MARS VOLTA - s/t LP afrobeat Combining sounds from his native

Combining sounds from his native North Carolina with an avant-garde sensibility honed in New York City’s loft scene in the 1960s

All of Segall’s usual psych-pop sensibilities are present but Slaughterhouse adds the full-throttle

They formed in 1978 in disbanded in 1983

like two different recording sessions sharing the same space and making it work

Not that it's necessarily any better - it's just that with the Angels of Light Gira seems a lot happier with what he's doing

MARS VOLTA - s/t LP afrobeat Combining sounds from his nativeIncludes 4 pg booklet with lyrics and liner notes. After 6 albums of progressive rock, much (but not all) of which was energetic, experimental, and highly complex and re listenable, this album is a pivot towards pop rock, specifically art pop and art rock with electronic elements. If you'd been paying attention to TMV near their inital breakup, their last 2 albums hinted at this direction, with the comparatively more traditional song structures of