Over the past seven years The Octopus Project have played a consistent role in the “soundtrack of my life.” Every album that they’ve crafted has had its own character, and with the last song (“Queen”) on their last record, Hello, Avalanche, we as fans were introduced to a new angle with the band; one of vocals. Not too long ago our 8-tentacled FRNDS released a Bee Gees cover of “I.O.I.O.” giving us a taste of some legit soft pipes, but with their recently released Golden Beds EP our sweet Austinites..Austinians…Astonians…Texans have given us more than we could have asked for! While hangin’ with the Octopus Project last year at CMJ the subject of vocals came up and the band assured FMLY that they have no prejudice against singing, they only wish to work their voices into the sound if it is appropriate and is not just for lyrical sake. Well congrats, you’ve come out successful! “Wet Gold” and “Moon Boil,” the first two tracks off of Golden Beds do feature vocals and they are no less than kickass. I’d for sure rob a bank or drive a motorcycle over a helicopter to “Moon Boil.” Now for the rest of the EP, lets just say that a Star Trek stun gun doesn’t do justice to what I’ve been feeling internally the past couple of weeks. I don’t want to give anything away or raise any expectations, but the care for which “Rorol” nurtures the listener only to grab us by the collar and slam us head first into the front of its ex-boyfriend’s pick-up truck just makes me want to blast this tune out of my window for the entire Lower East Side to jam on. The latter portion of the EP encourages a “journey through The Octopus Project’s bizarre and wonderful world of reverie including videos by the Zellner Bros., Divya Srinivassan, Phillip Niemeyer and Ryan Junell, Nick Smith, and Toto Miranda. Finally, the live footage of “Truck” from the 2008 Austin City Limits music festival offers a glimpse of the band at their best in the real world, joined on stage by the Austin High School marching band and in the audience by 10,000 waving arms. [via]” Geeeet Ittttt.
Stream the entire EP here, buy it here and tell them how much I, we, you love them here. You got me hypnotized, so mesmerized.
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