“Octahedron” was released on June 23, 2009 as the follow-up to “The Bedlam In Goliath”, which had been released just one year earlier. The record was recorded at 99 Sutton Street Studios in Brooklyn, New York. It is the last studio work on which drummer Thomas Pridgen and guitarist John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) can be heard, and the first in which keyboardist Isaiah “Ikey” Owens was no longer involved. Guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López was responsible for the production himself.

The album shows a clear further development of the American progressive rockers’ sound. They moved away a little from their jazz-fusion-progressive rock experiments and tended towards groovier, poppier rock sounds. Singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala said that the band “wanted to do the opposite of all the records we’ve made so far. All this time we’ve been threatening people that we’d make a pop album, and now we’ve done it.” Nevertheless, “Octahedron” was also crowned with success, albeit somewhat less than its three predecessors. In the USA, it reached number twelve in the charts.

“Octahedron” is the band’s penultimate long player. One year after their 2012 album “Noctourniquet”, Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala decided to go their separate ways and devote themselves to new projects.

LP1
1. Since We’ve Been Wrong
2. Teflon
3. With Twilight As My Guide
4. Halo of Nembutals

LP2
1. Cotopaxi
2. Desperate Graves
3. Copernicus
4. Luciforms