Shock Octopus Life on a Pier

Cult Art-Rockers Shock Octopus return once more with a multi-tentacled embrace for their fourth EP, Enter the Exit.

Staying true to their activist values, Enter the Exit is based on environmental issues, climate grief and existential crisis – a requiem for the 'decade of consequence'. No Easy Way Down for example, is based on climate change from the perspective of a polar bear. The themes of the album have already led to enthusiastic interviews through Beat Magazine, community radio and environmental themed podcasts.

After reading the Philip K Dick novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said central songwriter Michael Bayliss was blown away by the imagery of the book title alone. This inspired the writing of focus single Life On A Pier that is part sci-fi apocalypse and part environmental eulogy. Life On A Pier is part discofied art-pop and part orchestrated prog rock. It is continuously restless, progressing through many musical ideas, but never eschewing pulse or melody.

'Shock Octopus is a curious, admirably restless beast, filled with cranky, complex pop songs that pull shapes from all over the place (Mr. Bungle? Grandaddy? Muse?)' – Addicted To Noise

Shock Octopus have been through an immense full circle journey this last decade, taking various forms and fulfilling various functions. Enter the Exit brings together the old and the new with a return to the epic, complex multi-layered arrangements.