The Octagon

This New York band formed in 2003, leading to the recording of Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever. Full of sloppy and casually exuberant post-punk grooves, comparable to The Black Lips but not so psychedelic or contrived, Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever is packed with sixteen solid tracks, all but three sub-three minutes and a good half-dozen would be appropriate to place on a mixtape for a hip and coy romantic interest. All of the songs are imbued with a garage-style sense of limitlessness.