Get ready to learn some new words in at least two different languages! After giving us a decade to catch up with their boundary-pushing, genre-shifting, and altogether bizarre discography, The Mars Volta have announced their seventh album and first record since 2012’s Noctourniquet—their self-titled LP will arrive on September 16 in the wake of a massive reissue project for their older material as well as their recent singles “Blacklight Shine” and “Graveyard Love” and all the characteristically cryptic messages and visuals those tracks arrived with.
Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala are also sharing another new cut from the record today with the sensual “Vigil” arriving alongside a black-and-white visual eerily pairing Bixler-Zavala’s falsetto and ever-inscrutable lyrics (might be helpful to have...a medical dictionary on hand?) with the equally contrasting images of interpretive dancers and ominous shots of scorpions in the video’s opening. Check that out below, and pre-order the record here.
