The Mars Volta have never been ones for writing songs about dancing at the disco or falling in love with a girl at the rock show - and for that may we all be truly thankful. But according to a recent interview, the lyrics on forthcoming The Mars Volta album, The Bedlam In Goliath, feature a number of messages received through a kind of ouija board.
In the words of frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala:
“It serves the same function as a Ouija board but it’s just a little more archaic… This version of it had a sort of love triangle that was attached to it - the poems we found with it sort of described a mother-daughter-and-other-man love triangle, and what I came up with from it was we were being contacted by at least three people on the board that would come up as one person.
“We wrote down a lot of messages they gave us, and we used it in the lyrics and we also tried to fasten the lyrics into sort of like a good luck charm, by putting positive elements into it.”
It’s never fun to have to apply a cynical viewpoint on the utterances of bands we really respect … but even so, that sounds a little too weird to be true, even coming from The Mars Volta. Still, spirits or not, The Bedlam In Goliath is sure to be a stonker - we’ll be looking forward to its arrival at The Dreaded Press. [Story via NME.com] [Picture sourced via Wikipedia, used under fair use - original copyright Ross Halfin]
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