Imagine “That Girl” at her hottest, along with three tie-wearing Donald Hollingers conjuring a peppy, experimental wall-of-sound, and you pretty much get the intoxicating dance party that ushered in March like a lion at the Hi-Dive on Tuesday.

A sweaty, cuddly lion. Octopus Project, supported by Denver’s Le Divorce and Force Publique, is a 12-year-old, primarily instrumental foursome from Austin with indie-rock sensibilities that combine heavy percussion, driving guitars, synthesizers and analog equipment. At the forefront is the seductive Yvonne Lambert, channeling a 1969 Marlo Thomas at her most elegantly coiffed, manipulating the theremin with the lost intensity of a symphony conductor. On Monday, I couldn’t imagine what the genre-du-jour term “indietronica” might even mean. Now it seems synonymous with “Octopus Project.”

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John Moore founded The Denver Post Underground Music Showcase in 2001 and is now the paper’s theater critic. Follow him on Twitter here.

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