Release Date: 30 January 2026
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Clouds Hill
£29.99
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet Limited Gatefold Vinyl 2LP + Poster & 3D Glasses Set
Overview:
Noctourniquet And then everything went black, at least for a while, at least for The Mars Volta. In the months and years following their fifth full-length, Octahedron, Omar kept on at his usual fearsome creative pace. In fact, he ramped up his output considerably, starting up his own Rodriguez Lopez Productions label and releasing a slew of solo albums. It was a practice he’d begun shortly after De-Loused’s release, with his solo debut A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One, but as the decade reached its close, Omar grew to rely upon his solo recordings as an outlet for his prolific creativity, these albums often exploring musical pastures far beyond even The Mars Volta’s wide-ranging parameters. Before choosing to release music under his own name, Omar would always play it to Cedric first, to see if the frontman thought it had potential to become Mars Volta music. Shortly after Octahedron’s completion, Cedric flagged one batch of tracks Omar had cut with Deantoni Parks, a brilliant drummer and composer who’d briefly occupied the Mars Volta drumstool in-between Jon Theodore and Thomas Pridgen’s tenures, and whose volcanic creativity and unique, unpredictable approach to rhythm and composition had quickly made him one of Omar’s favourite artistic foils. As with the music that made up Octahedron, the new tracks Cedric had optioned for The Mars Volta often veered far from the riotous, Grand Guignol visions of their earlier releases. It possessed the punchy, song-based focus of Octahedron, though this was a considerably darker, more menacing strain of pop, with synthesisers figuring heavily in the productions.
Featured Tracks:
Side A
1. The Whip Hand
2. Aegis
3. Dyslexicon
Side B
1. Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound
2. The Malkin Jewel
3. Lapochka
Side C
1. In Absentia
2. Imago
3. Molochwalker
4. Trinkets Pale Of Moon
Side D
1. Vedamalady
2. Noctourniquet
3. Zed And Two Naughts
Release Date: 11 April 2025
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Clouds Hill
£29.99
Release Date: 29 November 2024
Format: EP Vinyl
Label: Clouds Hill
£16.99
Release Date: 29 November 2024
Format: LP Triple Vinyl
Label: Clouds Hill
£29.99
Release Date: 29 November 2024
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Cloud Hill
£29.99
