So I picked up the new album Frances the Mute a couple weeks ago because I KNEW there was something about Cedric Bixler Zavala's voice that set me off somehow. I didn't realize what it was until tonight while I was reading some fan bios about the band; he and Omar a Rodriguez-Lopez are formerly of At the Drive-In, a band I was semi-into in 2000-2001. Obviously I wasn't into them enough to know who the band members were, or I might've realized this sooner xD.

But yeah, how do you feel the bands compare to one another? For me, The Mars Volta is obviously the better band. Don't get me wrong, I loved some of the stuff At the Drive-In did, but they've obviously become much more musically diverse than they were.