Wet Gold – The Octopus Project from Zellner Bros. on Vimeo.

Austin Texas’s Octopus Project’s most recent album / art project / sound collage Hexadecagon is flat out fucking amazing. George Gershwin meets Holy Fuck at a field party and a drug fueled grope session on someone’s sequencer breaks out. The touch points referenced by the band really exposes the depth of my ignorance as Terry Riley and Steve Reich, minimalist composers are pegged by name, but the album can’t be described as minimal.

It’s purely maximal.

Piano loop after piano loop, bass line and bass line and drums and drums and drums meet and discretely depart creating not really songs and not really tracks but assigning the term “composition” to these really takes away the playfulness residing in each part of the album.

Tomorrow night, they’re teaming up with Portland’s Starfucker to bring their intensely visual experience to Music Hall of Williamsburg. I’ll be covering it with photos.