76 min. long.

Album Rating: 4.0

Have you ever listened to the Mars Volta before? There the guys that wrote L'Via L'Viaquez, and Roulette Dares...this music isn't much different from anything they did one their first two albums.

Album Rating: 2.0

yes, I've listened to (and own) all their albums, other than the live one. I keep buying into TMV because I love ATDI, and I keep hoping that the album will be good. I like De-Loused, Frances the Mute was alright, but this album really shows that their "creativity" is really a one-trick pony: its the same stuff being repeated. Nonsensical lyrics, overstuffed songs, abrupt key changes, 70 min albums.

Nothing has changed except for some in a few areas, notably the vocals. Cedric is a much better vocalist now, but he also tends to indulge more in these nasally high register notes that can equated to torture. Most of the blame moreso goes to Omar who seems intent on delivering the most careless guitarlines and ear-bleeding tones in their career so far.

The band is at its best when the songs are much more cohesive and direct, actually like the songs you suggested, but this album is full of spontaneous crap that ironically makes it boring and predictable.

Album Rating: 4.5

No Wai Zesty, This album is great! Tell me whats nonsensical about The kiosk in Ced's temporal lobe being shaped like Rosalyn Carter?



I think I may be writing a 4.5 Review for this in a week or so, BUT I MUST REVIEW KENNA OR ILL DIE!!!This Message Edited On 09.19.06

I pretty much agree with Zesty.

Album Rating: 3.0

I should've got this majestic piece of heaven earlier....

Every time I read reviews and/or other people's 'opinions' of TMV, it pisses me off and ruins the music for me.

Album Rating: 2.0

um, why?