Hexadecagon, the fourth album by Austin instrumentalists the Octopus Project, collects eight pieces the quartet wrote and performed as an art installa...
Paul Caine - 04.01.2011
Hexadecagon’s first listeners encountered a spectacle. They filed into a circus tent in The Octopus Project’s Austin hometown and took in an extended ...
AUDRA SCHROEDER - 18.11.2010
TOP's fourth full-length finally feels like a real project, complete with extra credit. The local quartet shakes off the neon brain freeze of 2007's H...
Lukas Sherman - 17.11.2010
It's probably not fair to judge a band based on their name, but my first reaction to Austin quartet the Octopus Project -- before I heard a note of th...
Richard Gehr - 03.11.2010
A stereo mixdown of an ambitious live show involving 16 separate audio and visual feeds, the Octopus Project's all-instrumental fourth album subjects ...
Erik Stabile - 30.10.2010
The Octopus Project is what you might listen to while testing the governor in your car. Somewhere around 110 mph, the annoying jerk of an activated go...
E.N. May - 28.10.2010
The Octopus Project have been ripe with the potential to take off since breaking out of Austin, but it’s been a slow road. The live shows were tight, ...