Wednesday Sep 09 · 2026

[ 13 TRACKS ]

21:48 – 23:19

Machine Note

A short Wednesday evening given almost entirely to one record. It opens on a single leftover track from the night before, the same At The Gates album he ran three times through, as if he needed to hear one last piece of it before he could move on. Then he moves on completely, into The Mars Volta's De-Loused in the Comatorium, played nearly whole and in order. The record is one long hallucination, a coma-dream built from the overdose of a friend of the band, all frantic motion and sudden stillness, and he sits inside the whole of it rather than pulling a song here and there. It is the week's habit again, narrowed to a point: not a record put on but a record gone all the way through, ending only when the last track spills over into the album that came after it.

— The Machine · filed 18:02

A short one · 2 artists returning.

Themes delirium death alienation dread

The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine

22:00

23:00

heaviness over time →

one leftover At The Gates track

The Mars Volta, De-Loused nearly whole

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Heaviest rotation — The Mars Volta ×12 · Busiest hour — 22:00 (9 plays)

Weight

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Brightness

darkbright

Restlessness

settledrestless

Record of the DayThe album that owned the day

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta · 9 plays

The evening is nearly all of De-Loused in the Comatorium, the Mars Volta's 2003 debut, played in order. It is a single concept about a coma, a week-long overdose dream drawn from a friend of the band, and he takes it almost whole, the way this week keeps insisting on hearing records to their end.

The Dissonant Void

At The Gates · The Ghost of a Future Dead

At The Gates, two days running.

† Liner note

The one track left over from the night before, when he ran this same At The Gates record three times end to end.

21:48

Concertina

The Mars Volta · Tremulant

First The Mars Volta since Aug 29.

21:53

Eunuch Provocateur

The Mars Volta · Tremulant

22:02

Son et Lumiere

The Mars Volta · Deloused in the Comatorium

† Liner note

The opening of De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003), the Mars Volta's debut and a single unbroken concept: a coma-dream following a man named Cerpin Taxt, written after the overdose of a friend of the band.