The Octopus (album)

Occupation

• Sel Balamir
• Neil Mahony
• Matt Brobin

The Octopus is the third studio album by the rock band Amplifier. It was released in January 2011 as a double album in the band's own label Ampcorp.

Creation and publication

After their second album Amplifier completed tours with, among others, Opeth and Porcupine Tree. Then the work began on the third album, but without the support of a record label. In 2008, two albums were first announced, later a double album. On the recordings Charlie Barnes (keyboards), Rose Kemp, Claire Lemmon, Denise Johnson and Mike Vennart were involved (all vocals). The Octopus was produced and mixed by Sel Balamir. The publication in the self- publishing lasted until January 2011. There also appeared a limited edition with 70 - page booklet and in 2012, The Octopus 2.0, which the EP Fractals and a 120 -page booklet included. The album also stands as a stream and download via Bandcamp available.

Title list

Style

Amplifier play The Octopus progressive alternative rock with heavy riffs, electronic effects, distortions and varied rhythms. It can be found both bulky rock songs as well as a quiet, melodic and melancholic passages. Also influences from art rock, space rock and post-rock are perceptible. The concept of the album revolves around the symbol of the Kraken.

Reception

The Octopus was well received by the press.

" Sometimes Amplifier lost within their song Monster and something one way or another length has certainly crept. But in the aggregate supply Amplifier a great collection of epic, cantilevered, playful, slightly megalomaniac rock songs from that entertain shiny. "

" Those who remember music like pushing against the brain, who also works as a hand grasps a work who does not understand intelligence as Verkopftheit who prefers to attack atmosphere with both hands and wants along the way to support a band that operates completely independently of the industry, should not only be, but must simply access here. "

"In a year when some of the great prog bands are expected to release new material, Amplifier 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 took The Octopus on its list of the 150 most important prog albums.