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Zach Vowell reports:
Admit it, when you first popped in Tremulant, you started to wonder how a band with such deep post-punk roots could be drifting towards the ruins on which punk rock built its reputation: prog. Well, if a tracklist can tell us anything (and I think we all know it can), The Mars Volta's upcoming LP, Frances the Mute, will see the band veer ever farther toward those rocky prog shores. The band's major label, Universal Records, has yet to confirm a release date for the album, but their indie affiliate, Gold Standard Laboratories, has been kind enough to announce the vinyl release of Frances the Mute on March 22nd, 2005. This version will be a triple "split-colored" vinyl, and with the way these things usually go, it's probably reasonable to expect the CD release sometime earlier than the vinyl release.
The Mars Volta has experienced some unfortunate turnover since the release of 2003's De-Loused in the Comatorium-- holdover members include founders Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler Zavala, as well as Jon Theodore on drums and Ikey Owens on keyboards. Joining the band in the wake of the untimely death of sound effects man Jeremy Michael Ward in 2003 will be new band members Juan Alderete on bass and Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez on percussion. The strange, polarizing artwork of Storm Thorgerson will likewise once again grace the cover of Frances the Mute.
 
According to several of the band's fansites, the album will be 77 minutes long with the added bonus (headache?) of being completely seamless. Concept album, you ask? Seems a safe bet. And while rumors abound as to who will show up as guest musicians on Frances (we're looking at you, John Frusciante), the trusty Internet seems only to confirm that longtime salsa pianist Larry Harlow had his hand in making the album. So. We say prog, we say concept... how's about you just check the tracklist for yourself. You'll notice a generous helping of movements with Latin titles. That's right, we said movements, as in separate sections of a longer composition. Like, say, on Genesis' Foxtrot. Or Rush's Caress of Steel. Or, um, Yes. Take a look:
 
01 Vismund Cygnus
a) Sarcophagi
b) Umbilical Syllables
c) Facilis Descenus Averni
d) Con Safo
 
02 The Widow
 
03 L'Via L'Viaquez
 
04 Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore
a) Vade Mecum
b) Pour Another Icepick
c) Pisacis (Phra-Men-Ma)
d) Con Safo
 
05 Cassandra Gemini
a) Tarantism
b) Plant a Nail in the Navel Stream
c) Faminepule
d) Multiple Spouse Wounds
e) Sarcophagi
 
The mysteries of the album, which will undoubtedly by myriad, will hopefully be somewhat alleviated by the lyric book which will reportedly be enclosed with Frances the Mute. You may want to brush up on your Spanish though, as several reports claim that some of the lyrics will unsurprisingly be bilingual. The first single will likely be "The Widow", which has been played at the band's recent shows in Los Angeles, and doesn't have four parts. And as far as those afro-bouncin', guitar-smashin' live acts are concerned, the band has scheduled a rather extensive European tour leading up to the release of the new album. We can pretty much guarantee Omar will not be mute on these nights:
 
02-22 Brussels, Belgium - AB Club
02-23 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
02-24 Hamburg, Germany - Docks
02-26 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
02-27 Stockholm, Sweden - Berns
03-01 Berlin, Germany - Huxleys
03-03 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
03-04 Munich, Germany - Muffatahahe
03-06 Milan, Italy - Rolling Stone
03-07 Zurich, Switzerland - Rohstofflager
03-09 Birmingham, England - Birmingham Academy
03-11 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands
03-12 Manchester, England - Manchester Academy
03-13 London, England - Brixton Academy
03-15 Paris, France - Le Trabendo