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Universal acclaim- based on 153 Ratings
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Positive: 133 out of 153
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Mixed: 12 out of 153
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Negative: 8 out of 153
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SethCFeb 2, 2008
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GlenH.Mar 8, 2008
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EinarJ.Apr 10, 2008The album isn't bad, and is great music, but, to be frank, it is just not appealing. They seem to be starved of their previous creativity and it's by no means immense. 'Ilyena' is quite amazing though.
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AidanKFeb 16, 2008I found this record really disapointing, the tracks seem to sound very similar to one another, which is reall yquite surprising for this band. I think their first two albums are much better,
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HCFeb 20, 2008Like Muse, you can only take it in bursts. But since the songs are like 7 minutes long, it's almost no good at all.
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JAFeb 27, 2008Someone call Rick Ruben to save TMV from Fusion of confusion.
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OllieHFeb 13, 2008I 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.
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Sep 6, 2010
Awards & Rankings
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This should have been the album where the Mars Volta either wore the formula down to nothing or abruptly turned in a different direction, but instead the band created an album that nearly perfects what they've been working toward.
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Most of the time, however, the band makes a righteous racket that straddles the worlds of prog rock, funk, fusion jazz and world music, with Eastern motifs spicing 'Aberinkula' and a bit of cosmic blues making its way into 'Conjugal Burns.'
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For the most part, this is the heaviest record that they’ve recorded and the most far-out as well.