The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet - Single "The Malkin Jewel" released

Metal student Number of posts: 215 Age: 28 Registration date: 2010-04-03

http://www.themarsvolta.com/splash/

Finally some confirmation. This album has been rumored to be out "soon" for about a year it seems. Here's the track listing.

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1. The Whip Hand
2. Aegis
3. Dyslexicon
4. Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound
5. The Malkin Jewel
6. Lapochka
7. In Absentia
8. Imago
9. Molochwalker
10. Trinkets Pale Of Moon
11. Vedamaly
12. Noctourniquet
13. Zed And Two Naughts

Cover art kind of reminds me of the SNES version of Star Fox or something.

Metal student Number of posts: 215 Age: 28 Registration date: 2010-04-03

New Single has been released, entitled "The Malkin Jewel." You can listen to it here or download it at amazon/itunes.

I've only listened to this song once so far but even for The Mars Volta, it's pretty weird. I'm liking it though. Some of the strangeness has an air of Piper at the Gates of Dawn to my ears, which wouldn't be surprising since TMV have always professed a love for Syd Barret-era Floyd.

I'll need to listen to this a few more times before fully processing it.

Metal is Forever Number of posts: 5334 Age: 36 Registration date: 2009-10-22

Meh. As usual.

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Metal graduate Number of posts: 350 Age: 26 Registration date: 2010-12-19

im not overly impressed, but its listenable and i still anticipate the new album.

Metal student Number of posts: 215 Age: 28 Registration date: 2010-04-03

Yes, it's not the most brilliant song ever, but such is often the case for leading singles. I do enjoy the song. I'll definitely buy the new album on the day of its release

Metal student Number of posts: 177 Age: 48 Registration date: 2007-08-24

More trippy nostalgia wrapped in immense talent from the Mars Volta! I will be buying this CD!

Administrator Number of posts: 12392 Age: 41 Registration date: 2008-07-12

I admire their audacity and salute their influences...but this really doesn't work on any level.

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almost like "Vegetable Man", interesting.

The King Number of posts: 15608 Age: 38 Registration date: 2007-02-10

I still prefer Frances the Mute

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Metal student Number of posts: 215 Age: 28 Registration date: 2010-04-03

S.D. wrote:

I admire their audacity and salute their influences...but this really doesn't work on any level.

I'm kind of curious, what do you mean that it doesn't work, exactly?

exact33 wrote:

I still prefer Frances the Mute

That is a great album. I'm not exactly sure if it's my favorite. If you include the single "Frances the Mute" then it probably is. But I definitely go back and forth with that and Deloused. I think that their 4th album, Bedlam in Goliath, also is excellent and maybe a bit underrated. It is just as experimental as their earlier work but is filled with a ton of energy. Which is definitely a contrast with Frances, which is much more spacey.

The only album of theirs that I found disappointing is their last one, but I've even warmed up to that over the years.

Administrator Number of posts: 12392 Age: 41 Registration date: 2008-07-12

Tur-Thalion wrote:

S.D. wrote:

I admire their audacity and salute their influences...but this really doesn't work on any level.

I'm kind of curious, what do you mean that it doesn't work, exactly?

It sounds like a bunch of random stuff thrown together without any actual sense of a "song" anywhere. If it was an instrumental I'd probably find it more interesting, doesn't work as a vocal track though...at least not for me.

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The King Number of posts: 15608 Age: 38 Registration date: 2007-02-10

Tur-Thalion wrote:

S.D. wrote:

I admire their audacity and salute their influences...but this really doesn't work on any level.

I'm kind of curious, what do you mean that it doesn't work, exactly?

exact33 wrote:

I still prefer Frances the Mute

That is a great album. I'm not exactly sure if it's my favorite. If you include the single "Frances the Mute" then it probably is. But I definitely go back and forth with that and Deloused. I think that their 4th album, Bedlam in Goliath, also is excellent and maybe a bit underrated. It is just as experimental as their earlier work but is filled with a ton of energy. Which is definitely a contrast with Frances, which is much more spacey.

The only album of theirs that I found disappointing is their last one, but I've even warmed up to that over the years.

Deloused was very good too.

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