Octahedron 2LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_CR00289 is a nod to the

is a nod to the Southern California city where Anderson grew up

“The dolphin is one of the most intelligent creatures ever created on whatever planet we're on

and the existential dread that often accompanies that unknowing

Edmund Hall

and she definitely did shape me as a human being

Octahedron 2LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_CR00289 is a nod to theEach of the Mars Volta albums that preceded Octahedron had pushed the envelope further, their music growing larger, more intense, more complex. Each had delivered an implied, unspoken challenge to its makers within milliseconds of its final notes: top this. And with each subsequent album, Omar and Cedric had turned their creative dials up one more notch, a further step past eleven. With the addition of new drummer Thomas Pridgen, and their ranks