Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Old Money

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“Omar Rodriguez Lopez has set the standard for post-modern squalls that combine post-punk, prog, metal and Latin influences.” - Rolling Stone. Omar Rodriguez Lopez’s ‘Old Money’ is The Mars Volta guitarist / producer / writer / arranger’s first album release with Stones Throw Records. The addictive melodies and passionate execution of each performance render ‘Old Money’ perhaps the most accessible of his non Mars Volta recordings, and the perfect entry point to anyone not yet familiar with what this prolific artist has to offer. The album fits comfortably between the guitarist’s monumental work with The Mars Volta, and his prior rock-based solo releases such as 2007’s ‘The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange’. Loosely based on the concept of exploitative industrialists and, well, their old money, the album presents a 10-track collection of concise rock compositions, which range from progressive to psychedelic to downright funky. Many of these sounds could easily be at home on a Mars Volta record proper had they meshed with Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s vocals; Rodriguez Lopez has hinted that this record was a potential follow up to the 2006 Mars Volta release ‘Amputechture’ until he changed his musical direction. This historical, though thoroughly modern, discourse ensures that this release fits perfectly within the ever-expanding Stones Throw Records’ story. This album serves as an interesting new chapter in the same book that houses Madlib’s interplanetary ramblings, Gary Wilson’s recurring adolescent nightmares and The Stark Reality’s fuzzy children’s stories: all Mars Volta favourites..

   1. "The Power of Myth" – 5:29
   2. "How to Bill the Bilderberg Group" – 3:27
   3. "Population Council's Wet Dream" – 6:17
   4. "Private Fortunes" – 4:12
   5. "Trilateral Commission as Dinner Guests" – 4:51
   6. "1921" – 1:35
   7. "Family War Funding (Love Those Rothschilds)" – 3:55
   8. "Vipers in the Bosom" – 1:49
   9. "I Like the Rockefellers' First Two Records, but After That..." – 4:31
  10. "Old Money" – 9:18