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Scab Dates (CD)

By: The Mars Volta (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Scab Dates (CD) Album By The Mars Volta (Artist)
1   Abrasions Mount The Timpani
2   Take The Veil Cerpin Taxi: Gust Of Mutts / And Ghosted Pouts
3   Caviglia
4   Concertina
5   Haruspex
6   Cicatriz: Part I / Part II / Part III / Part IV
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (No. 988, p.122) - 3 out of 5 stars - "...[A] balls-out concert record made for the headphones."
Uncut (p.113) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[A] blend of free jazz, Cuban rhythms, prog-rock, metal and Afrobeat..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.118) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Haruspex' makes viscous dub soup out of febrile jazz organ and Cedric Bixler-Zavala's vocal ululations."

Title Note

The Mars Volta: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Jon Theodore, Amery Smith, Pablo Gonzalez, Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, Juan Alderette, Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, Henry Trejo, Adrian Gonzalez, Cedric Bixler Zavala.

Recording information: Sound City, Van Nuys, California (2004 - 2005).

Rising from the ashes of emo-punk band At The Drive-In, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Baxter-Zavala formed the anti-genre outfit the Mars Volta, one of the most far-out bands in contemporary rock. Like FRANCES THE MUTE, their sophomore album, SCAB DATES--a live album culled from various performances between 2003 and 2005--meshes psychedelia, hard rock, trance, Latin music, electronica, and progressive rock into a mercurial, unpredictable amalgam.

With their 19-piece band, Rodriguez-Lopez and Baxter-Zavala spin their audiences through a barrage of styles and a plethora of instrumentation. Surprisingly, the Mars Volta are able to replicate much of their insanely complex music in a live setting. This is the sort of brain-melting fare for which the term "trippy" was invented, and the disc's 72-minute duration gives the musicians plenty of room to stretch out (especially on the closer, "Cicatriz," which clocks in at about 40 minutes). Buckle your seatbelts.

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