Last week, of Montreal released their 13th album, Aureate Gloom, and we heard the album’s opening track, “Bassem Sabry,” back in 2014. Today, the band release a video for the single, which was directed and produced by Ben Rouse, and features members of the band frolicking in a kind of psychedelic garden. Its absurdi...

'Snare Lustrous Doomings' will be limited to 3,000 copies

It’s easy to take Kevin Barnes for granted. Over thirteen full-lengths and just about as many changes in style, of Montreal have refused to sit still for almost two decades. Everyone has their favorite oM era — mine’s Satanic Panic through Skeletal Lamping — but, above all, the band has always possessed a ...

Less than a year after releasing Lousy With Sylvianbriar, Athens glam crew of Montreal return in a couple of months with the new LP Aureate Gloom. According to frontman Kevin Barnes, the album is both inspired by the “mid to late ’70s music scene in New York” and by his own recent divorce. The band [...]

Kevin Barnes has reinvented of Montreal’s sound many times over now, and for his next album, he’s channeled the “mid to late ’70s music scene in New York,” or so he told us in our interview with him from earlier this year. Aureate Gloom will be of Montreal’s thirteenth album, and it was...