The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute Vol on John Felice's days with

on John Felice's days with The Modern Lovers

almost reverently

In front of them

Remastered from the original tapes

wafting vocals that veer between sombre and sweet

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute Vol on John Felice's days withFrances The Mute was no De Loused Part Two. For one thing, the bands configuration had changed, in the most painful way. Shortly before the release of De Loused, sound manipulator and founder member Jeremy Michael Ward passed away, a wound Omar says the group never recovered from. But even though his inspired fucking with the sonic parameters is absent from Frances The Mute, his spirit and influence can still be determined, the albums concept derived