THE BAND’S FIRST ALBUM IN A DECADE IS OUT NOW.

The Mars Volta have released a new video for their track ‘Flash Burns From Flashbacks’, a further visual chapter to accompany the recently released self-titled album ‘The Mars Volta’, the band’s seventh record and first in a decade. It pulses with subtle brilliance, Caribbean rhythms underpinning sophisticated, turbulent song craft. The 14 tracks bravely challenge everything you thought you knew about The Mars Volta, delivering their most exciting, most accessible, and most sophisticated music yet. It shakes loose the band’s long-standing shibboleths – the dizzying, abrasive prog stylings of earlier albums absent. This is guitarist/composer Omar Rodríguez-López and singer/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala at their most mature, most concise, most focused. Their sound and fury channeled to greatest effect. A shift in sound. A pop album. Ahead of the album’s release, the band released the singles and short films for ‘Blacklight Shine’ and ‘Graveyard Love’. The short films, directed by Rodríguez-López depict the beauty of life in Puerto Rico and rail against U.S. colonial rule. ‘Vigil’ followed with a music video released early August. “This is a heavy record. It’s therapy”, adds Bixler-Zavala. “I’m lucky enough to have someone like Omar in my life, to spearhead that and make it all happen. His patience and tenacity are so key to all this. I’m constantly in awe of how he does things”.