The Octopus Project

Their first album, Identification Parade, came out in 2002, setting them off on a musical path that veers through blown-out rock’n’roll, vibrant electronics, surreal pop and expansive psych landscapes.

2002 saw the release of their debut album, Identification Parade, on Peek-A-Boo Records after label head, Travis Higdon, witnessed them at only one show & immediately signed them.

David Fricke described the band as, "smart pop scientists and total party animals, like Stereolab with happy feet,"[2] and proclaimed them as one of his top SXSW picks that year.

The band went on to support underground hip hop star Aesop Rock and indie electronic icons Stereo Total on their national tours that fall.

In February 2009, The Octopus Project composed and performed a series of unique, individual scores for short films played at Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas.

On June 22, 2018, the band released the soundtrack for the film Damsel (a western directed by the Zellner Bros., starring Robert Pattinson & Mia Wasikowska) on Milan Records.

Produced on period specific instruments—banjo, musical saw, acoustic guitar, flute, wine glasses—the score finds the band in unknown territory sounding at once both haunting and majestic.

2020 & 2021 was spent working on the scores for the dark comedy film The Disappearance of Toby Blackwood and a documentary about Reading Rainbow entitled Butterfly In the Sky.

The film's closing credits song, "The Creatures of Nature," is sung by Riley Keough and written by The Octopus Project & director, David Zellner.