One Ten Hundred Thousand Million:The Octopus Project

Title: One Ten Hundred Thousand Million

Label: Peek-a-Boo

Genre: instrumental genius

Rating: 11 of 7

This is actually the second review of this glorious album that I wrote. The first one was slightly over the top, praising the band for creating maybe the best record I have ever heard; and stating that if you didn’t “get it,” then you did not “know” music, yada, yada, yada. Well I decided to stop doing my impression of Pitchfork and be slightly more objective, so… The Octopus Project is three kids from Austin, TX and with a little help from their friends have created an extremely good album. It’s being described as “ambidextrous equipment failure junk-tronica,” and I cannot come close to giving you a better description. Basically they took the best characteristics of rock, punk, post-anything and electronica and made a single, shining product. I find it extremely personal and moving, best for those lone inebriated (with your drug of choice) nights that you catch yourself contemplating about life. This already has a guaranteed spot in my top 5 of 2005 not two weeks into the year. I really want to push everyone to play this album and give it the respect it deserves. It really progresses music in exactly the right way.

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