The Octopus Project Reveal New EP Details, Plan Vinyl Reissues, Hit the Road

Austin, Texas-based experimental indie pop band The Octopus Project will be releasing their new enhanced EP, Golden Beds, on July 14th through Peek-A-Boo Records. You can currently stream the lead-off track "Wet Gold" on the band's MySpace and the entire EP at the Peek-A-Boo website. The EP is the follow-up to their 2007 LP, Hello, Avalanche, and comes with the following bonus content:

Golden Beds Enhanced EP Videos:
1. Wet Gold (dir. by Zellner Bros.)
2. I Saw the Bright Shinies (dir. by Divya Srinivasan)
3. An Evening with Rthrtha (dir. by Double Triple & Ryan Junell)
4. Truck (dir. by Zellner Bros.)
5. Music is Happiness (dir. by Nick Smith)
6. Exit Counselor (dir. by Toto Miranda)
7. Truck (live at the Austin City Limits Festival 2008)

Golden Beds Tracklisting:
1. Wet Gold
2. Moon Boil
3. Rorol
4. Wood Trumpet
5. Half A Nice Day

The band's first two albums One Ten Hundred Thousand Million and Identification Parade will be reissued on vinyl towards the end of the summer.

The band embarks on a short national tour this Thursday in support of the Golden Beds EP.

Dates:
06/25 - Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
06/26 - Birmingham, AL @ Bottle Tree
06/27 - Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light
06/28 - Louisville, KY -- The Rudyard Kipling
06/29 - Memphis, TN @ Hi tone
06/30 - Norman, OK @ Opolis
07/04 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's w/ Explosions in the Sky, The Wooden Birds

http://www.theoctopusproject.com/
http://www.myspace.com/theoctopusproject
http://www.peekaboorecords.com/octopusproject