Landscape Tantrums Deepens Mysteries of Debut LP New vinyl box set, 'La Realidad De Los Sueños,' includes unfinished original recordings of 'De-Loused in the Comatorium' Ryan Reed | April 19, 2021 - 1:42 pm Share this article: Remember when albums were marketed on TV commercials? (For that matter, remember commercials?) Back in 2003, flipping through channels during a vacation with friends, I was physically startled by the sound of “Inertiatic ESP” — flailing distortion, glass-shatteringly high vocals, drums as mammoth as the Smoky Mountains outside the rec room window of our rental cabin. Who the fuck is this band? The very next day, I casually suggested that we — a trio of small-town Bible Belt teenagers without easy access to a music store — make a detour on our drive home to the nearest Best Buy. I scanned the racks and, to my disbelief, found the CD: the Mars Volta’s