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Artist: Of Montreal
Album: False Priest
Label: Polyvinyl
Playtime: 53:41 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.myspace.com/ofmontreal
Rip date: 2010-09-09
Street date: 2010-09-13
Size: 78.96 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 195 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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The brainchild of singer/guitarist Kevin Barnes, Of Montreal was among the
second wave of bands to emerge from the sprawling Elephant 6 collective. A
native of Athens, GA, Barnes was inspired to form the euphoric indie pop
group in the wake of a broken romance with a woman from Montreal. He signed
with Bar/None Records while living in Florida, subsequently moved to
Cleveland and Minneapolis in search of compatible bandmates, and finally
returned home to collaborate with bassist Bryan Helium (also a member of
Athens' Elf Power) and drummer Derek Almstead.
Of Montreal's debut album, Cherry Peel, appeared in mid-1997, followed that
autumn by an EP entitled The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower.
From the start, the band buoyed its bright, flamboyant indie pop sound with
elements of psychedelia and vaudeville; Of Montreal's earliest records also
exhibited a lo-fi sound that bordered on twee pop, although the band steadily
shed those influences throughout the early 2000s. After Helium left the group
in 1998 to focus on Elf Power full-time, Almstead assumed bass duties, while
keyboardist Dottie Alexander and drummer Jamie Huggins both joined the
lineup. Nevertheless, the band's second album, 1998's The Bedside Drama: A
Petite Tragedy, was recorded primarily as a Barnes solo project.
Multi-instrumentalist A.C. Forrester signed on for 1999's sublime The Gay
Parade, while the retrospective album Horse & Elephant Eatery followed in the
spring of 2000. The group continued with the release of Coquelicot Asleep in
the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse in April 2001 and Aldhils Arboretum
in September of 2002, both of which were issued by the Georgia-based label
Kindercore Records. With the subsequent folding of Kindercore, the departures
of multi-instrumentalist Andy Gonzales and Almstead, and Barnes' marriage,
2003 proved to be an up and down year for the group. Barnes' newly-minted
wife, Nina, joined Of Montreal's lineup as the group signed to Polyvinyl
Records and delivered one of their most celebrated records, Satanic Panic in
the Attic, in early 2004.
The following year found Barnes exploring a bouncier, synth-driven avenue
with the release of Sunlandic Twins, but things began to get complicated in
his personal life at the same time. He and his wife moved to Norway for the
birth of their baby. Deprived of familiar touchstones, Barnes fell into a
deep depression and, upon returning to the States, continued to travel
progressively downhill. He and his wife separated for a time, and she
returned to her family in Norway with their new daughter. Through the
emotional turmoil, Barnes concocted what was to be his darkest, most
personal, and ambitious album yet -- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? --
in 2007. Arriving one year later, Skeletal Lamping furthered that ambitious
sound by emphasizing Barnes' outrageous alter ego, "Georgie Fruit," whose
influence pushed the album toward funk and prog territory. An Eluardian
Instance (Jon Brion Remix EP) followed in early 2009, featuring five remixed
tracks from the previous album. Of Montreal's tenth studio release, False
Priest, arrived the following year.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. I Feel Ya' Strutter ( 3:41)
02. Our Riotous Defects ( 5:15)
03. Coquet Coquette ( 3:44)
04. Godly Intersex ( 3:31)
05. Enemy Gene ( 3:37)
06. Hydra Fancies ( 3:25)
07. Like a Tourist ( 4:02)
08. Sex Karma ( 4:01)
09. Girl Named Hello ( 4:14)
10. Famine Affair ( 3:49)
11. Casualty of You ( 2:59)
12. Around the Way ( 4:33)
13. You Do Mutilate? ( 6:50)
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