The Octopus Project
Identification Parade

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While The Octopus Project, the group Senior Rolling Stone Editor David Fricke describedas an outtake of the Beach Boys Good Vibrations with Mogwai as the studioband, gears up for another extensive North American tour and begins work on its newrecord, Peek-A-Boo is proud announce the vinyl reissues of their first two albums.In 2001, the Octopus Project s reputation as the band that hooked up their halfbrokenelectronic shit all wrong first attracted the label s attention, but actually seeingthem play way too loud one Friday night sealed the deal, and by the end of theweekend Peek-A-Boo had agreed to release the band s brilliant debut, IdentificationParade, in the spring of 2002. Best described as ambidextrous equipment-failurejunk-tronica, this record deftly combines the experimentation of progressive postrock,the blips and bleeps of electronic music, and the raw, human rock of rock. Organicinstruments like guitars, bass, drums, bells, and Theremin blend with electronicbeats, programmed loops and well-chosen samples to create a soundtrack that rangesfrom lush and haunting to danceable grooves to outright rock.One Ten Hundred Thousand Million, the band s highly-anticipated sophomore album,was originally released in 2005 on CD and very limited-edition vinyl. A rich, 3-D,technicolor studio amalgamation, the record is injected with the wild energy found innoisy, tightly-packed clubs. This music is happiness complex, multi-shaded, 23rd-Century joy from a band so ahead of its time, they had to customize their calendars