Kanye West has suggested that he and seminal prog act The Mars Volta have an unfinished record together.
On July 22nd, the musician rattled of a series of peculiar tweets. One tweet saw Kanye share a clip of a sports documentary, soundtracked by The Mars Volta song ‘The Widow,’ off their acclaimed 2005 record Frances the Mute, captioned “The Mars Volta we need to finish the album.”
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1285811409721282561
The Mars Volta – led by Omar Rodrigo Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala – split up in 2012. This is the first news of a collaboration between the band and Kanye West.
Though we would absolutely love for this to be a reality, because a Kanye West collaborative record with The Mars Volta would be nothing short of glorious, we’re taking everything Kanye says with a grain of salt.
Earlier today, Kanye’s wife, Kim Kardashian West, released a lengthy statement, alluding that West may be in the throes of a bipolar episode.
“Living with bi-polar disorder does not diminish or invalidate his dreams and his creative ideas, no matter how big or unobtainable they may feel to some,” she wrote. “That is part of his genius and as we have all witnessed, many of his big dreams have come true.”
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In May last year, Cedric Bixler-Zavala confirmed that a Mars Volta reunion was in the works.
“What it’s NOT going to be is your ‘fav member lineup’ playing their ‘classic records’ in full etc. Maybe we’ll play old shit, who knows how we feel,” he wrote on Twitter.
“Just remember our past campaigns never relied on playing requests or going fully backwards … it’s new shit, new people, left turns , tangent inconsistencies, mazapan dreams and churro wishes. I will say this though, when ORL played me a grip of new shit I fucking cried. Like Claire Daines in Romeo & Juliet cried. Yeah it was fucking weird.
“It’s in its infancy right now. No deadlines, no ball tripping, no drama, just 2 grown ass men using essential oils and bold new perfumes shooting ideas and scooting their ass across the fucking lawn trying to get rid of these worms.”
