The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute (New Vinyl)

NEW TRIPLE LP (SIDE 6 IS ETCHED)

New sealed copy. 2021 remastered reissue on heavyweight black vinyl. Artwork etched in to side F/6. Trifold gatefold jacket.

Please note that all sides end in locked grooves, meant to keep the album's segues and "Cassandra Gemini" intact. This is not a defect.

Frances the Mute is the second studio album by American progressive rock band The Mars Volta released in February 2005 on Gold Standard Laboratories and Universal. Produced by guitarist and songwriter Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, the album incorporates dub, ambient, Latin and jazz influences, and is the first to feature bassist Juan Alderete and percussionist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez. The album also includes contributions from future saxophonist Adrián Terrazas-González, who joined the band during its subsequent tour.

Frances the Mute album made multiple "Best of" lists at the end of 2005. In the Q & Mojo magazine Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #18 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums" and was also named as one of Classic Rock magazine's 10 essential progressive rock albums of the decade.

TRACKLIST:

Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus
A1.a Sarcophagi
A1.b Umbilical Syllables
A1.c Facilis Descenus Averni
A1.d Con Safo
A2 The Widow 
B L'Via L'Viaquez 

Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore
C1.a Vade Mecum
C1.b Pour Another Icepick
C1.c Pisacis (Phra-Men-Ma)
C1.d Con Safo

Cassandra Gemini
D1.a Tarantism
D1.b Plant A Nail In The Navel Stream
D1.c Faminepulse
E1.a Faminepulse (Continued)
E1.b Multiple Spouse Wounds
E1.c Sarcophagi