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- Summary: The debut album for the Mars Volta guitarist.
- Record Label: Stones Throw
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental
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Old Money is so far-reaching, it will likely piss off some of his fans while making others nearly swoon with its unwieldy rockist excesses. As for winning new fans to his cause? You bet.
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Nary a fragment of the 10 compositions sounds even a bit out of place; new ideas are explored, and not at the expense of the listener; and, perhaps best of all, a mongrel of a talent finally lets his instincts to ROCK REALLY FUCKING HARD take over.
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Alternative PressThis disc is heads-and-shoulders above his contemporaries. [Mar 2009, p.116]
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This album is truly an odyssey where if a picture paints only a thousand words, these songs can paint an entire film.
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It's just as easy to loathe this record as it is to love it, but enough moments of merit exist to stifle any doubts over the quality of Rodriguez-Lopez' output as a solo artist.
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Under The RadarOld Money is as trippy and fantastical as Rodriguez Lopez's work with Mars Volta without the beat-you-over-the-head prog fury and yelped vocals intensity that causes much of Volta's music to bend under its own pretentious weight. [Winter 2009, p.77]
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Q MagazineOnce again it's a showcase for some dextrous prog-jazz metal guitar work that on occasion veers dangerously close to tuneless skronking. [Mar 2009, p.104]
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