This is the only Mars Volta cd you need. Trust me, you wont be listening to De-loused in whole, a year or so after you get it or Frances at all six months after. This is it boys and girls, the only Mars Volta CD you need in your collection, sorry to say.

The Mars Volta, with Jeremy Michael Ward, creating great music, I believe this is when they finally got their style, if you listen at the concerts they did before releasing this EP, it seems like they had an idea already, but they were working on their style on those european tours, after which they got to the studio and made this.

3 songs, less than 20 mins, but it seems like a whole hour when you listen at it closely, maybe because of the complexity of the songs. I had heard de-facto and had gotten to admire Jeremy Michael Ward, but when I got this, I couldn't believe the masterpiece he did on this record (as well as the other musicians) I'm sure he's responsible for putting on eunuch provocateur a hidden record that when you play the track backwards you can listen at a little girl singing a kinder-garden song in slow motion and then sayin: ¨Did mom or daddy ever had to spank you¨,I know it's sick but it's great, even in de-loused there's stuff like that, at least in Drunkship of lanterns when you play it backwards there's a second voice singing "it multiplies".

The Mars Volta is such an epic band, you gotta listen at their albums several times and play some tracks backwards to get the whole picture, for me they have re-defined the word art.

Overall, this album was pretty great. Only an EP though, but nevertheless, a great album that gets you in the mood for De-loused or Frances.

Cut that City is traditional Mars Volta experimental noise, and then launches into some pretty sweet vocals midway. It then transitions into Concertina which is more slow paced than the previous song, but definitely a good interlude for the fast paced, excellent conclusion of Eunuch Provocateur.

Overall, definitely worth the price because you still get a great Mars Volta experience.