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The Mars Volta announce first album since 2012
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 8 August 2022
The Mars Volta have announced that they will release their first album for more than a decade next month.
When it was released in 2012, the band’s sixth album – ‘Noctourniquet’ – received mixed although generally positive reviews, but did not match the commercial success of earlier releases. After touring that album, guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López announced that the band had gone on hiatus while, at the beginning of 2013, vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala said that they had broken up.
Both Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala have been hinting at a reunion for several years now, but it wasn’t until June this year that they revealed new music – initially as part of an art installation that appeared in Grand Park in Los Angeles, where they unveiled a portion of their first reunion single ‘Blacklight Shine’.
A second single, ‘Graveyard Love’, followed, and now with the announcement of the album – to be titled ‘The Mars Volta’ – comes a third, ‘Vigil’. All three singles are accompanied by videos directed by Rodríguez-López that aim to “depict the beauty of life in Puerto Rico and rail against US colonial rule”.
‘The Mars Volta’ is set for release on 16 Sep. Watch the video for ‘Vigil’ here:
