The new Octopus Project album is sublime. I'm just going to turn this into a habit where I blow my critical load right at the start of the post, so those of you who just want to know whether or not an album is good or not can just skip everything else I say here. To be honest, when it comes to this album, I don't have much to say outside of the fact that it is sublime.

Most of this album sounds a bit like this song. Some parts are dreamier, less Deacon-y, but every song is great through and through.

Hexadecagon originally came into this world as an 8-channel audio, 8-projector video live act that they performed outside a Whole Foods at SXSW this year. They set up the eight speakers circling the audience, with the audience circling the band at the center. Doesn't that sound crazy? Crazy awesome? Just imagine this song swirling around you. It'd be like being high without the being high part.

They're playing locally here in Los Angeles at The Echoplex on the 23rd. I'll be there. I don't know whether or not they're going to do the 8-channel/video version of Hexadecagon, but I can be hopeful. Knowing the Echoplex, though, I don't think the size of the venue (and the amount and arrangement of support columns) would be suitable for that kind of arrangement.

I guess we'll see.