Frances the Mute - 5 or 12 tracks?

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Everyone's reporting that the album is five tracks long, including every review, so I picked it up today, only to find that my copy is 12 tracks. Now I know that it's a bunch of "suites", but everything has been said that the final track clocks in at 31 minutes, while it's all split up on mine.

― Chris Roberts, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

I heard that the reason they couldnt make it a 5 track album was because legally they'd still owe the record company another album, as a 5 track cd would be an EP. Still i dont know why they chose 12 tracks. If they had split it into all the suites it would have been 18 tracks, but as it stands the tracklisting looks like this.

1. Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus
2. The Widow
3. L'Via L'Viaquez
4. Miranda that ghost just isn't holy anymore
5-12 Cassandra Gemini

It is very difficult to see where the suites change over especially on Cassandra Gemini, and i think its just a rushed poorly thought out final tracklist.

― dmun, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Did this question really need its own thread?

The Mars Volta - Francis the Mute

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

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