The Mars Volta "Francis The Mute"

by Nicholas James Von Pless, http://news.bbc.co.uk in , March 27, 2005

After releasing “De-loused in the Comatorium”, you have to wonder how The Mars Volta can follow up with an equal or better record, or just end up in a sophomore slump. With songs that kept us wanting more of Cedric Bixler’s soaring vocals and Omar Rodriguez’s excessive guitar arrangements, it...