With their second album, One Ten Hundred Thousand Million, The Octopus Project has added a few more crayons to the fire: it's the same band that produced 2002's Identification Parade -- beat machines and keyboards stacked against drum kits and guitars -- but the quiet parts are quieter and prettier ("Bruise," "Lots More Stairs"), and the loud parts are way fucking louder ("Exit Counselor," "Six Feet Up").
Toto, Josh, and Yvonne have been at this for a while now, accompanied lately by Brandon Durham in the guitarist's seat. In the two years...
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