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Photo by Kathryn YuWith the glue still drying on those wacky Skeletal Lamping sticker sets, Of Montreal frontguy Kevin Barnes is already starting to patch together ideas for its successor. Speaking with Rolling Stone's Rock Daily blog, Barnes discussed where he'd like to take the next Of Montreal album. Barnes said, "I kind of want to go in a slightly different direction, experiment, try to look for a new spark, inspiration."But isn't he always doing that?Oh, but then there's this: "What I want to do now is slightly noisier. It's sort of abstract in my mind, but right now what I'll create will be mesmeric and kind of physical music. Try to create music that you have a physical reaction to. Try to touch you on a level that's not strictly intellectual but more physical, and that's not to say you'll dance to it."The music-so-good-you'll-puke gambit apparently sprang from a memorable trip down the streets of London in a taxi. Barnes told Rock Daily, "The cab driver was listening to this music, it was really loud and it was the coolest thing I've ever heard. He didn't speak English so I couldn't talk to him about it, but the music made me feel queasy but in a totally different level."I realize I'm asking the obvious question here, but... you sure that wasn't just the driving itself?While he connects those particular dots, Kevin's got another project to see through: his collaboration with MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden under the Blikk Fang moniker. They apparently have about 20 minutes of music put together from early last year, and are talking to Jon Brion about a possible collaboration. Barnes claims "the stuff we've done so far is sort of a soulful prog. It's probably gonna be a pretty schizophrenic, crazy album." How, uh, unprecedented?There's also an Of Montreal DVD in the works. Barnes told Rock Daily, "We've filmed two shows, a show from L.A. from last year's Hissing Fauna tour and we filmed one a month ago in Atlanta, so we do have plans to release a pretty comprehensive DVD with all the videos and two full live performances and documentary material as well."Soon, though, you can get a glimpse of the real thing, as Of Montreal take to the road for all those dates we mentioned the other day. Well, all but one, anyway; the band's Berlin show on January 20 has been cancelled, so they can jet off to London to share a stage with Franz Ferdinand. Now there's a best-dressed contest waiting to happen.Do note that the band hits "Letterman" December 18, and that collection of Jon Brion remixes is due digitally January 6 and January 27 on CD and LP from Polyvinyl.read more
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of Montreal: – “Feminine Effects” Video (Stereogum Premiere)
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Earlier this year of Montreal shared a split-side with Deerhoof, a release that yielded the band’s “Feminine Effects.” It’s a song that has an alternate version where singer Rebecca Cash takes lead, and today of Montreal dropped an official video to accompany that take. Watch their mystic interpretation be...
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of Montreal: – “Dumb Acre”
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Here’s another of Montreal rarity unleashed as part of a band-sponsored Kickstarter campaign, a venture that will fund a documentary called Song Dynasties about the band’s history. Earlier, we heard “Propaganda” and now here’s “Dumb Acre,” a surfy early rocker. Hear it below. ...
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of Montreal: – “Propaganda”
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Filmmakers Jason Miller and Craig Zobel recently spearheaded a Kickstarter to raise money for an of Montreal documentary called Song Dynasties, a film that uses live footage and early of Montreal camcorder tapes to tell the band’s story. As part of their fundraising campaign, they’ll be offering a 14-song LP of rarities as a ...
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of Montreal: – “Sails Hermaphorditic” Video (NSFW)
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The video for “Sails Hermaphroditic,” a song from of Montreal’s new rarities collection Daughter Of Cloud, switches back and forth between a brutal good-times rumble in the middle of a park — one that involves Jell-O and a referee for some reason — and a naked psychedelic dance party — ...
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of Montreal: – “Our Love Is Senile” (Stereogum Premiere)
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Athens, Georgia art freaks of Montreal will release a rarities compilation called Daughter Of Cloud next month, one comprised of rare and unreleased tracks from the past five years. Below, we’ve got a relatively straightforward sparkler from the band called “Our Love Is Senile.” Daughter Of Cloud is out 10/23 on Pol...
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