The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Ok. I guess your album title is playing with words. Great. This album follows their epic concept album "Frances the Mute". They go for a concept album again but.....do it better. 8 songs. Long songs. This album is worth the buy for song 4 "Meccamputechture". The sh&t! This song gets across my favorite led zepp side of them plus it has a great solid rock vibe. This song is one of the best songs of 2006! This album tends to focus more on blues and santana inspirations than anything else. Really solid on a rock vibe except for the long songs. Really solid on the short songs (which is different for them). They ditched the jam band thang on the short songs. And on some of the long ones. John Frusciante from the RHCP is all over this sh&t and a band member now. Song 4 I think has Frusciante doing all the solos and he cooks on them! Buy this song if no other one. 11 minutes. But the album follows minutes like this for their 8 songs: 7, 17, 4, 11, 7, 9, 12, 9. There are acoustic ballads and a lot of impromptu espanol. Cedric said he makes up words in spanish just to mess with the spanish fans. But he messes with english too. Overall they are trying for too much after At the Drive In. But I like that they went hardcore anti-radio emo. Viscera Eyes is there most tight single sine ATDI. Great. Horns. Hard rock. Great. Check this album out!
5 Thumbs
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