The Mars Volta’s new album is out now

Sometimes some things just don’t got as planned. When their ninth studio album, “Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio,” was leaked months before it was even formally revealed, The Mars Volta used a surprising strategy. Instead, the band went mostly radio silent on the endeavor and started introducing audiences to it through full album live performances, defying the conventional strategy of going into emergency mode and putting out the record online. It took weeks for the band to subtly acknowledge the album’s existence, even though they played it nightly on their recently ended run with Deftones and Fleshwater. Through Clouds Hill, the expansive 18-song epic has now formally arrived on streaming services and ought to be accessible right now on top digital service providers.