The follow-up to last year’s The Bedlam In Goliath, Octahedron is due out June 23 on Warner Bros. Records (North America) and June 22nd on Mercury Records (Rest of the World). Universal Records took so long to release The Bedlam In Goliath that in the downtime, the group was able to write and record another album. Apparently a snippet of an early demo of “Beneath The Eyelids” (an Octahedron track, now known as “Since We’ve Been Wrong”) leaked online before Bedlam did. It was also previously reported that another Mars Volta, presumably the follow-up to Octahedron, has already been recorded.

The album has been characterized by guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez as an “acoustic” album, but according to a SPIN article the album is not literally acoustic. Cedric Bixler-Zavala has has also spoken of the album as “acoustic” and “mellow,” but that “there’s electricity throughout it!”.

Octahedron tracklist
01. “Since We’ve Been Wrong” – 4:14 (previously know as “Beneath The Eyelids”)
02. “Teflon” – 2:50
03. “Halo of Nembutals” – 11:13
04. “With Twilight as My Guide” – 6:48
05. “Cotopaxi” – 3:50
06. “Desperate Graves” – 5:31
07. “Copernicus” – 6:12
08. “Luciforms” – 10:28
Total Length: 49:45

The image at the top of the post is rumored to be the album artwork but has not been confirmed. Speculation has come from the fact that it is a Jeff Jordan and that it goes really well with the mountain image on the band’s merch page.

(tons of this info via Stereo Zeitgeist)

MP3: The Mars Volta – “Cotopaxi (Radio Edit)”
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and a little bonus for you guys:

MP3: “The Mars Volta – Beneath the Eyelids (Live at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium – 31-12-07)”