Release Date: 29 November 2024
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Clouds Hill
£27.99
The Mars Volta Octahedron Limited Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
Each of the Mars Volta albums that preceded Octahedron had pushed the envelope further, their music growing larger,more intense, more complex. Each had delivered an implied, unspoken challenge to its makers within milliseconds of itsfinal notes: “top this”. And with each subsequent album, Omar and Cedric had turned their creative dials up one morenotch, a further step past “eleven”. With the addition of new drummer Thomas Pridgen, and their ranks swollen by extraguitarists, more percussion and a sax-player, the intensity of The Mars Volta’s sound had increased. Octahedron,however, would follow The Bedlam In Goliath’s brilliant excesses with a sideways step few were expecting, even thoughthe group had telegraphed their intentions to take this new direction for years. “This one didn’t have multi-layered sub-texts or any sinister spirits,” says Omar, referencing predecessor Goliath’s traumatic birth. “Octahedron was like anexpression of will into reality. Like, ‘This one will be easy, this one will be fun’. Everything had a different process.”“Octahedron was a rebellion,” adds Cedric. “Us saying, ‘This isn’t like anything we’ve done before. This is our “pop”album.’ We’d always promised we’d do a ‘pop’ album.’ This was it.”
Featured Tracks:
Side: 1
1 Since We've Been Wrong
2 Teflon
Side: 2
1 With Twilight As My Guide
2 Halo Of Nembutals
Side: 3
1 Cotopaxi
2 Desperate Graves
Side: 4
1 Copernicus
2 Luciforms
Release Date: 29 November 2024
Format: EP Vinyl
Label: Clouds Hill
£16.99
Release Date: 29 November 2024
Format: LP Triple Vinyl
Label: Clouds Hill
£29.99
Release Date: 29 November 2024
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Cloud Hill
£29.99
Release Date: 03 April 2024
Format: 12inch Vinyl Single
Label: Universal
£35.00
