/mu/'s thoughts on Of Montreal

It's alright. It's pretty gay though.

gay meme band that does radio pop music for people who think theyre eclectic

DUDE
QUEER
LMAO

>2016
>Appropriating culture

I seriously hope you guys aren't doing this

A really great band (cum project of one guy (pun not intended)) that has a pretty vast and eclectic discography, consisting mainly of hits rather than misses.

>>61993403
unoriginal

boy your comment reeks of reddit whiteness,
>>61993733

see >>61993512

>>61993403
I like The Gay Parade, haven't listened to the rest of their discography.

Love them so much but I have to pretend to hate them because my tripfriends will kick me out of their skype group ;__;

>>61993403
>Of Montreal
>They're not from Montreal

Fuck off

>>61993748
Oh, cool man yeah I'll be sure to change my opinion now sorry

>>61993748
>uses "reddit whiteness" as an insult
>confirms himself as a tumblr faggot in the process

>>61993512
yeah, this.

its just basic pop for people who think theyre above ther radio. kind of like the wes anderson of music.

>>61993918
wow you're a dumbass dude

good band hissing fauna is a contemporary masterpiece. Kevin poured his soul into that album and many others

I like them a lot! Their early stuff is okay (though Cherry Peel is great) but Hissing Fauna and Skeletal Lamping, as well as False Priest, are stellar. New stuff is eh.

I was very uninterested in them, but a girlfriend dragged me to a show and it was fantastic.

>>61993972
>Kevin poured his soul in that album and many others

yeah, does that somehow elevate it above the majority of pop music?

>>61993972

AHAHHAHAHAHA weakest bait of 2016

>>61993918
listen to paralytic stalks

>>61994037
thats cute. its still pop music with a surface level 'weirdness' that is pretty normal on the inside.

>>61994032
not b8 is a genuinely amazing album. u suck

>>61994032
me again
You are an idiot

Is there any band like them but it's cool and acceptable on /mu/

I really want to fit in on here

>>61994220
its easy. everytime someone says an album is great/why doesnt others talk about it, etc- if the album cover is pretty, make sure to put it on your topsters. 85% of mu does this, you'll notice it from now on.

>>61993918
>just basic pop
Have you truly heard enough of their music to claim this?
Albums like Coquelicot, Skeletal Lamping and Paralytic Stalks fly directly in the face of that. They're pop-oriented at their core and tons of their work is based around strong choruses and overall catchiness, due to the early influence of Elephant 6 and the scene's collective fawning for the works of psych-pop of the past, but they swiftly abandoned traditional pop structure early on in their career and more often than not choose to experiment both sonically and in through their performances, not settling on reproducing the same experience more than they feel necessary.

They're absolutely a pop band, but it's not fair at all to write them off as "just basic" pop.

fuck the haters
they have a lot of good albums

>>61994245
/thread

>>61994245

yeah, i have. i just got some pleasant pop music with enough 'weirdness' to be eclectic by normie standards.

imo skeletal lamping is a true achievement. i've never taken the time to get fully into their whole discog though. i just keep listening to skeletal lamping.

seen em live once too. not a bad show. the theatrics aren't the best part though. some of their musicianship is impressive.

>>61994487
It really doesn't seem fair to dismiss so much experimentation in sound through a constantly evolving choice of instrumentation, the chasing of perpetually shifting influences and their approaches to song structure and broader album concepts.

Something so overwrought as Paralytic Stalks or Coquelicot cannot with any real conviction be boiled down to just being pop music under the guise of being weird and quirky. The entire second half of the former is not pleasant pop music, while the first half is a blend of (admittedly often conventionally pleasant) glam and psych rock. The latter album is pleasant in its use of saccharine vocal harmonies and many of the songs are short little psych-pop tracks - but it's 22 tracks long, and surrounding those conventional (but not "normie" by any real standard) pieces are blends of spoken word, longer, structurally fragmented songs with some fantastic production techniques, all culminating in an 18 minute long piano piece.
Both albums are completely worlds apart in overall sound and show a vast evolution into something knew, testament to the reality of and embracing of their supposedly shallow 'weirdness'.

>>61995239
/thread

>>61993804
>not knowing how the band got there name
Fooking cuck

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Has anyone heard the stuff Kevin's posted that he's working on at the moment?
There's actual singing again

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>>61993577

>>61995618
Link?

>>61995772
https://www.instagram.com/p/9F1DXwLjom/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BArIFg3Ljr-/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAottuULjhE/

Actually though there are more snippets up there now and a lot just still sound like the regular false priests/ lousy kind of vocals

>>61993403
why don;t they have nipples?

>>61996113
its a sfw board

>>61993512
>>61993733
>eclectic

is this the hot new meme?

>>61993403
Gay

One of my favourite bands. I dig them.

great band

Chicks love them

>>61994028
Certainly makes it feel less empty

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really liked cherry peel on first listen, was bored on second, hated it on third

never looked back

>>61994028
Better songwriting.

my art teacher is friends with the lead singer..
well thats what she says

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>>61993403
They look like The Village People.

>>61993403
The band that fag-hags love more than they love being sexually ignored by gay men.

Wtf is with this thread? Hissing Fauna is a great album

>>61997332
It's a great pop album, do you honestly think /mu/ would recognise it?

Ariel Pink and Bob Drake replaced them
because of Montreal blew their load in 2008

can't stomach any of their 2010+ albums
There's something about them that makes them exhausting to listen to

>>61997386
/mu/'s generally always held Hissing Fauna in high regard

Where the fuck is the left guy's navel?!

Fun music for good times.
Basically the modern B-52's with a smidge of Bowie in there.

>>61993436
>>61993512
>>61993577
>>61996235
>>61997298
Sure is pretty Middle School in here

Let's pretend we don't exist

>>61997395
I don't see how unless you just haven't actually listened to them. Paralytic stalks is really tense and heady sure but the last 2 records were very dumbed down for them. Aureate gloom isn't very good but slyvianbriar is hard to find fault with.

>>61993403
>of Montreal
>good

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funny, Kevin. I was literally about to post an of Montreal hate thread and was going to use this exact picture, only to find that a thread already existed with LITERALLY THE SAME FILE

>>62000403
so what faults do you find with aureate gloom?

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We are Scientists general

>>62000907
its fucking trash. "Aluminum Crown" like hahahahah fuck

>>61993403

I HAVE A SECRET TO TELL YOU ABOUT OF MONTREA'S VERY OWN KEVIN BARNES...

>>62000949
guess you just don't like thrash

>>61997298
thank you
>>61997243
of course Kevin is friends with some random, dark, warehouse tier dwelling musty room not real art teacher

>>62001004
>thrash
more like trash

>>62000907
It's got a handful of strong tracks but in general Kevin's lyricism was more heavy-handed than it's ever been and the instrumentals suffered for being recorded in just 3 weeks. Sylvianbriar was procedurally a callback to 60s rock too but he just handicapped himself too much this time around. I realize that the rough lyrics most likely have everything to do with the poor state of his personal relationships but it was just hard to listen to - and this is coming from someone who thinks that paralytic stalks and to a lesser extent hissing fauna are lyrically brilliant.

>>62000892
>>62000924
>>62000949
cancer

>>62000967
give it to me

>>62001061
he gets a little thrashy on the guitar there for a minute

>>62001075
>the instrumentals suffered for being recorded in just 3 weeks
how so

I think compositionally this album throws in everything but the kitchen sink

which is in a good way but I can understand how that can be jarring to some.

>>62001075
I think the lyrics are some of Kevin's best yet.

>>62001191
I wish I'd been following them more closely but he didnt include the lyric sheet so they always got put on the back burner for me. What does jump out at me though I've really loved a lot though.

>masturbating your father's pain
what did he mean by this?

>>62001213
I'm not really sure what it means in the context of the song but by itself is sounds like she's intentionally causing her father pain and getting pleasure from it.

>>62001134
On paper the harsher guitar work sounds like a good idea but it sounds very lazily done to me. This isn't true of every track of course, but when it's bad, it's pretty bad. For what it's worth, I'm not much of a led zeppelin or black sabbath fan and those are two of the bands I felt that kev was replicating in places. It's a really natural progression from sylvianbriar, which is interesting, but really I just wish all the tracks were up to the standard of empyrean abatoir and bassem sabry

>>62001191
the line between interesting expressions of negative feelings and just being whiny is pretty blurred but this album was the first time I ever thought kevin crossed it

>>62001230
>but by itself
thats basically how I took in the album lyrically. Its not like its really that hard to understand what he's saying but without the liner notes each song as a whole doesn't come together as easily. I almost always listened to it without internet available.

>>62001247
>but when it's bad, it's pretty bad
for example?

I've always insisted the album is challenging which is why I love it so much

>>62001247
I guess you just don't like angry, venomous Kevin like I do. But I really appreciate the blunt honesty he brought.

>>62001230
>she's intentionally causing her father pain and getting pleasure from it.
seems right

>>61993769
Hissing fauna is their best album anon

>>62001324
>angry, venomous
probably why I like it so much

its kinda hardcore in a way

>>62001298
last rites and aluminum crown are my least favorite tracks but apollyon of blue room's instrumental is probably the best example of what I was talking about. It's so incredibly lame. At first I couldn't believe that something so cheesy and bland came from oM. It sounds like something you'd hear a beginner rock guitarist playing in a music store.

>>62001324
ye, renew the plaintiff is one of my favorite tracks of his

>>62001400
>apollyon of blue room
just the first 35 seconds alone seemed somewhat complex.

>you're a child of neglect but you turned out ok
one of my favorite lines followed by a great bass line in context

Is the periodic staccato delivery what seems cheesy, lame and bland to you?

>>62001502
*and by complex I just mean that the first 35 seconds contains 4 or 5 different phrases

>>62001502
Honestly anon, you can use as many apologetic words as you want and I can respond with more and more criticism but the fact of the matter is just that I'm a really big fan of oM who usually listens to these albums hundreds of times and I'm disappointed with this one.

>>62001575
well its just a matter of fact how many phrases a song contains and I was asking about staccato because I can only assume this is whats sounding cheesy to you. yeah its kinda dancey and silly at times.

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Met Kevin Barnes at a solo show in Kamalzoo Michigan. It was at a small church and I got their really early and was able to listen to him preform some Bowie songs for sound check, just me him and the audio guy. Cherished memory, as he complemented my shirt and later that night be signed my copy of his documentary and I got to listen to him talk about Bowie, this was 2014. He was really demure, but chill, no crew or did everything himself

Literally the best day of the whole year since I also made out with a cutie and was offered sex.

Clip form that show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UlkCqoA4sI

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Post your rare Kevins, trying to build my collection.

Also does this mean Kevin is the new Bowie since he is the only musician the genre and style shifts so frequently with great success?

>>62001831
pretty fucking cool

>It was at a small church
>224 West 16th street was our cathedral

Listening to Paralytic Stalks for the first time in a couple months, I almost forgot how amazing this record is. Tell me, /mu/. Why did this album receive such relatively lukewarm reviews when it could easily go toe-to-toe with Hissing Fauna for best OM album? Im surprised this album wasn't beloved by the indie community

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>>62001914
He's such a cutie

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>>62001949
Makes sense. There's absolutely nothing hip about it.

>>62001914
It's a skin deep comparison. For now, anyways. I hope Kevin's music never ends up sounding like Bowie's

>>62001914
He would be the new Bowie if it weren't for the fact that their fanbase has been dwindling ever since Skeletal Lamping. It's sad, really. Sure, there were some not-great albums, but they've completely fallen out of favor with the indie scene (at least, that's how I see it). And I dont think that's fair, because Kevin's released some gems since Hissing Fauna. But so it goes, I guess
>>62001930
224 West 16th street is actually in NY, where a lot of Aureate Gloom was written. Incidentally, the neighborhood it's located in is called Chelsea, which explains the line in that same song
>Now that I am free and almost alone down in Chelsea, I feel better

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Have some of my fav videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgM8VLrdKo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf5PFBLl6BU&index=75&list=PLO6eam7hv0T9jyCvoHIIL5NmqVsu-qOJP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNp9Y7RIcQU&index=50&list=PLO6eam7hv0T9jyCvoHIIL5NmqVsu-qOJP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS0lCeqbEH0&index=46&list=PLO6eam7hv0T9jyCvoHIIL5NmqVsu-qOJP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89gPvk_6d5Q&index=11&list=PLO6eam7hv0T9jyCvoHIIL5NmqVsu-qOJP

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I really wish he would a country album, but the instagram snippets from his upcoming has me hyped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_I8ai2ZqE

>>61993403
boring

>>62001949
>Listening to Paralytic Stalks for the first time in a couple months
wow, you sure do plan what you listen to early, huh?

I like the Outback Steakhouse song

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>>62001949
It wasn't as indie or "dance-able" also the 70's vibe goes over most kids heads.

>>62002108
You know what I mean m8

>>61994245
>>61995239
What do you write for Pitchfork or something? Fuck off with your eclectic try-hard vocabulary.

>>62002263
Does it bother you that fans of a band famous for their complex wordplay and lyrics would attract individuals who can appreciate the the depth of the English language.

I bet you listen to Kanye and his 300 romans.

Other people can be so disappointing
I need to spend more time alone

>>62002308
omg such eclecticism

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>>62002309
Seriously all his lyrics are pure poetry put to a tune. I just wish he would put out a poem book or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW0uI-SekKg&list=PLO6eam7hv0T9jyCvoHIIL5NmqVsu-qOJP&index=64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4cYsXFSDi0

>>62002348
quality post mate

>>62002136
I've got nudes of him onstage at this show. Wearing this exact outfit but with the skirt hiked up to show his swangalang.

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>>62002365
tfw no horse cock

>>62002381
Gotta hand it to the little twerp, he's packin a swinger. Music's 'kay too.

>>62002348
He's right m8. there are plenty of bands out there that put out the sort of shallow slightly off-color pop weirdness and they sound very little like oM

>>62002133
this was back when they were in favor with the indie kiddos and the backlash from the outback steakhouse thing was hilarious.

Okay, let's have a discussion

How much influence has Of Montreal had? Obviously albums like Hissing Fauna are loved, but is there any noticeable influence Of Montreal has had on groups, subgenres, scenes, etc?

>>62002433
I wish there was more stuff out there noticeably inspired by skeletal lamping to paralytic stalks era of Montreal

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Genuinely my favorite band of all time. I've hung out with Kevin after shows in New Orleans many times. Really nice, approachable and interesting guy who likes gin and tonics. Can't wait for the new album, the sneak peaks on instagram sound really good.

Also,

Satanic Panic > Hissing Fauna > Skeletal Lamping > Paralytic Stalks > False Priest > Lousy > Daughter of Cloud > Sunlandic Twins > Cherry Peel > Aureate Gloom > Conquelicot > Gay Parade > Aldhils > Bedside Drama

imo

>>62002381
I've seen it. This picture is misleading.

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>>62002433
Kevin Barnes is an oddity in that his style is hard to copy most because it is ever changing. The only real constant is the unique lyrical style.

I would argue some singers like Janelle monae tryed to inmate his style, but usually its very direct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LzIoqUfOBI&list=RD6LzIoqUfOBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNA1N0owKdE

As far as influence Kevin just produced the new pillar point album coming out soon and it can be heard in the mixing, and even the vocals (as he provides backup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UxO01gG5z4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UxO01gG5z4

2gay4me even though I am a faggot

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>Beside at the bottom

Why does this get so much hate, it is literally a more coherent cherry peel. Although they are also my fav band and even his worst is still very good.

Most OM fans haven't heard it, buts its as good, if not the best of Kevin's early stuff

>twee, light pop, 60's feel, earliest OM out there
Got this as a part of the Kickstarter documentary there making, I hope someone enjoys this, as their my favorite band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tY6TUVBKMM (YT: of Montreal - Drachnids (2:35))Click to play video inline. (embed) (YT: of Montreal - Drachnids (2:35))Click to play video inline. (YT: of Montreal - Drachnids (2:35)

https://mega.co.nz/#F!LIAnASBI!W4mOXwHqOwEOdoy3UvTNzg

>>62002524
That was the idea when I made it

>>61993403
I love Hissing Fauna, haven't gotten into much else of their stuff.

>>62002263
>writes a well articulated opinion on a band.
>fuck off to pitchfork lmao try hard
>none of the words he used were above a seventh grade reading level

I'm done with mu

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>>62002616
Of Montreal - Snare Lustrous Doomings (2015) [320]
>Psych rock, psych pop, indie pop

https://mega.co.nz/#!dtxUkJJT!_v9SPP4xurhPbWloh3mPIpH-vgGvLwKnG84SDBK31gg

This is a live album RSD exclusive; the vinyl included a DL code so I figured why not upload

>>62002536
That chart's actually not bad. It's just a shame lousy is hidden behind that complete abortion of a record

Genuinely made me realise how good music can be.