THE MARS VOLTA 'NOCTOURNIQUET' LP - CURACAO TRANSPARENT/BLUE TRANSPARENT Polyphia

THE MARS VOLTA 'NOCTOURNIQUET' LP - CURACAO TRANSPARENT/BLUE TRANSPARENT PolyphiaLABEL: Clouds Hill VINYL RELEASE DATE: 4 15 2022 ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 3 26 2012 VARIANT: Curacao Transparent & Blue Transparent Vinyl LP The Mars Volta returns in epic and unexpected fashion with its sixth album, Noctourniquet. While Noctourniquet was, in typical Mars Volta fashion, written by Omar Rodriguez Lopez and Cedric Bixler Zavala and produced by Rodriguez Lopez, the 13 track album explores musical territories previously uncharted in the duo's

"The Changeling Prince"

With a reputation established by such seminal bands as Adolescents and Uniform Choice decades ago

Arriving between their first two records

Artwork hand painted by Thomas Hooper

Haunting Pools 08

Noisey and fellow musicians like Kirk Hammett of Metallica

In Los Angeles

coming out in 1969

Girls to the Front is the epic

“We started writing this record two weeks after my son was born

Red Water (Christmas Mourning)

but it's also got some good hooks