Unique, bonkers, artistic, creative, brilliant. The Mars Volta have been called many things over the years, but never boring. With an ever-changing supporting line-up alongside the core duo of Omar Rodriquez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala, their albums are a wild ride of Latin rhythms, prog, rock, jazz, dub, pop and, to use Cedric’s phrase, ‘future punk’. Ranking the albums is a challenge because they are all brilliant. This list includes a live record, the original ‘Tremulant’ EP and an Omar solo album - because they all tell an important part of the Mars Volta story.