Octahedron (album)

Octahedron
Studio album by
The Mars Volta
ReleasedJune 23, 2009
Recorded2007, August 2008
Studio99 Sutton Street in Brooklyn, New York[1]
Genre
Length50:03
Label
ProducerOmar Rodríguez-López
The Mars Volta chronology
The Bedlam in Goliath
(2008) 		Octahedron
(2009) 		Noctourniquet
(2012)
Singles from Octahedron
  1. "Cotopaxi"
    Released: June 15, 2009
  2. "Since We've Been Wrong"
    Released: June 26, 2009

Octahedron is the fifth full-length studio album by American progressive rock band the Mars Volta, released on June 23, 2009. The album was released by Warner Bros. Records in North America and Mercury Records worldwide. It is the last studio album to feature drummer Thomas Pridgen and guitarist John Frusciante, and the first not to feature contributions from keyboardist Isaiah "Ikey" Owens and multi-instrumentalist Adrián Terrazas-González.[3]

Regarding the release, vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala states that the band "wanted to make the opposite of all the records we've done. All along we've threatened people that we'd make a pop record, and now we have."[4]

It debuted at number 12 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with sales of 29,980 in its first week of release.[5] As of March 2012, it has sold 84,000 copies in United States.[6]

  1. ^ Page 7 of the album's booklet
  2. ^ Ezell, Brice (February 15, 2012). "The 10 Best Progressive Rock Albums of the 2000s". PopMatters. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  3. ^ "[Table] IAmA: Bassist for the Mars Volta - Juan Alderete". Reddit.com. August 2, 2012.
  4. ^ Blood-Royale, Frederick. Artist 'n' Artist: Frederick Blood-Royale meets The Mars Volta Archived January 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Drownedinsound.com. June 8, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-07-02.
  5. ^ "FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ SOUNDSCAN/ BROADWAY SHOWS/ CASTING CALL « Keely's Korner". October 6, 2011. Archived from the original on October 6, 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
  6. ^ Peters, Mitchell (March 31, 2012). "Night vision". Billboard. p. 34. Retrieved June 29, 2018.