03 January 2007

Album Review:
THE OCTOPUS PROJECT and BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW: The House of Apples and Eyeballs
(graveface records)



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Following up the excellent One Ten Hundred Thousand Million, Austin-based noisy pseudo-electronic freakout post-dance rock-rock group, The Octopus Project, mash-up their own multi-dimensional musings with those of Chicago-based Black Moth Super Rainbow on The House of Apples and Eyeballs.

The result of a year-long long distance collaboration, the record incorporates the drums, guitars, piano and theremin of The Octopus Project with the synths, atari sounds, vocoder, and electronic beats of Black Moth Super Rainbow to create a soundtrack to an extraterrestrial fairytale – fluttering whimsically through the bends and folds of space time until the listener no longer knows which direction is forward or backward. In case you’re confused, that’s a good thing... no, it’s a great thing.

– dániel perlaky

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