Octopus Project Announce New EP, Tour

Veteran Austin post-rockers The Octopus Project have some exciting news - one, they've got a new EP out next month entitled Golden Beds, and two, they will further sweeten the summer with tour dates and vinyl reissues of their first two releases Identification Parade and One Ten Hundred Thousand Million.

Golden Beds includes reworkings of older songs, unheard tracks, and a few that had limited distribution originally. Also included on the EP are videos and footage of the band performing live, which includes "Truck" live at the Austin City Limits Festival in 2008. Meanwhile, the band's tour takes them on about a two week jaunt, ending with a performance at Stubb's with Explosions in the Sky and The Wooden Birds.

Stream and pre-order the EP here.

Track List for Golden Beds:

1. Wet Gold
2. Moon Boil
3. Rorol
4. Wood Trumpet
5. Half a Nice Day
6. Wet Gold (video, dir. by Zellner Bros.)
7. I Saw the Bright Shinies (video, dir. by Divya Srinivasan)
8. An Evening with Rthrtha (video, dir. by Double Triple & Ryan Junell)
9. Truck (video, dir. by Zellner Bros.)
10. Music is Happiness (video, dir. by Nick Smith)
11. Exit Counselor (video, dir. by Toto Miranda)
12. Truck (live at Austin City Limits Festival 2008) (video)

Tour Dates:

6/24 Baton Rouge, LA (Spanish Moon)
6/25 Birmingham, AL (The Bottle Tree) w/Hrom, Shapes Like Dinosaurs
6/26 Knoxville, TN (The Pilot Light) w/Wee Giant
6/27 Louisville, KY (The Rudyard Kipling) Performing "Visual Music" at the "Last Call Film Festival"
6/28 Memphis, TN (Hi-Tone) w/American Gods
6/29 Norman, OK (Opolis)
7/04 Austin, TX (Stubb's) w/Explosions in the Sky, The Wooden Birds

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