^^^that opening track is stone classic, especially because after 2 mins of classic schiz-pop-ness it gets *stuck* in some noise groove and *cannot* escape it despite blatantly trying to...it's such a cool experiment in tension
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
my favorite from "hissing fauna" is "we were born mutants again with leafling". they're actually really similar songs, and i like listening to one after the other
― Thanks, Casey Westcott Fleet Foxes (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
& the more he worries at it, the more glaring becomes his inability to actually write, perform and record dirty mind
(xpots.)
― thomp, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:15 (4 hours ago) Bookmark
^^^this otm now I think about it.
I kind of didn't like Hissing Fauna, maybe I should try again. (Loved Skeletal Lamping, couldn't be bothered with the others.)
― b!tchass, birdchested bastard sees a dude bigger than he (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I prefer the moments to the songs, as I've said. The exchange about "you don't think I've got caller ID?" into that chorus in Triphallus is one of the most perfect pop moments this decade
Hissing Fauna seems quite good, but The Past Is A Grotesque Animal and maybe the two tracks after it kinda tower over everything else
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i love love hissing fauna. sam, maybe you should try the final track ("we were mutants...") first, then "the past is a grotesque animal", then maybe the singles ("heimdalsgate", "a sentence of sorts").
― Thanks, Casey Westcott Fleet Foxes (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
especially "a sentence of sorts in kongsvinger". goddamn that goes over incredibly live
listening, first time, to skeletal lamping, when the DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN tchk tchk do do tchk tchk groove comes in, i had this horrible feeling of 'i am going to spend my next x listens to this trying to convince myself that this moment succeeds musically in what it is trying to do'
this is common to me when listening to follow-ups by indie bands who have managed to make something that succeeds fantastically on its own terms
the sorts of craft being displayed on hissing fauna seem more sympa to kevin barnes than those he attempts to put on show in skeletal lamping: also, the former's grounding in real events help lend perspective and/or meaning to the georgie fruit shenanigans
i mean 'real events' as in "the narrator of a song is referring to something that actually happened in context of the song" rather than "stuff that actually happened to kevin barnes": although, probably, the latter too
― thomp, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I have listened to Skeletal Lamping so much that I've kind of forgotten that Hissing Fauna existed. (This might be because my CD drive plays the former and rejects the latter)
He writes so absolutely clinically *on* about depression that I'm prepared to forgive him his occasional missteps about sexuality - except, honestly, most of the time, they don't feel like missteps, more like brutal honesty. The songs, lyrically, work for me, even without knowing whether he's singing them from a Personna or not. (I tend to ignore artists when they sing in "Personas" - because, honestly, every aspect of songwriting and performance is done from a stance or personna anyway. I have never understood why songwriting is always supposed to only be written in the first person experiential, like musicians are unable to have imaginations in the way that novelists or painters do?)
― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
(It's all about Plastis Wafers -> Death Is Not A Parallel Move for me)
― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
dan what i think i meant was that i've always felt they're a weird kind of love-hate band: people tend to love the first record they hear by them and then not care as much for the rest of their stuff. they're like a really smart but way too hyper-active friend you're charmed by at first but then get sick of after a while. except the first one i heard (gay parade) i couldn't stand, and the next one i heard, sunlandic twins, i still love, so my portrayal here isn't exactly airtight
― kamerad, Thursday, 18 June 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Aldhils Arboretum is such a goddamn sad album :/ Never really noticed when playing it in the background because it sounds so upbeat/goofy.
― CompuPost, Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
'kissing in the grass' is probably their most perfect pop song ever.
― keythhtyek, Monday, 21 June 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
free show in Toronto tomorrow night. I got boys' clubbed out of the poker game my husband's going to, so I might go dance around at Yonge-Dundas square!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 15 June 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Riiiight. Busy weekend this weekend.
― BC Forgbs (Ówen P.), Friday, 15 June 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
I saw Iggy Pop last year(?) and the crowd was insane.. hoping the OM crowd will be a bit smaller, but I think the Flaming Lips are playing later so maybe not.. at least I'm tall. :P
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 15 June 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
If you're not at work you should go to this show (not of Montreal but seeing as we're talking about NxNE shit) it's happening right now
I can't go I have a cold and am also at work
http://justshows.com/toronto/2012/06/15/nxne-nxnexperiment-ii/1671/
― BC Forgbs (Ówen P.), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Just got off work but have a hair appointment on Queen west in 15 minutes. :(Feel better!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
I realize this is such an obvious statement that it was incorporated into the Hipster Olympics sketch that came out years ago, however:
They jumped the shark after the Outback Steakhouse commercial. It's one thing to license your music to advertise a steakhouse; it's quite another to take one of your popular songs, add a digeridoo and change the lyrics to be about steak.
Everything was downhill from there. Hissing Fauna was totally overdone and self-indulgent. I gave the next album one listen, and all I remember about it was that it sucked and that he got Janelle Monae to awkwardly sing the word 'nigger' on one of the track. And that it was canned and underproduced -- like Kevin Barnes' band is slowly quitting and now it's just him and his laptop singing along to the sound of his own multitracked voice.
Satanic Panic in the Attic deserves more love on this thread, though. Sunlandic Twins was their breakthrough, but the previous album is just one pop gem after another, from start to finish -- and there are a lot of tracks on that album.
Also their debut album is very good.
― 3×5, Saturday, 16 June 2012 05:42 (eleven years ago) link
The show was insane. So many weirdly becostumed dancers, crowd surfing and Kevin Barnes eyeliner. High energy. Much of the crowd just standing, waiting for the Flaming Lips but I felt like I floated out of there. Dance party in my front room now.
"it's like we weren't made for this world..but I wouldn't wanna meet someone who was"
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 17 June 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
And free! And I was back home exactly two hours after I'd left. Perfect dose of badass music!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 17 June 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
Really like the two new acoustic songs in this. (Don't know the story behind "Feminine Effects," the first song on it. It's on the outtakes/rarities album that came out last year.)
http://www.npr.org/event/music/169709211/of-montreal-tiny-desk-concert
― timellison, Thursday, 21 February 2013 05:42 (eleven years ago) link
"Feminine Effects" has been floating around for years - the version I have is Barnes solo on piano. First came out circa Hissing Fauna iirc.
― Roz, Thursday, 21 February 2013 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
What do people think of Daughter of Cloud, the out-takes album? For me I think it's okay but OM's last album has so totally ruined that band for me, I find it hard to even go back to things I used to love by the band.
― dog latin, Thursday, 21 February 2013 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― timellison, Friday, 22 February 2013 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
Liking Daughter of Cloud more than Paralytic Stalks.
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 22 February 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
gave up on this dude after whatever the one after "skeletal lamping" was (skeletal lamping ruled tho)
― k3vin k., Friday, 22 February 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
agreed.
could be a thread: "releases that ruined bands you previously loved"
― dog latin, Friday, 22 February 2013 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 22 February 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― c'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas le beurre (imago), Friday, 22 February 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
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
― silverfish, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― dog latin, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― timellison, Saturday, 2 March 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
New album in fall:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2013/04/of_montreal_kevin_barnes_interview_lousy_with_sylvianbriar.php
― timellison, Saturday, 27 April 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
deserves new thread!
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 April 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Sunday, 28 April 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Z S, Thursday, 12 September 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
...or will i have to listen to it myself and form my own opinion?!
*shivers*
― Z S, Thursday, 12 September 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
first impression: best since 'hissing fauna'. there are honest to goodness songs instead of overstuffed psych-disco collages
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
that would be a start
HF and SL are classics in my book
― sing, all ye shitizens of slumerica (k3vin k.), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
here is the thread for the new album: of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbria
― Bee OK, Friday, 13 September 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
that's weird, i even did a search for Sylvianbria and didn't find anything. i must have spelled it incorrectly.
― Z S, Friday, 13 September 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
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…
― goodoldneon, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Not a Joe Jackson cover? For shame!
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
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. .
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
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
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Roz, Thursday, 30 June 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
new album, this guy is a machine.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 June 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
this sounds better to me than the material on the previous album, looking forward to seeing it live
― Brad C., Thursday, 30 June 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
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
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 30 June 2016 12:22 (seven years ago) link
Innocence Reaches is now available for streaming on NPR First Listen
― Brad C., Friday, 5 August 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
There was a Tiny Desk Concert performance where he did a couple of really amazing solo guitar versions of Sylvianbriar songs!
― timellison, Thursday, 17 October 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-H9Vf2Wa1c
Ur Funof MontrealAlternativeExpected Jan 17, 2020
1. Peace To All Freaks2. Polyaneurism3. Get God's Attention By Being an Atheist4. Gypsy That Remains5. You've Had Me Everywhere6. Carmillas of Love7. Don't Let Me Die In America8. St. Sebastian9. Deliberate Self-harm Ha Ha10. 20th Century Schizofriendic Revengoid-man
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 14 November 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
Hey my birthday. Not like I’ve kept up with their recent releases though.
― Roz, Thursday, 14 November 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
based on the preview track, seems like a bad one! that's okay he does this. maybe it's going to strictly alternate from here on. the problemawoke sexpop/insane progge dialectic played out without resolution. maybe you cannot have one without the other. maybe I'm being reductive and spotting patterns which aren't there. maybe it's all different shades of insane problemawoke sexproggepop
― imago, Thursday, 14 November 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
I like the new logo :)
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 14 November 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
lmao at "20th Century Schizofriendic Revengoid-man"
I don't hate the single!
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
new anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3mOomxq-ec&list=OLAK5uy_k47gvF-4g2GKfl6Mddw85tqRt_fqmOa7g&index=7
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3mOomxq-ec&list=OLAK5uy_k47gvF-4g2GKfl6Mddw85tqRt_fqmOa7g
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
I love UR Fun. Best album since Hissing Fauna...?
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 1 February 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
it's like the 6th best since then
first 3 or 4 tracks good, never really recovers that level, decent album overall
― opden gnash (imago), Saturday, 1 February 2020 07:48 (four years ago) link
new one is pleasingly all over the shop, and Kcrraanggaanngg!! is an anthem
― imago, Friday, 5 March 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
WHO NEEDS A HEART WHEN A HEART DOES MURDERPISSING ON ITSELF IN HEAVEN'S GARBAGE
― imago, Friday, 5 March 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
so good. where r u ilm. is kevin yesterday's news already
― imago, Friday, 19 March 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
i got around to listening to this today. it did make an impression on me and will have to play again to see if i like it.
― Bee OK, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
this album is pearls before fuckin swine tbh
― imago, Saturday, 3 April 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
enjoyed this, looking forward to going on a walk tomorrow to it
― nxd, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
thank god lol
― imago, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
deffo stood out more than anything ive listened to since hissing, don't think i've repeated any of them albums
― nxd, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
Lousy With Sylvianbriar stood out like crazy whether you enjoyed it or not. I thought it was fantastic, but it was a big departure from their established sound.
― Evan, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
― imago, Friday, 19 March 2021 13:18 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― imago, Friday, 29 July 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
oh no, someone who torched their popularity ten years ago surely can't be making some of the most cutting-edge pop now, they must be really old and bad or something
listen to the new album you fools
― imago, Friday, 29 July 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
Okay fine I will
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 29 July 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
getting a White Is Relic twinned with a less obnoxious I Feel Safe With You, Trash vibe. No bangers. Good album
― PaulTMA, Friday, 29 July 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link