Of Montreal

Don't know, but I had that Sunlandic-era tour EP with "Psychotic Feeling" and "Noir Blues to Tinnitus" on it. Those tracks are something.

Liking Daughter of Cloud more than Paralytic Stalks.

gave up on this dude after whatever the one after "skeletal lamping" was (skeletal lamping ruled tho)

agreed.

could be a thread: "releases that ruined bands you previously loved"

How has it managed to ruin them for you? They have a pretty massive amount of albums out, I'm not sure why the latest one has managed to tarnish them that much. I think the album is OK, personally, but completely understand why it has gone down less well with some...

As I've said elsewhere, the last OM was my album of 2012 and the best thing I've heard OM do. So, let's put it down to the vast scope of subjectivity and allow them their scorn.

Daughter of Cloud is ok. Nothing on it feels particularly essential. I've changed my mind on Paralytic Stalks though, it took me a while but I think it's great now.

False Priest ("the one after "skeletal lamping"") is actually my favorite of Montreal album

xpost there's a link to a review i wrote about that album upthread. it's a curate's egg. for me the whole thing kind of shattered a lot of the illusions he'd built up for me around HFAYTD and SL. like watching a really good movie that ends in such a frustrating and terrible way that it kills all sympathy for the director and actors.

Just so enamored with "Imbecile Rages" from that NPR video I linked to above. Realized today that that snatch of Dylan melody in there comes from "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." (Couldn't place it at first.)

New album in fall:

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2013/04/of_montreal_kevin_barnes_interview_lousy_with_sylvianbriar.php

deserves new thread!

Another one? The guy doesn't stop. Somehow I wish he'd settle back and take a bit more time over his stuff. He's ultra talented but it feels like he's burning through material at a rate of knots when really he could make another hissing-fauna masterpiece.

so this has leaked. anyone heard it yet? i was a full-fledged up through sunlandic twins, enjoyed a lot of hissing fauna, didn't like skeletal lamping much at all, and thought false priest was awful. does this one continue the trajectory?

...or will i have to listen to it myself and form my own opinion?!

*shivers*

first impression: best since 'hissing fauna'. there are honest to goodness songs instead of overstuffed psych-disco collages

that would be a start

HF and SL are classics in my book

here is the thread for the new album: of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbria

that's weird, i even did a search for Sylvianbria and didn't find anything. i must have spelled it incorrectly.

Thoughts on the new single?

http://pitchfork.com/news/65869-of-montreal-announce-new-album-innocence-reaches-share-new-song-its-different-for-girls-listen/

To my ears it's one of the catchier, more coherent songs he's done in a while (not that I've been paying very close attention). Lyrically, sounds like he's still, um, working through some stuff…

Not a Joe Jackson cover? For shame!

Real talk though, I've been caning Aureate Gloom for the last few days. It's fucking amazing and maybe one of the best albums of recent years. Let's give this a listen with high hopes then. .

yo this is a cool new sonic tack from kevin <3

haven't quite parsed the layers in the lyrics yet. will assign the case to tt

video is fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_WDugKPnlk

haven't listened to anything by them post-false priest but this seems promising.

new album, this guy is a machine.

this sounds better to me than the material on the previous album, looking forward to seeing it live

I'm a big fan so I have time for every recent album he's made. But I'm hoping the single is an indication he's heading back to more fun and catchy material. Too much anger and misery over the last few albums

Innocence Reaches is now available for streaming on NPR First Listen

hmm

so is this going to be shit or not?

I'm a massive fan and I think this is kind of middling. It has some great moments (Chaos Arpeggiating in particular stands out for me), but overall it's a bit 'light'. It doesn't have the seething anger of the previous album, nor is it as obnoxiously fun as something like Skeletal Lamping. A couple of the tracks sound like reworkings of old material too. I'm still going to listen to it A LOT.

Paralytic Stalks was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

In a good way, right? Well, this is considerably less psychedelic and sprawling than that. Two of the tracks have trap beats...

I think Kevin is at his best when full monster.

nah, i pretty much hated that album. and yeah i loved skeletal lamping. just got sick of his passive aggressive whining really.

That's fair enough. There's a *bit* less of that here, especially as compared with Aureate Gloom.

I thought AG was really cool, and it only got better with repeated listens

It really grew on me too and overall is probably my 3rd favourite. It's a vicious album with some amazing crescendos.

Now youre going too far...

dl AG might be worth a listen, its really in the same vein as the amazing run from Satanic Panic to Skeketal Lamping

the mediocre pitchfork review has arrived

It's a mediocre album tbf

Aureate Gloom might well be their BEST album though, it's completely wonderful

nah this blows it way imo. already has about twice as much replay value this early. there are some hints at melody this time

um...what

AG is nothing but wonderful melodies

This has one song up to that standard (Gratuitous Abysses) and one successful trap experiment (Trashed Exes) but little else to sustain me. Will relisten though

Chaos A r Peggi a ting is good too coz tt told me to say so. We're at a beer festival

I enjoyed Aureate Gloom a lot. Not heard this new one yet.

Aureate Gloom is alright, it's just Kevin's misery is starting to grate a little. He's still pretty miserable here but musically it seems much more alive and he keeps threatening to get back to proper melodies again. Either way, I think IR is twice as good

"My Fair Lady" is really nice.

I managed about a song and a half but it was quite enough for me. This guy really needs to step back and consider what he's doing. You can't make music this detailed and release as much material as he does.

i had no idea what to play today so i decided to throw on this new album, Innocence Reaches. the single seemed too forced for me so i didn't know what to expect. the first half didn't grab me but continued to play it. the album seemed to get more and more psychedelic as i went on, very 60s. i think i might actually like this album, looking forward to playing it again in the next few days.

trying to listen to Innocence Reaches. I don't say this about too many albums but this is nigh-unlistenable. It just sounds like a huge mess. Kevin's lyrics are wooden and don't so much as rub-up against the music than barely attempt to work with it. The music itself regularly goes into sections that sound like a mistake that should have been sorted out in the early stages of mixing.