The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute Vol Remastered from the original tapes

Remastered from the original tapes

Mount Paektu (an East Asian active volcano)

I often feel like we’re aliens

arrangement and production in order to bring the sound in their head to fruition

wafting vocals that veer between sombre and sweet

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute Vol Remastered from the original tapesFrances The Mute was no De Loused Part Two. For one thing, the bands configuration had changed, in the most painful way. Shortly before the release of De Loused, sound manipulator and founder member Jeremy Michael Ward passed away, a wound Omar says the group never recovered from. But even though his inspired fucking with the sonic parameters is absent from Frances The Mute, his spirit and influence can still be determined, the albums concept derived