El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez - "Cryptomnesia" Vinyl LP W/Extras

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Cryptomnesia is the debut studio album by El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez, released on May 5, 2009. The album is the first of three albums recorded by the band, and is the only one to have been released. It has long been rumored that Omar's "Mantra Hiroshima" LP consisted of the outtakes from these sessions. The album was "recorded in the summer of 2006, around the same time I did Old Money. It was a very, very fun record to make. I made that record in five or six days" says Omar.

This "supergroup" features Omar Rodríguez-López on guitar, Zach Hill on drums, Jonathan Hischke on synth bass, and Juan Alderete on bass. Additionally, Cryptomnesia features the vocals of Cedric Bixler-Zavala who stated: "If anyone's bummed that Octahedron is 'too simple or too pop', they can buy [this] album and it'll take them right back to that [heavier] kind of sound. It's one of my favorite things I've ever worked on. It's pretty much a Mars Volta record"

In the liner notes of the album, Omar states:

To soothe the symptoms of a cursed go-between, this magnetar of a record (an uncomfortable meditation on bad manners), was recorded in the foul summer of 2006. It then sat in my grotesquely overpopulated, roman holiday of a closet, awaiting its vocal tracks, which were finally realized in the illustrious Australian summer of 2008. Being predisposed to insults, I would like to say now that I love this record with all my guts and find it very much worth the wait (I hope you'll agree, though I sense some of you may not). This project, as many before it, though one small step in my (our) personal therapy, still bears the question: is our footing sure enough to be trusted?

1. "Tuberculoids" – 4:27
2. "Half Kleptos" – 3:09
3. "Cryptomnesia" – 6:02
4. "They're Coming to Get You, Barbara" – 4:08
5. "Puny Humans" – 2:31
6. "Shake Is for 8th Graders" – 2:12
7. "Noir" – 3:44
8. "Paper Cunts" – 2:51
9. "Elderly Pair Beaten with Hammer" – 2:03
10. "Warren Oates" – 4:55
11. "Fuck Your Mouth" – 0:23

• Omar Rodriguez Lopez – guitars, keys
• Zach Hill – drums
• Cedric Bixler Zavala – vocals
• Juan Alderete – bass
• Jonathan Hischke – synth bass