Hexadecagon (album)

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Hexadecagon
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 26, 2010 (2010-10-26)
Genre Indietronica
Length48:34
Label Peek-A-Boo
The Octopus Project chronology
Hello, Avalanche
(2007)
Hexadecagon
(2010)
Fever Forms
(2013)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
The A.V. Club B− [2]
Consequence of Sound B [3]
Pitchfork 4.6/10 [4]

Hexadecagon is a studio album by the electronic band the Octopus Project. [5] It was released in 2010 by Peek-A-Boo Records. [6]

Contents

Critical reception

The Austin Chronicle called Hexadecagon "a concept album that's actually fun to indulge," writing that it "finds [the band] diving headlong into unexplored realms (the 11-minute 'Circling'), and sounding more thoughtful, less cartoonish." [7] Spin wrote: "Hexadecagon is the Tubular Bells of the 8-bit generation, and that’s a compliment." [8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Fuguefat"3:36
2."Korakrit"4:33
3."A Phantasy"6:58
4."Circling"10:57
5."Toneloop"3:14
6."Glass Jungle"4:54
7."Hallucinists"6:29
8."Catalog"7:49

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