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 | | It was the Mars Volta — the brainchild of big-haired and tight-pants-wearing duo Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez — whose punky, proggy sophomore release, Frances the Mute, had just astounded just about everyone in the music industry by selling more than 123,000 copies in just one week. |
 | | Which is a pretty amazing number when you consider that Frances is a five-song, 77-minute semi-concept record about death, rebirth, emptiness and longing; an album with trippy artwork and obscure lyrics that lacked a discernable single and featured a closing track that pushed the 30-minute mark. |
 | | And the spooky, goofy video for the tune, which Rodriguez-Lopez himself directed and which features gratuitous use of an evil ice-cream man, has begun to get major airplay, even though most people have no idea what it means, director included. |
| www.mtv.com /news/articles/1501513/05092005/mars_volta.jhtml (971 words) |
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