WTF!? New Volta albulm?

[Bahs]

http://www.boomonline.com/uploaded_pictures/813_1.jpg

i just NOW figured this awesomeness out. i need to get my shit together :eek:

[one_crow_sorrow]

It's alright. It's probably my least favourite album of theirs though.

[Bahs]

yeah im listening to some of the songs...its a lot more mellow
im more partial to the balls-to-the-wall batshit insane Volta.

but yeah one of the songs leaked awhile back and i could never figure out where it was, but im really digging a few of them

im sure it will grow on me like all their albulms

[echo_bravo]

Thanks for the heads up dude!

I looked up on wikipedia and apparently its called Octahedron. Omar describes it as their "mellow" album.

[Bahs]

Thanks for the heads up dude!

I looked up on wikipedia and apparently its called Octahedron. Omar describes it as their "mellow" album.

yeah its actually not bad stuff, you can listen to the whole thing on Youtube actually, my favorite songs at this point would have to be
-Halo Of Nembutals
-Since We've Been Wrong
and
-Cotopaxi

actually ya know what i would have preferred? if they released this as a duel albulm with Bedlam, because i think they were working on it around the same time. i think it complements TBiG well.

got a few gripes with it, but they are trivial really.
-too short
-some of the songs i would like to, never build to the epic, towering crescendos that their previous albums have, they just kinda flow along.

[Jon Lyrik]

I like it. The mellowness makes it a strange departure from Bedlam.

[therealjohng]

I like it a lot.

[poguesfan]

Haven't heard it yet, but I don't think it will duplicate the brilliance of Deloused In a Comatorium or even Francis The Mute.

[Bahs]

Haven't heard it yet, but I don't think it will duplicate the brilliance of Deloused In a Comatorium or even Francis The Mute.

I always liked Amputechture(sp?)

Tetragrammaton and Day of the Blaphomets are easily my favorite songs my them, along with "Goliath" from Bedlam

[Jerk Shapiro]

I'm about to check into this. One of the best bands working today...

[Jerk Shapiro]

This is badass... Thomas Pridgen is a beast back there behind the set. And I really like the departure from their normal sound.

Another success indeed!

[Bahs]

i just hope they keep pumping out albums, i have yet to be disappointed

[Ayestrain]

Very interested in hearing this. Bedlam In Goliath had some good stuff, but overall it was very shrill and fatiguing to listen to, even for them. I don't mind that they're trying something different this time..

From Allmusic.com:

For punk, metal, or hard rock bands, the unplugged album is the one that shows whether they've been succeeding simply on energy and volume or because of real talent. (Anyone who remained a skeptic of Kurt Cobain's songwriting skills must have been converted by Nirvana's MTV Unplugged masterpiece.) And Octahedron, a quieter and more subdued Mars Volta album, proves that same fact (if not at the same level as Nirvana) for a band that's perpetually lived on a knife's edge of tension. Recorded in less than a month, Octahedron is by no means an unplugged album -- it's not acoustic, it's not confined to ballads, and it includes consecutive hard rockers in "Cotopaxi" and "Desperate Graves" -- but it charts a different direction for the Mars Volta, and proves they don't need to shuttle between dynamic extremes in order to succeed on an artistic level. The format allows a greater role and more space for John Frusciante, who accompanies Cedric Bixler-Zavala's vocals well, and also provides his own highlights, channeling the Edge on the emotional "Teflon" and, later, echoing Pink Floyd on "With Twilight as My Guide." With a few exceptions, Zavala's lyrics are as arcane as ever; the glossary for "Halo of Nembutals" alone would include the words "vermin," "sloth," "ringworms," "necrophiliacs," "carcinogen," "asp," "communion-shaped," and "palindromes." Still, they achieve scrutability far more often than in the past, and reveal more of the tenderness that was occasionally visible in Mars Volta material. ("Since We've Been Wrong," the single and first track, is especially affecting.) Calling this an unplugged album is useful only in relation to what the group has produced in the past, but what the Mars Volta created on Octahedron will provide them with more range and opportunities in the future.

[Mr. Scratch]

It's definitely not De-Loused or Francis, but I respect it nonetheless. I've talked to a lot of people who aren't digging it. In my opinion, it's a good thing that they keep changing their sound from album to album. It just shows their range. I'm hoping for some more mellow songs in the future, but it will be good to get back to the batshit craziness of their other albums as well.