The mars volta de-loused torrent

The only sensible summation of Venegas' demise seems to be that he proclaimed, "Now I'm lost," then "searched" for "something" for a "long time," then cried "Is anybody there," and finally "took" the ol' "veil cerpin taxt. Reprinting these lyrics in the liner notes might have helped to clarify the story, but that could as easily have ruined the experience-- dissecting the cryptic babble is half or more of the fun.

These lyrics, like At the Drive In's before them, are pure stream-of-consciousness. Only now they're delivered in a Geddy Lee castrato, treading helplessly in a tumultuous Great Lake of unplotted neo-prog.

Afterward, every song follows a pattern: roar out of the gate with the main riff, stop suddenly, float in reverby space where one can hear the smoke machines and laser shows, bring back the opening riff with added guitars noodling away, slurp up the noise in a sucking sound, hit the pachanga 'n' guitar solo movement, slowly fade in a swarm of dub effects, and, BAM, repeat step one. Think of a San Diego hardcore band.

The Mars Volta mistake sonic piling for complex architecture. No melodic themes are carried. Often you'll find yourself lost in a epic passage of dripping noises "Cicatrix ESP" or a robotic bleepdown "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" where the song even forgets itself, before the opening riff and chorus blare back in an "oh, right, this one" kind of way. Even acoustic interludes, like the one during the opening of "This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed", can't pass without Amazon bird recordings and distant e-bow.

Here, he's been asked to mix all of the above with added jam aplomb. He must have felt like John Cage telling his disgruntled punk grandsons to "do whatever. Each song sounds like if Led Zeppelin had released the version of "Dazed and Confused" off How the West Was Won instead of the concise cut on their debut. De-Loused in the Comatorium will undoubtedly rekindle prog, or at least spur a reassessment of the genre.

Though The Mars Volta may be prog in the traditional sense, they're in no way "progressive," just as The Hives do not record their music in a "garage. Wrenching indiepop heavy on synths and stormy melodies make for an LP that feels profound in its vision. Acoustic reworking of the cult emo band's debut, with turns from American Football's Nate Kinsella, the Kraken Quartet, and more. Sunhead by Plini. Complex, proggy songs from Sydney guitar wunderkind Plini. Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp.

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