Octopus Ride: Music is dominated by unpredictability.

Octopus Ride was formed as Eskimo Chain in 1999. Invented psychedelic post-punk in 2002. Released their debut album in 2013. In the first instance constituted under the moniker Eskimo Chain the group stylistically developed from Syd Barrett imitators, via art rock and psychedelic post-punk to mantra rock. Featuring core members Christian Ekvall and Karl Alm (guitars, vocals, keyboards) Octopus Ride have kept re-forming with different line-ups to this day.

The band’s music is dominated by unpredictability, is made of different influences from psychedelia pop and ethno folk to krautrock. 2013 saw the self-named debut release, followed by the acclaimed sophomore album II.

Tracklist:

1. If You’re Happy (5:04)

2. Money Trouble (2:33)

3. I Saw You (We All Did) (3:06)

4. A Place You Wouldn’t Know (3:07)

5. One Summer’s Break (7:24)

6. Things’ll Never Be The Same (6:36)

7. I Wait (7:11)

8. The Sun In My Hands (6:54)

Total Time 41:55

Line-up:

Karl Alm – Guitar and keyboards

Christian Ekvall – Guitar, vocals and keyboards

Henrik Kyhlberg – Drums

Johannes Måbrink – Bass

Unni Zimmerdahl – Cornet and keyboards

   With

Björn Eriksson – Viola (5)

Robert Karlsson – Bass (3)

Jenny Wilson – Backing vocals (4, 7)

Leo Bergström, Sture Ekvall, Siri Nin Sjöstrand, Vida Pinheiro Ågren – Children’s choir (1)

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