- Format: 3x 12 "LP
- Condition: New, OVP
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Label: Clouds Hill
- Year of publication: 2022
- Special features: Limited Colored Vinyl, LP 3 Page B is unused
Frances the Mute is the second studio album of the American progressive rock band The Mars Volta from El Paso/Texas. The Classic Rock Magazine describes the album as one of the 10 most important progressive rock albums of the decade.
Reviews
D. Plauk in MusikExpress 3/05: "Frances the Mute" costs strength - less in understandable moments such as the almost meek "The Widow", the strange Santanaesken "L'In Via L'Itquez" and the wonderful, so harmoniously elaborated and abruptly blurring acoustic frame number "sarcophagi"; More in nerve-wracking sections such as the brutal "Umbilical Syllables", the exploiting improvisational "Cassandra Gemini" and the nightmahr "Miranda that ghost just Isn't Holy Any Any more", in the middle of which the Mariachi trumpets are not blowing into the lavish, as if they wanted to be recognized for a short clear moment, as after the Mars Volta come to the artistic approach of the FreeJazz when it comes to the basic renewal of Prog-Rock: their music is limited, but not excessive. Brave instead of cocky. Insenting, if not overwhelming radical, but always far from artistic anarchy. "
D. Vujanic in Stereoplay 4/05: "Music that almost exceeds the listener's attention volume and whose size is only gradually recorded. Hymns are lined up by salsbles, M metallic meets dub, superbe vocal harmonies rustle over syncopied punk rock: wow! "