The Mars Volta Announce First Album in a Decade, Share New Song

It’s official: The Mars Volta have announced their first new album in a decade. The self-titled LP is due September 16. The Mars Volta are also releasing a new song called ‘Vigil’ today to celebrate the news. Check it out below.The Mars Volta is 14 tracks long and includes the previously released singles ‘Blacklight Shine’ and ‘Graveyard Love.’ Like those two songs, ‘Vigil’ is a brisk number that’s far away from their prog-rock heyday, clocking in around three minutes. A press release states that the new album has only two tracks that are longer than four minutes and that the new record finds guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala at ‘their most mature, most concise, most focused.

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