The Mars Volta: Octahedron's Streaming On MySpace

The Mars Volta's fifth studio album, Octahedron, will be released June 23 by Warner Bros. Records. The record will be preceded by its first single, "Since We've Been Wrong."

Octahedron follows up last year's The Bedlam In Goliath, which featured "Wax Simulacra," the track that took "Best Hard Rock Performance" honors at the recent 51st Annual Grammy Awards.

Octahedron was written by The Mars Volta - Omar Rodriguez Lopez (music, arrangements, direction) and Cedric Bixler Zavala (vocals, lyrics) - and performed by The Mars Volta group: Marcel Rodriguez Lopez, Thomas Pridgen, John Frusciante, Isaiah Ikey Owens, Juan Alderete de la Pena, Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez Lopez.

Hailed by The New Yorker as "perhaps the most musically adventurous act currently signed to a major label," The Mars Volta formed in 2001. The band's recorded output includes the 2003 debut full length De-Loused In The Comatorium, as well as Frances The Mute (2005), Amputechture (2006) and the previously mentioned The Bedlam In Goliath (2008).

Listen to Octahedron on The Mars Volta's MySpace.

Comments

[zombie_brad]

Listening to this album. It's all right, but nothing too amazing.

[BK202]

Love the new Album!

[Quicksand15]

I'm excited how it will sound! I won't listen until it's out and I have my copy.

[SnareSG50]

i love the mars volta and everything, but this cd just doesn't do it for me. =/

[jplay5]

bedlam in goliath was fantastic. I don't know about this one.

[AlskiOverload]

Im surprised this didnt make the news earlier. I like it, its a cool change of direction, and hopefully they will surprise us again with something completely new again, and maybe this time not on a major label :P.

[tommytomtomtom]

ok. for those of you who dont like it yet, u need to listen to it alot more. i thought it was ok at first and too accessible, but i was wrong. this album is fantastic! perhaps look up the lyrics and listen along with it and u may change ur mind. these are some of the darkest lyrics yet. this album is truly amazing, u just hav to hav an open mind

[Scorge]

i'm kinda glad they slowed it down for this album and focused on keeping their ideas a little shorter and more polished and cohesive.....to make my point clear, how many times has anyone listened to the entire Cassandra Gemini? Miranda? for me it makes the listening experience more enjoyable and that's why i'm leaning on the opinion that this is kind of a spirited follow up to de-loused, not in content but in focus. i'm all for more of that but i have a gut feeling they're starting to get a little bored with the volta...banking on cedric speaking out about a ATDI reunion earlier this week.

[acshadow25]

it's a nice change, it grows on you. very unlike any of their other stuff, more accessible

[slypoonce]

album sounds great. it will at least hold me over while i pray for an ATDI reunion.

[Mr Pringle]

All of their albums are amazing and octahedron has to be my second favourite under Frances the Mute. I heard that they're going to play through Octahedron straight through on this tour which is ****ing awesome in my opinion.

[August_Burns]

Wtf are you guys talking about, this cd is amazing.