Omar Rodriguez Lopez is the mastermind behind one of my favorite bands, The Mars Volta. He also has a side project, currently called “El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez” (the new group of Omar Rodriguez Lopez), which already has over 5 LPs under its belt. You can listen to all of them free of charge here. These albums are very diverse in sound but definitely have all the great elements you can expect from a The Mars Volta album along with very hard-to-digest parts that take a few listens to get used to.
I’m currently listening to the last album, Cryptomnesia (player embedded below), and I love it. I’ll probably get the earlier ones as well as soon as I move to my new apartment. I like owning CDs even when there’s a digital download option.