Who’s to say instrumental music can’t be satisfying? Austin’s The Octopus Project surely thinks it is, and on their latest full-length, Hello, Avalanche, the band once again marries the super-melodic with the super-quirky.

Octopus Project – I Saw The Bright Shinies (From Hello, Avalanche)

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Octopus Project – Music is Happiness (From One Hundred Thousand Million)

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