It is The Mars Volta, everyone — they’re again they usually’re shining. When the bongos let rip on the begin of their first new single in a decade, you are in for a blast. The music is known as “Blacklight Shine.”
It emerged early Tuesday (June 21) after The Mars Volta, the post-hardcore prog-rock band led by former On the Drive-In members Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, spent the previous two days teasing their return with an artwork set up in Los Angeles.
Hear “Blacklight Shine” close to the underside of this put up.
The brand new tune is The Mars Volta’s first studio materials since 2012’s Noctourniquet and their subsequent breakup. The monitor is a Latin-influenced, percussion-heavy, nearly Chicago-like jam that finds singer Bixler-Zavala dipping into Spanish. It has an accompanying quick movie as a music video. (Watch it under.)
Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Rodriguez-Lopez fashioned The Mars Volta after On the Drive-In broke up in 2001. On the Drive-In bandmate Jim Ward fashioned Sparta. The Mars Volta then launched six studio albums, starting with 2003’s De-Loused within the Comatorium, which options Crimson Scorching Chili Peppers’ Flea on bass guitar. (The Mars Volta are pictured above within the De-Loused period.) On the Drive-In briefly reunited in 2011 and 2016. Bixler-Zavala and Rodriguez-Lopez moonlighted as a storage rock group referred to as Antemasque in 2014.
In 2019, Bixler-Zavala tweeted a couple of Mars Volta reunion, “What it is NOT going to be is your ‘fav member lineup’ taking part in their ‘traditional information’ in full and so forth. Perhaps we’ll play previous shit, who is aware of how we really feel.” (Nevertheless, the tweets have been faraway from Twitter.)
He continued, “Our previous campaigns by no means relied on taking part in requests or going totally backwards. … It is new shit, new folks, left turns, tangent inconsistencies, mazapan goals and churro needs.”
The singer added, “I’ll say this although, when [Rodriguez-Lopez] performed me a grip of recent shit I fucking cried. Like Claire Daines [sic] in Romeo + Juliet cried. Yeah, it was fucking bizarre. It is in its infancy proper now. No deadlines, no ball tripping, no drama, simply two grown-ass males utilizing important oils and daring new perfumes, capturing concepts and scooting their ass throughout the fucking garden attempting to eliminate these worms.”
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