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which yielded some of the most grandiose yet intimate songs Counting Crows had recorded to date

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The Mars Volta "Noctourniquet" 2023-08-18 which yielded some of theNoctourniquet And then everything went black, at least for a while, at least for The Mars Volta. In the months and years following their fifth full length, Octahedron, Omar kept on at his usual fearsome creative pace. In fact, he ramped up his output considerably, starting up his own Rodriguez Lopez Productions label and releasing a slew of solo albums. It was a practice hed begun shortly after De Louseds release, with his solo debut A Manual