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The House of Apples and Eyeballs
The Octopus Project and Black Moth Super Rainbow
The House of Apples and Eyeballs
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
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"The House of Apples & Eyeballs" is not a split, but a year-long, full-length collaboration by both bands. The Octopus Project is known and loved for their uncategorizable broken-guitars-meet-samplers-meet-drums-meet-d...  more »

     
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All Artists: The Octopus Project and Black Moth Super Rainbow
Title: The House of Apples and Eyeballs
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Graveface Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 10/31/2006
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 751937296027

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"The House of Apples & Eyeballs" is not a split, but a year-long, full-length collaboration by both bands. The Octopus Project is known and loved for their uncategorizable broken-guitars-meet-samplers-meet-drums-meet-drum machines sound, while the musical island of Black Moth Super Rainbow would rather play their songs in the woods and not let you know if their gear is broken or working just fine. Holding hands from Austin to Pittsburgh, they set out to create one of the wilder pop records of the year. For anyone familiar with both bands, may you find yourself at peace with this dream record. But know that not all is as it seems, and the challenge of figuring out which band played which parts may sometimes be impossible. While a couple tracks did make it to the record in their original, one-band form, most were passed back and forth for several rounds of dismemberment, rearrangement, and augmentation. The result overflows with sonic treats: cut-up beats and vocoder melodies collide with huge, distorted riffs. A theremin orchestra descends into layered steel guitars before all is dissolved in a wash of hazy synths. The Octopus Project appears courtesy of Peek-A-Boo Records. They have wowed audiences in 2006 at Coachella, and were named one of Rolling Stone's breakout bands of SXSW. They will soon be going into the studio to record their very highly anticipated third album in 2007. Black Moth Super Rainbow lives on Graveface Records, and although known as somewhat of an enigma, has come out of the forest in 2006 to play at the request of bands like Of Montreal and The Black Angels. They have been recording their third full length album that will be released when the time is just right.
 

CD Reviews

Not a bad idea
Nobody | 08/17/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)

"One senses that it would have been easy for a CD like this to go over the edge into unlistenable territory if the individual composers had a free hand with all these instrumental tracks jumbled together. By having two bands pass the music back and forth it's entirely possible that it forced individual passages in the songs to mellow out and be melodic, that someone's ears were hurt in the process, forcing change. Anyway, it did work out and it's a nice techno-ambient excursion. I would have liked more of a human element involved, a girl's voice with this type of music fits so well."
Great album
Ronnie James | Springfield, Mass | 01/17/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love the Octopus, and they expand their sound on this album. Of course, this being a joint effort, it is not just their "voice" being heard."