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The Bedlam In Goliath - The Mars Volta
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66 out of 100

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8.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 126 Ratings

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  • Summary: Band members claim their fourth studio album was influenced by people they contacted through a Ouija board.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 31
  3. Negative: 4 out of 31
  1. Alternative Press
    100
    The Mars Volta have created the first great record of 2008. [Mar 2008, p.145]
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  2. Q Magazine
    60
    There's greater scope here [more] than ever before, with the gentle llyena providing space before Cavaletta's riot of detuned radios, car alarms and struggling internet connections. [Feb 2008, p.99]
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  3. Delusions of Adequacy
    30
    The Bedlam in Goliath is an exhausting listen and it seems like the guys have tried to pack in as many prog-rock clichés as possible.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 50
  3. Negative: 3 out of 50
  1. Vampire25
    10
    The Bedlam In Goliath takes me back to The Mars Volta's first album, De-loused In The Comatorium. More rock, less ambient. The opener Aberinkula, right off the bat, just starts out hard. Goliath, Wax Simulacra, and Ilyena are all great tracks. All In All, The Bedlam In Goliath is in my top three favorite Mars Volta albums. A-… Expand
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  2. OllieH
    5
    I used to be a huge Mars Volta fan. They were building an amazing sound album after album, and I think Amputecture was their best album yet, but this sounds like a pile of sonic mush. None of the songs are memorable at all and they have lost the element of progression and suspense that their previous albums had.… Expand
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  3. IsaacA.
    3
    This album is just a mess of potentially great, but ultimately wasted, ideas.
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