The El Paso, Texas-Duo, you know who, comes with a veritable surprise around the corner.

That The Mars Volta had ausgenudelt at the end and a final stroke had to be drawn, okay. No real secret that the recent publications not come close to the power and finesse of the first. Play that the dynamic duo Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala age, would give way to stoic ask and tangible temptations someday and At The Drive-In reunion festival shows, that was in sight somehow. But what was not in sight, this is.

The post-hardcore legends-In Drive the experimental psych-rock monster The Mars Volta made after the genre milestone relationship of command from At The (and the rest of the the time concerning not permanently on duty Emo outfit Sparta) would have certainly have expected a lot. But wide-legged pathos-prog rock? Full hymns, concise melody runs, '80s glam rock moments and masculine pathos, pathos, pathos?

They wanted his ears do not trust in the first passages (the album was released in the summer in the States and has long been streamable). To dissect Now the album in its entirety, can still shake their heads: the drumming is old school punk rock; the riffs actually Cowboy Pants Prog to Classic Rock and on Mr. Underground, Omar Rodríguez-López; the song Who would have ever thought possible with Cedric Bixler-Zavala wide-legged, masculine emotion, geschrieener to heaven exuberance. Héroes del Silencio send their regards. A reference from which I had not believed to be able to install it.

The formation conditions can hear: the opener, 4AM, was the first musical testimony of this project. It is their best song. One of rock riffs of the year. The internal resonance so good that it was decided from the Jam out to venture an album. On bass in the studio, as it was in Mars Volta times again Flea from the Chili Peppers. Antemasques debut begins as an irresistible feeling storm and falls in the second half of the album from clear only the Closer Rome Armed To The Teeth tear it out again. Had the whole album like the first four songs and Closer, we would have a real rock monument. But for a successful new beginning again the dynamic duo, the band members continue to die off prematurely (Isaiah Ikey Owens recently as tour keyboardist Jack Whites), it was good enough. Nice that the double name Dudes can still surprise us.

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