Records Of The Year 2005 No.4 - The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

Abso progging lovely! Cedric and Omar follow up Relationship and Deloused with another brilliant album. The first song is the least good song on the album and it just keeps getting better. I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t one long song as I’d heard through the grapevine that it was. Although the sheer quality of the music more than makes up for that. The highlight of the album for me has to be the last bit from track 6 onwards when all the tracks blend in to one long sequence of genius.