Almost 20 years ago The Mars Volta’s album Deloused in the Comatorium was released. I’ve been listening to it a lot lately on Apple Music. It is still my favorite record ever, from beginning to end.

I never bothered to listen to anything from At the Drive In (their previous band) or any subsequent album. I don’t know how this record worked it’s way to me in the first place. But it is an absolute sonic masterpiece. It’s a fever dream of music, meant to be listened to while driving alone at 3am, going too fast on an interstate three states away, swerving around semis, with way too much caffeine coursing through the veins. Not that I would know.