The Mars Volta announce acoustic ‘self-titled’ album, share reworked ‘Blank Condolences’
nme.comThe Mars Volta have announced details of an acoustic reworking of their ‘self-titled’ 2022 comeback album – check out the stripped down ‘Blank Condolences’ below.The Texas-formed band released six studio albums between 2003 and 2012 before splitting due to a falling-out between founding members Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López.
In the years that followed, the pair formed new group Antemasque and resurrected their pre-Mars Volta outfit At-the-Drive-In for a new record in 2017.They reunited last year to release ‘The Mars Volta’ ahead of a US headline tour.The legendary prog band have now announced new record ‘Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon’, an acoustic reworking of that comeback album.
They’ve also shared the first taste from the reimagined record – check out ‘Blank Condolences (acoustic)’ below.The “folk record” was spearheaded by Rodríguez-López almost immediately after work had finished on ‘The Mars Volta’.“It was a fun process,” he said in a press release. “And it made me think about the history of record music in the United States.
There was ‘traditional music’, which became ‘Americana’, or country music. And the other genre was ‘race music’, which was exactly what it sounds like: music made by anyone who was an ‘immigrant’, mostly meaning black people.
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