Formats
BOO1223 - 2xLPs
647603399614
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Welcome to 2018 everyone—the year that will finally bring flying cars, robot butlers and a telepathy-based internet. It’s been 11 years since the release of The Octopus Project’s third album and perennial fan-favorite Hello Avalanche. As such, it felt appropriate to re-release the record in a deluxe incarnation—newly remastered, visually redesigned, and pressed on two 180-gram LPs in a gatefold sleeve. That second LP contains 2009’s Golden Beds EP (9th anniversary alert!) and a full side of never-before-heard demos from that era, giving fans a look into an expanded Avalanche universe for the first time. This album represented a bold step forward musically and artistically for the band. With ragged, furious distorted guitars at one end of the spectrum and the pure, luminescent tones of the Theremin at the other, it mines a staggering variety of sound (via strings, synthesizers, drums, glockenspiel, trombones, etc.), filling the songs with brilliant contrasting colors and cascading waves of sonic bliss. While the band’s previous records were mainly self-produced, for this outing they wanted to achieve the perfect blend between highend studio trickery and lo-fi home experimentation. It was recorded and co-produced by Ryan Hadlock (Blonde Redhead, The Gossip) at rural Bear Creek Studio outside Seattle in February, 2007, and mixed in various sessions by the band, Hadlock and Erik Wofford (Voxtrot, Explosions In The Sky). As the band continues to forge ahead into the telepathic-flyingrobot future, exploring new sound worlds with every album, take a look back to this major turning point in their ever-expanding body of work.
Tracks
1. Snow Tip Cap Mountain 2. Truck 3. Bees Bein? Strugglin? 4. An Evening with Rthrtha 5. Black Blizzard/Red Umbrella 6. Upmann 7. Mmaj 8. I Saw The Bright Shinies 9. Ghost Moves 10. Vanishing Lessons 11. Exploding Snowhorse 12. Loud Murmuring 13. Queen 14. Wet Gold 15. Moon Boil 16. Rorol 17. Wood Trumpet 18. Half A Nice Day 19. Liztape 20. Truck (Practice) 21. LEG 22. Beehive?s Dream 23. Wameu! 24. It?s Hard To Be Smart 25. Boo Best 26. Green House 27. That?s The Bird Mystery 28. Singles Chart 29. Sneak Out 30. The Future