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| | Frances the Mute | Music Review | Entertainment Weekly |
 | | They'd vehemently deny it, but the Mars Volta (led by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala, formerly of the post-hardcore experimentalists At the Drive-In) are arguably the first credible punk-prog unit. |
 | | Their sophomore album, Frances the Mute, is a 77-minute song cycle that hopscotches between electro-salsa, Zeppelin-style gut punches, 20-minute fandangos, and free jazz (imagine a mash-up of King Crimson, Tito Puente, Pharoah Sanders, and Fugazi). |
 | | As if the music itself weren't challenging enough, there's the ''concept'': Frances is based on a diary that a late bandmate found in the back of a car. |
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