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└──┤ RELEASE │ ┌───────────┐ │
└─────────┘ │ iNTERNALS ├──┘
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├ Street Date ├───┤ 03-06-2004
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├ Rip Date ├───┤ 01-05-2005
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├ Album ├───┤ Satanic Panic In The Attic
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├ Artist ├───┤ Of Montreal └──────────────┘
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├ Ripped by ├───┤ Busa
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├ Genre ├───┤ Indie
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├ Tracks ├───┤ 14
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├ Size ├───┤ 52,4 MB
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│ Track List │
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┴
01 04:26 Disconnect The Dots
02 04:04 Lysergic Bliss
03 02:00 Will You Come And Fetch Me
04 02:19 My British Tour Diary
05 03:04 Rapture Rapes The Muses
06 03:13 Eros' Entropic Tundra
07 02:21 City Bird
08 02:48 Erroneous Escape Into Erik Eckles
09 02:41 Chrissie Kiss The Corpse
10 03:43 Your Magic Is Working
11 03:26 Climb The Ladder
12 02:31 How Lester Lost His Wife
13 03:11 Spike The Senses
14 03:54 Vegan In Furs
Total time: 43:41 min
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│ Release Notes │
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┴
From the opening synth handclaps and
dual lead guitar harmonies of
"Disconnect the Dots," the first
song on Satanic Panic in the Attic,
you know you are in for a different
Of Montreal. Working on his own,
save for a few helping hands on
occasional strings and vocals, Kevin
Barnes has crafted Of Montreal's
most focused and powerful sounding
record yet. Fans of the
bursting-to-the-seams arrangements
of the past may feel a bit let down
by the stripped-down sound at first,
but once you get past that feeling,
the beautiful melodies and
thrilling, immediate sound of the
record are sure to reel you in.
Besides, it isn't like this is a
Matchbox Twenty record. Barnes is
still as surreal lyrically and
musically inventive as ever. Instead
of treading closely to the
conventions of the Elephant 6
chamber psych sound, Barnes expands
his musical reach quite impressively
to encompass disco-funk ("My British
Tour Diary," which comes replete
with drum breaks and cowbell; the
lovely "Spike the Senses"), hard
rock (the driving "How Lester Lost
His Wife"), Beachwood Sparks-style
cosmic country ("Erroneous Escape
Into Erik Eckles"), power pop of the
East Coast dB's variety (the gushing
and surprisingly personal love song
"Your Magic Is Working"), well-done
Beach Boys homage ("Climb the
Ladder"), and acoustic balladry (the
wonderful "City Bird," which has one
of the band's sweetest melodies and
strips the sound all the way down to
acoustic guitar and multitracked
vocal harmonies). The last song on
the record ("Vegan in Furs") even
manages a breathtaking fusion of
Afro-pop, disco, and freakbeat. The
tougher sound and punchier
arrangements also help keep the more
whimsical lyrical flights from
crashing (see the necrophiliac
anthem "Chrissy Kiss the Corpse" or
the goofy "My British Tour Diary").
Where the sticky sweetness of the
band may have been a touch cloying
once, now the sugar smacks you right
in the head like pop music at its
best does. Satanic Panic in the
Attic is probably the first Of
Montreal record that doesn't sound
like you need a special decoder ring
to figure out what is going on, the
first record that you can imagine
people outside of the Elephant 6 web
ring buying and actually listening
to with pleasure. To be able to
create a record as open-hearted and
musically direct and great as this
without sacrificing much of the
inspiration and sound that first
made the band worth hearing is quite
a feat. -Tim Sendra amg
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│ TRi : Pellet Presents │
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