The octopus
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| Studio album from Amplifier | ||||
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Publication |
January 31, 2011 |
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| Label (s) | Ampcorp | |||
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Title (number) |
16 |
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running time |
120: 41 |
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Sel Balamir |
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The Octopus is the third studio album by the rock band Amplifier . It was released in January 2011 as a double album on the band's own label Ampcorp .
Creation and publication
After the second album, Amplifier completed tours with, among others, Opeth and Porcupine Tree . Then began work on the third album, but without the support of a record label . In 2008 two albums were first announced, later a double album. Charlie Barnes (keyboard), Rose Kemp , Claire Lemmon, Denise Johnson and Mike Vennart (all vocals) were involved in the recordings . The Octopus was produced and mixed by Sel Balamir. Self-publishing took place until January 2011. There was also a limited edition with a 70-page booklet and in 2012 The Octopus 2.0 , which contained the EP Fractals and a 120-page booklet. The album is also available as a stream and download from Bandcamp .
Track list
- CD 1
- The Runner - 3:38
- Minion's Song - 5:51
- Interglacial Spell - 6:25
- The Wave - 6:58
- The Octopus - 9:19
- Planet Of Insects - 5:49
- White Horses at Sea / Utopian Daydream - 8:55
- Trading Dark Matter on the Stock Exchange - 11:33 am
- CD 2
- The Sick Rose - 8:58
- Interstellar - 10:18
- The Emperor - 6:40
- Golden Ratio - 5:15
- Fall Of The Empire - 8:30
- Bloodtest - 5:18
- Oscar Night / Embryo - 7:44
- Forever And More - 9:22
style
Amplifiers play progressive alternative rock on The Octopus with hard riffs , electronic effects and distortions as well as varied rhythms. There are bulky rock songs as well as calm, melodic and melancholic passages. Influences from art rock , space rock and post rock are also noticeable. The concept of the album revolves around the symbol of the octopus .
reception
The Octopus received a positive response from the press.
“Sometimes amplifiers get lost a bit within their song monsters and one or the other length has certainly crept in too. But all in all, Amplifiers deliver a great collection of epic, expansive, playful, slightly megalomaniac rock songs that are brilliantly entertaining. "
"Anyone who likes to run their brains into music, who understands a work also as handicraft, who does not understand intelligence as mentality, who likes to grasp atmosphere with both hands and also wants to support a band that operates completely independently of the industry, should not only but must simply access here. "
"In a year when some of the great prog bands are expected to release new material, amplifiers have set standards high from the beginning. The Octopus is an album for others' material to be compared to - not only in 2011, but for many more years to come. "
The eclipsed magazine picked The Octopus into its list of the 150 most important prog albums.
The album sold over 20,000 times.
Web links
- The Octopus at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of The Octopus on the Babyblauen Seiten
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Amplifier: The Octopus , Baby Blue Pages , accessed December 2, 2012.
- ↑ Alexander Cordas: 'The Octopus' by Amplifier , laut.de , accessed on December 2, 2012.
- ^ Raziq Rauf: Review of Amplifier - The Octopus , bbc.co.uk/music , accessed December 2, 2012.
- ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 33.
- ↑ The Octopus - Impala Silver (20,000)