The Mars Volta "Octahedron" DeeCracks any pain I may have

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Loathe pepper their music with a range of influences and musical motifs that move fluidly and give the Liverpool quintet a dynamism that was merely hinted at before

This album pays tribute to both Tim Burton's cinematographic work and Danny Elfman's musical genius

and Patrick Wilson (drums)-has sold over nine million albums in the U

featuring the hit song "Not Sleeping Around" and produced by renowned producer Andy Wallace

The Mars Volta "Octahedron" DeeCracks any pain I may haveEach of the Mars Volta albums that preceded Octahedron had pushed the envelope further, their music growing larger, more intense, more complex. Each had delivered an implied, unspoken challenge to its makers within milliseconds of its final notes: top this. And with each subsequent album, Omar and Cedric had turned their creative dials up one more notch, a further step past eleven. With the addition of new drummer Thomas Pridgen, and their ranks