The Mars Volta – Fat Bob shot with Leica M10
The Mars Volta recently released their first album in a decade.
The Mars Volta have premiered the official video for Flash Burns From Flashbacks, taken from last month’s self-titled studio LP.
“Vigil, with its skittering MPC beats, cosmic sounding organ and general air of radio (very) friendliness found them occupying the space once taken up by MGMT whilst Graveyard Love, if you listened in a certain mood, could be easily construed as soul,” our review reads. “And so the thought struck – did we now have El Paso’s answer to Hall and Oates on our hands?”
“Well no, of course not, although the duo have mischievously steered critics in the direction of yacht rock as a guide to their current identity, but a darker story lurks beneath the surface, in which Bixler-Zavala joined the Church of Scientology, a step which would ultimately lead to Rodríguez-López’s original decision to call time on their partnership.”
“The strain of that and his gradually deteriorating relationship with the cult – one which has turned into litigation – provides definite lyrical stimulus, with references such as, on Flash Burns From Flashbacks, ‘A courtroom sketch of lifeless eyes’, to Cerulea’s, ‘I’ll find my moment/To fall apart’.”
