Octahedron Tracklist
Octahedron is the fifth studio album from American progressive rock band, The Mars Volta. The album is named after a shape that has 8 faces, which can be seen on the lower right side of the cover. Conveniently, the album also has 8 tracks to further emphasize the 8 faced shape.
“Octahedron” Q&A
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What have the artists said about the album?
In an interview with Drowned In Sound published on June 08, 2009, Cedric Bixler-Zavala talked about the album:
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Obviously the first thing to bring up, is that having listened to Octahedron a few times, it’s clearly a pretty big departure from Bedlam. Lighter, more straightforward, more commercial. What’s the idea behind the record?
We wanted to make the opposite of all the records we’ve done. All along we’ve threatened people that we’d make a pop record, and now we have.
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Something deliberately more accessible?
Well, just for us really. The first song was something that was meant to end up on [The] Bedlam [In Goliath], but I guess it didn’t fit. What we wanted to make was an acoustic album. So this is our version of that, but obviously not sticking to the rules. It’s always good to get rid of one audience to gain another. The old audience always knows what to expect. And I’m sure whatever audience comes from this album, we’ll disappoint them with the next record.
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What have the artists said about the album?
Omar Rodríguez-López:
This one didn’t have multi-layered sub-texts or any sinister spirits. Octahedron was like an expression of will into reality. Like, ‘This one will be easy, this one will be fun’. Everything had a different process.
—via Press Release
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What have the artists said about the album?
Cedric Bixler-Zavala:
Octahedron was a rebellion. Us saying, ‘This isn’t like anything we’ve done before. This is our “pop” album.’ We’d always promised we’d do a ‘pop’ album.‘ This was it.
—via Press Release
