I found The Mars Volta while looking for new music on the Internet. Unfortunately, this band is extremely hard to share with other people, as their Rock music is very alternative. It’s so alternative that I have to listen to their albums a few dozen times until I can get the structure of the songs and enjoy them. Why do I even give them a chance, you ask? Because even in the first time you listen to the album you can tell that it’s the work of extremely talented people, and you get hooked by the parts of it that are easier on the ears.
Here’s a quote from the review of their new album, called Amputechture, by The Rolling Stone magazine. It pretty much sums it up:
The long version: Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez dissolved At the Drive-In, the most promising punk-rock band of the late Nineties, then formed a sprawling progressive-rock ensemble that recorded two albums composed of frenetic multipart suites at a time when doing so amounted to commercial suicide. The short version: The Mars Volta got away with murder.