#amputechture

none of this is gonna be that interesting, probably. i don't know shit about music and their writing is very very rich. If it's not one of their concept albums, I can only really guess at the meaning behind things based on vibes and listening to songs enough times for my brain to catch up. anyway, I'm listening to Amputechture for the first time and there's a bit near the end of "Day of the Baphomets" where someone goes absolutely wild on some bongos or a djembe or something and it makes me wanna break stuff every time i hear it

I've been doing tiny chunks of this cover of The Mars Volta's "Tetragrammaton" for months now. There is....so much to dissect here. So many layers of evil guitar. So much wailing. And I tasked myself with trying to make it make sense for an orchestra.

While I may have expressed a certain fondness for early Mars Volta records, that sympathy doesn’t extend to the rest of the band’s catalogue. At one point, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala entirely lost me; not just unenjoyable but lengthily so, Mars Volta records lost all impact. These releases can only justify themselves with exceptional amounts of lore and extended reading – all of which perhaps indicates that the music itself says very little. 

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