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The Octopus Project
Hello, Avalanche
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AMG Review of Hello, Avalanche
Mark Deming
All Music GuideThere's a subtle but important difference between music you can dance to and music that makes you want to dance, and Texas indie electronic demons the Octopus Project thankfully understand the distinction. Their third album, Hello, Avalanche, is full to bursting with the friendly beeps and blurps of vintage analog synthesizers and the clatter of drum machines, but while nearly everyone knows how to make a beat these days, the Octopus Project can generate a pulse that has the feel of flesh and blood, and there's a playful sense of joy in their music that's a pleasure to move to. While synthesizers dominate Hello, Avalanche, seemingly any instrument is fair game for the Octopus Project; "Ghost Moves" throws a wall of thrashed-out guitar and clattering drums up against a speedy sequencer pattern, "Snow Tip Cap Mountain" is a curious but delightful duet for marimba and theremin, "Truck"'s organ and guitar combo could pass for a great lost /p>
ew wave single, and there's a winning charm in the sweetly murmured vocals of the closing track, "Queen." And even when Toto Miranda, Yvonne Lambert, and Josh Lambert are indulging their passion for electronics, they never forget to throw a hooky tune in with the beats, and a big part of what makes the grooves so engaging on this album is the fact there are actual songs to go with them. In short, Hello, Avalanche doesn't sound like something to play at a party so much as a party the Octopus Project threw for themselves, and they were nice enough to invite us all along -- it would be rude not to come along, not to mention passing up a really good time.
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Video - The Octopus Project “I Saw The Bright Shinies”
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Last year's Hello, Avalanche by The Octopus Project was one of my favorites. Just in time to get you motivated for a series of local performances, TOP has released a video for "I Saw The Bright Shinies" which is animated by Austin illustrator Divya Srinivasan and is pretty beautiful in it's own right. Take a [...]
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Pitchfork.tv: The Octopus Project:: "An Evening with Rthrtha" [Video Premiere]
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--- - |- Some videos seem designed to show you something about the personality of the band, and some videos are like little art films that you can absorb without knowing who is behind the music. This clip, for the Octopus Project's Hello, Avalanche track "An Evening with Rthrtha", is definitely the latter. Created by Phillip Niemeyer of the Double Triple studio and San Francisco-based media a...
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Stream The Octopus Project's "I Saw The Bright Shinies"
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Here's a cool psychedelic recording featuring multi-tracked Theremin. This is off the group's third album, Hello, Avalanche, which was released Oct. 16.
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The Octopus Project's new material
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Bright, Shiny video
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The Octopus Project's latest video for the track "I Saw The Bright Shinies" was created by Austin illustrator Divya Srinivasan, the animator behind Spoon's "Everything Hits at Once" video and and contributor to Richard Linklater's Waking Life feature film. Peek-A-Boo says "the video depicts three sleepy ghost kids following a heterochromic fox through a snowy twilight to an impromptu critter...
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The Octopus Project: “I saw the Bright Shinies” Video
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The Octopus Project premiered their video for their second single, "I Saw the Bright Shinies", off of last years Hello Avalanche, on pitchfork.tv today. If you want to see a great show, or hypnotized by some great theremin playing, be sure to catch them next tuesday or wednsesday (oct. 21st or 22nd) [...]
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