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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus
File:Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 19, 2008
Recorded2001-?
GenreExperimental rock
Length43:41
LabelInfrasonic Sound
ProducerOmar Rodríguez-López
Omar Rodríguez-López solo chronology
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward
(2008)
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus
(2008)
Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead
(2008)
Omar Rodríguez-López chronology
The Bedlam in Goliath
(2008)
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus
(2008)
Octahedron
(2009)

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus is the first instrumental and sixth overall studio album and by Omar Rodríguez-López, released by Infrasonic Sound[1][2] on September 19, 2008. It is one of four solo albums completed in 2001 by Omar Rodríguez-López during the interim period following the demise of At the Drive-In and the formation of The Mars Volta. Absence... was tracked at Doug Messenger's North Hollywood studio only a few weeks after Rodriguez-Lopez recorded A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One there, and is comparable to that project in both sound and atmosphere.

The album features several tracks that were "originally intended for use by The Mars Volta". The second half of "Hands Tied to the Roots of a Hemorrhage" was reworked as a middle section of "Eriatarka" on The Mars Volta's first full-length, De-loused in the Comatorium. "Tied Prom Digs on the Docks" features musical ideas that were later used on "Cassandra Gemini" on Frances the Mute. In addition, the song "Teflon" from the 2009 album Octahedron would be based on the instrumental "A Story Teeth Rotted For".

No personnel credits are listed in the insert for either the LP or CD, though it features a photograph of Jeremy Michael Ward never seen prior to this release. According to press release, Ward didn't play on the album but was present during the sessions.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Omar Rodríguez-López

No.TitleLength
1."Hands Tied to the Roots of a Hemorrhage"4:05
2."City Dreams Inside a Truck"1:44
3."Sex, Consolation for Misery"4:25
4."Tied Prom Digs on the Docks"11:24
5."Seeth of Cloudless Hymstone"2:45
6."Mood Swings"6:53
7."An Ancient Shrewdness in the Veins"4:10
8."A Story Teeth Rotted For"3:48
9."Of Ankles to Stone"4:32
Total length:43:41

Release history

Region Date Label
Germany September 19, 2008 Willie Anderson Recordings
United Kingdom September 22, 2008 Willie Anderson Recordings
United States October 28, 2008 Infrasonic Sound

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Infrasonic Sound". Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  2. ^ Cargo Records