View basket “Frances The Mute” has been added to your basket. Frances The Mute – RSD Stores Exclusive Mars Volta, The SKU: 4250795604921 Barcode: 4250795604921 40.00 £40.00 Genre: Progressive Label: Clouds Hill Released Date: 17th December 2021 Buying Format: 3LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info ***RSD Stores Exclusive Red Vinyl*** Frances The Mute was no De-Loused Part Two. For one thing, the band’s configuration had changed, in the most painful way. Shortly before the release of De- Loused, sound manipulator and founder member Jeremy Michael Ward passed away, a wound Omar says the group never recovered from. But even though his inspired fucking- with-the-sonic-parameters is absent from Frances The Mute, his spirit and influence can still be determined, the album’s concept derived from a diary Ward had encountered in his day-job in repossession. “Jeremy picked up lots of interesting stuff when he was a repo man,” remembers Cedric. “Weird things, including this diary, He let us read it a bunch of times. It was by a guy who’d been adopted and was searching to find his real parents. It was very surreal, it didn’t make much sense – the guy might’ve been schizophrenic – but it was very inspiring. It felt like how certain music helps you escape your boring every-day life. The names and scenes in the diary directly inspired these songs.” Some of the tracks pre-dated De-Loused, having their origins in early demos Omar recorded at the duo’s Long Beach home Anikulapo, songs such as The Widow and Miranda The Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore. Cedric had heard these jams in their embryonic state and began working in his mind on what he could bring to them. “I was attracted to The Widow like you would be to a lover, right?” Cedric remembers. “I sang over it with Omar while we were touring De-Loused in Australia on the Big Day Out, like, ‘Okay, I’ve got something for this. The album’s fevered intensity infected even the staid string section, Cedric remembers. “When they performed the part on Cassandra Gemini, ’25 wives in the lake tonight’, one of the guys in the orchestra played so hard he broke his bow, this real old, antique bow. And you could see his ‘classical’ side come out – like, ‘I broke this playing a fuckin’ rock song??’ He was pissed off. But I was like, ‘Fuck yeah, man, that’s on the record! You’ve got to realise things like that are cool.’” The album also features field recordings of “the coqui of Puerto Rico” during the opening minutes of Miranda That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore. “We took a page out of the Grateful Dead’s book there,” laughs Cedric. “They recorded air. We recorded fuckin’ frogs in Puerto Rico.” Artist Mars Volta, The Genre Progressive Label Clouds Hill Buying Options 3LP Coloured Vinyl Format 3LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus Sarcophagi Umbilical Syllables Facilis Descenus Averni Con Safo The Widow L'Via L'Viaquez Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore Vade Mecum Pour Another Icepick Pisacis (Phra-Men-Ma) Con Safo Cassandra Gemini Tarantism Plant A Nail In The Navel Stream Faminepulse Faminepulse (Continued) Multiple Spouse Wounds Sarcophagi Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Mars Volta, The Nearly New View Product Quick View Mars Volta, The De-Loused In The Comatorium Progressive | Gold Standard Laboratories | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 16th October 2023 £120.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Mars Volta, The De-Loused In The Comatorium £120.00 Genre: Progressive Label: Gold Standard Laboratories SKU: nn274251 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 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