Congrats to The Octopus Project for the stir their recent release "Hello, Avalanche" on Peek-A-Boo has generated. Aside from winning last year's MySpace favorite band contest and being singled out as one of the TOP Five bands to watch from the 2006 SXSW festival, most recently by David Fricke, Rolling Stone's senior music editor, in his "Fricke's Picks."
The November 29th issue Mr. Fricke described the band as, "smart pop scientists and total party animals, like Stereolab with happy feet," and the album as "tightly composed bundles of synthesized whoop and circus-calliope cheer."
To read the article - click here.
You can listen to their single "All the Bright Shinies" here and purchase the album or other tracks on Austin Music Download.
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