Wednesday, January 25, 2012
New Music Stream Of Montreal's new record
Posted by Gabe Vodicka @gabevodicka on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:56 PM
A couple months ago, Athens psych-pop overlords/noted costume enthusiasts Of Montreal unveiled the first single from their upcoming studio release, the sure-to-be-inscrutable Paralytic Stalks. Today, SPIN hosts a "First Spin" for that record, complete with a full album stream and deliciously overworked analysis of each song from Kevin Barnes himself.
As CL's Chad Radford noted last month, Paralytic Stalks seems a more darkly perplexing outing from these guys than we've heard in maybe ever. (And that's saying something, given Barnes' manic depressive musical history.) The songs veer wildly from the familiar Bowie-funk that's characterized recent Of Montreal to some sort of blown out Flaming Lips style bad-acid rock vibe and way beyond.
Like all Barnes' records, Paralytic Stalks is dense and deeply considered; more than the others, though, it seems a true amalgam of the band's history. There is respective attention paid to the early jangle-pop that put the band on the map, the darkwave synth of its later days and, as suggested above, hints of some new flavors as well. It's weird! And good!
Paralytic Stallks emerges in physical form on February 7 via Polyvinyl. Grab dat.
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This dovetails excellently with CL's cocaine coverage this week.
This band needs to keep slowing down and tightening up.
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