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Octahedron is the fifth full-length studio album by American progressive rock band The Mars Volta, released on June 23, 2009.[2][3] The album was released by Warner Bros. Records in North America and Mercury Records worldwide. It debuted at #12 on the Billboard 200 Album chart with sales of 29,980 in its first week of release.[4] Regarding the release, vocalist Cedric Bixler Zavala states that the band "wanted to make the opposite of all the records we've done. All along we've threatened people that we'd make a pop record, and now we have."[5]
[edit] DevelopmentOmar Rodríguez-López was working on Octahedron at the same time as The Bedlam in Goliath, as is typical for Rodriguez to be working on two or three projects simultaneously. Yet as Bedlam turned into a "nightmare of a record to make" Rodriguez was unable to sustain both projects and devoted his attention on Bedlam. [6] Rodriguez had discussed the band's next album (then untitled) as early as January 2008, the month that The Bedlam in Goliath was released,[7][8] claiming "I consider it to be our acoustic album." Cedric Bixler-Zavala has also spoken of the album as "acoustic" and "mellow," yet stated: "We know how people can be so linear in their way of thinking, so when they hear the new album, they're going to say, 'This is not an acoustic album! There's electricity throughout it!' But it's our version. That's what our band does -- celebrate mutations. It's our version of what we consider an acoustic album."[9] The album was recorded in three weeks during the month of August 2008, in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to recording, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez asked both sound manipulator Paul Hinojos and saxophonist Adrián Terrazas-González to leave the band. The Mars Volta's official website states that both "did so amicably."[10] Similar to the band's third studio album, Amputechture, the album does not contain a single unifying narrative. Vocalist Cedric Bixler Zavala notes that the album is "not really" a concept album: "I thought it was going to be but never really got around to writing about anything in particular. Just a lot of instant song composing and regular themes that I wouldn't even want to elaborate on [...] kidnappings, vanishings, 'what if' scenarios about how to get Republicans out of the White House if they'd got in."[5] Rodriguez has stated that he believes Octahedron will be the final album he records in his typical "gun-in-your-face mentality" where he would give musicians their parts without giving them any knowledge of how they fit into the greater song [6]. [edit] PromotionOn April 22, 2009, the album's first single, "Cotopaxi," was played as the "hottest record in the world" for that day on the Zane Lowe BBC Radio One show.[11] An e-mail sent to people who had signed up to The Mars Volta's newsletter on May 16 confirmed details of the album and provided a link streaming four songs ("Since We've Been Wrong," "Cotopaxi," "With Twilight as My Guide," and "Desperate Graves") upon inserting one of the band's four previous studio albums into the disc tray of the user's computer. The promotion also provided a chance to win a pair of tickets to their show at the ICA, London on June 18[12] and a link to pre-order the digipack, limited edition of the album exclusive to HMV.[13] An interactive website was also launched, which featured "Since We've Been Wrong" and "Cotopaxi", as well as their lyrics, and several pictures of Rodriguez-Lopez and Bixler-Zavala.[14]. It was announced on the ORL website that the first 500 orders of the vinyl album would include a limited vinyl slipmat.[15] [edit] Track listing
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