Of Montreal
May 9, 2013
Echoplex
Photos by Chris Molina
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theviolenceofhandcrafteddolls:
I’m so happy to say that we’ve just finished a new album! It is titled “lousy with sylvianbriar”. We recorded it in my home studio on a 24 track tape machine. It is pretty different from Paralytic Stalks. Definitely more G Parsons than K Penderecki this time around. I wrote most of the songs while on a self imposed isolation experiment in San Francisco earlier this year, and we recorded it, over a two week period, about a month after i got back to Athens. I was influenced by the poetry of Sylvia Plath (hence the reference in the title), plus artists like the Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Flying Burrito Brothers…I can’t wait to share it with you! It won’t come out until the Fall though so I just have to be patient.
Of Montreal just finished its new album. Frontman and creative nerve-center Kevin Barnes tells Crossfade that he wrote the whole…
WATCH: Of Montreal - “Sails, Hermaphroditic” (NSFW)
of Montreal like sports, but as you’d expect, not the kind that make any sort of sense. “Sails, Hermaphroditic” sees two gangs battle each other over the pretense of sport, while occasionally daydreaming about funky psychedelic sex. At the end, a hair metal band shows up. Pretty well suited for the song’s stream-of-consciousness funk vibe.