Amplifier - The Octopus flac album

The Octopus is the third studio album of the Manchester space rock band Amplifier. The format of the album is double CD. It was released to fans online in December 2010 and was commercially released in January 2011.

The tracks themselves are huge with none going on too long. It's a vast album with every track a great listen. There's a much wider variety of styles in the tracks here than on many of their earlier albums, with much more creativity shown. The production approach is also more creative.

The Octopus' - Amplifier (7/10). When attempting to craft a truly landmark-worthy statement in music, the trend in rock music is generally to create something in excess. Be it a groundbreaking concept piece, or a sprawling double album, the formula often rests on how much ambition is involved. Amplifier's The Octopus offers a two-album brace of space rock in the Floydian tradition blended seamlessly with more modern alternative rock influences, a seam of post-rock, and maybe a teeny tiny pinch of Genesis and Ozric Tentacles here and there. The band's debt to Pink Floyd is occasionally a leeeeeettle bit overplayed - the opening intro section lifts just a little bit from Dark Side of the Moon and the eagle-eared will pick up some lyrical references here and there - but they're still appreciably more fresh and original than your typical ock band like.

Peaking on a first album is as much a curse as a triumph. With 2004's self-titled debut, Amplifier created an instant modern hard/alt-rock classic, carving out their own niche within the genre of an airy weightlessness injected with head-crushing riffs and showing some promising progressive leanings. However, after 2006's largely unremarkable (yet enjoyable) sophomore Insider and those familiar problems with record labels, the band decided to disappear for 5 years to prove sceptics wrong by creating a meticulously crafted and self-released rebirth. And the creature that emerged from.

Their third album, The Octopus, was released to fans in December 2010 ahead of a full release in January 2011. Their music is characterised by lead singer and guitarist Balamir's effects pedals, extended heavy sections, atmospheric compositions and philosophical lyrics. mainly dealing with astronomy, the cosmos and human nature