- 28
- Sep
The hyperactive, theremin-wielding outfit Octopus Project ruled the Pool for a gloriously boozy Sunday this summer, mixing balloons, Theremins, and Peelander-Z into a 45-minute exercise of whetting our appetites for the new. And for their forthcoming, third LP, the Austin-based quartet set out on a defined mission to "achieve the perfect blend between high-end studio trickery, and lo-fi home experimentation." That meant tracking both to tape and using ProTools, splicing studio time with bits lifted straight from the album's demos, etc. New cut "Truck" is up to snuff by those standards, flipping a keyboard signature held down with garage-y, fuzzed-up guitar into a cymbal-ridden section of pretty, well-mixed arpeggios. Perfectly scuffed studio sound, and out in just over two minutes.
