Of Montreal Ride Skeletal Lamping

Kevin Barnes' gleeful psych-funk jamboree Of Montreal broke out of the twee-pop underground in a big way with 2006's Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? The eighth album for the Athens, Georgia-based collective was, certainly, their first to have ever bothered Billboard. Debuting at #72 on the big-boys chart, the ridiculously enjoyable disc showed Of Montreal crossing over to find a whole new audience for Barnes' cross-dressing retro-pop mayhem.

Polyvinyl Records have recently announced details of Of Montreal's much awaited follow-up. LP#9 shall be entitled Skeletal Lamping, and promises to lure even more listeners into Barnes' lurid lair. Barnes has described the record as an attempt "to create something that was, in turns, enraging, joyous, discomforting, playful, lovely, unpleasant, freaky, [and] mesmeric."

Due to be released on October 7, the disc holds the eternal promise of the unknown. And interest is only piqued by Barnes' sentiments on the authoring of his forthcoming work. "I am so bored with art that makes sense and 'works,'" he says. "I wanted to do something that didn't 'work'."

Skeletal Lamping Track List
1. "Nonpareil of Favor"
2. "Wicked Wisdom"
3. "For Our Elegant Caste"
4. "Touched Something's Hollow"
5. "An Eluardian Instance"
6. "Gallery Piece"
7. "Women's Studies Victims"
8. "St.Exquisite's Confessions"
9. "Triphallus, to Punctuate!"
10. "And I've Seen a Bloody Shadow"
11. "Plastis Wafers"
12. "Death Is Not a Parallel Move"
13. "Beware Our Nubile Miscreants"
14. "Mingusings"
15. "Id Engager"

Photo © [Jim Newberry]