Recently, The Mars Volta released their seventh studio album. This highly anticipated album was their first release in ten years. The Mars Volta’s 14 songs fearlessly go against everything you thought you knew about them. It produces some of their most thrilling, approachable, and complex music.
The band enlisted Eva Gardner, who played bass on the band’s debut album. With her booming tone and sophisticated bass patterns, Gardner’s bass dominates the entire record.
This new The Mars Volta album showcases guitarist and composer Omar Rodriguez-López and vocalist and songwriter Cedric Bixler-Zavala. This record is their most developed, clear-cut, and intense, channeling their sound and rage to a maximum effect. As the band noted in interviews that this record signifies a change in their sound. According to Bixler-Zavala, “I wanted to do something else,” he told the Times. He continues, “The most intriguing new trend, in my opinion, is to simplify things and create our own brand of pop.”
The album is physically available on CD and vinyl, with Clouds Hill holding an exclusive, kinetic edition of the vinyl, which can be bought HERE. The album is also available in LP, CD, and cassette, paired with a unique, gold foiled outer cover with embossed art.
The Mars Volta is in the middle of its first live tour in ten years. Due to the extreme demand and the fact that many of the shows have already sold out, dates have been added in a few towns.
The Mars Volta Tour Dates
September 22 – Dallas, TX
September 23 – Dallas, TX – SOLD OUT
September 25 – Atlanta, GA – SOLD OUT
September 27 – Philadelphia, PA
September 29 – New York, NY – SOLD OUT
September 30 – New York, NY – SOLD OUT
October 1 – Boston, MA
October 3 – Washington, DC
October 5 – Toronto, ON
October 6 – Detroit, MI – SOLD OUT
October 8 – Chicago, IL – SOLD OUT
October 9 – Milwaukee, WI – ADDED SHOW
October 11 – Denver, CO – SOLD OUT
October 14 – Seattle, WA – SOLD OUT
October 15 – Seattle, WA – SOLD OUT
October 18 – San Francisco, CA – SOLD OUT
October 19 – San Francisco, CA
October 21 – Los Angeles, CA – SOLD OUT
October 22 – Los Angeles, CA – SOLD OUT
October 23 – Los Angeles, CA – SOLD OUT
November 5 – Mexico City, Mexico
