4/3/2023 0 Comments Mars volta luciform lyrics![]() ![]() With Twilight As My Guide has hints of fantasy/medievalism, while Rodriguez-Lopez's guitar recreates the seagull squawks of David Gilmour. ![]() Since We've been Wrong is a strangely close cousin to Metallica's Nothing Else Matters, albeit far more musically accomplished. Playful sonic trickery? (the barely audible extended intro to Since We've Been Wrong) Check. Worryingly garish sleeve art featuring sixth form surrealism? Check (though, thankfully, they've replaced the bafflingly popular kitsch of Hipgnosis' Storm Thorgerson with the work of painter Jeff Jordan). Of course when talking of the work of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Bixler-Zavala it's always necessary to tick off the prog tropes: Impenetrably, vocabulary-wideningly cryptic lyrics? Check. Unlike their classic work such as Drunkship Of Lanterns (from De-Loused In The Comatorium) or Francis The Mute's two multi-part suites, this is slightly more subdued fare, with the more ambient moments allowed to hang in the air for extended periods (cf: the segue between Copernicus and Luciforms). While the album doesn't come close to vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala's description of it as 'acoustic' you do see what he's getting at. The fifth studio album by America's premier nu-prog exponents may not, as predicted, see them exactly 'mellow out', but it certainly sees them rein in their more histrionic tendencies. ![]()
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