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- Date Released: April 12, 2005
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Polyvinyl Record Co
Psych-pop masters get their groove on.
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We Say...
Coming off their highly praised seventh album, the 2004 psych-pop masterpiece Satanic Panic in the Attic, Of Montreal was confronted with a (not unwelcome) problem: how to follow-up? The surprising solution: synths and cheeky dance smarts. Unapologetic Elephant 6 harmonies and kooky conceptualism remain, but The Sunlandic Twins is less Brian Wilson, more Afrobeat boogie and Can propulsion smacked wacky by a post-Eno David Byrne. "The Party's Crashing Us" is the essence of this: leader Kevin Barnes' too-smart-for-pop verbosity turns sincere for love while a dozen disco melodies vie for space around the bass. They all end up winning.
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They Say...
Kevin Barnes' seventh Of Montreal album continues in his traditional vein of toying and teasing our memories of '60s pop, fed through whichever other fad or fashion most appeals to him at the time. In this instance, it's "21st century ADD electro-cinematic avant disco," which is a deliciously protracted way of saying quirky rhythms, lush harmonics, and a warm spot on the same side of the bed that the Polyphonic Spree occasionally share. The most deceptive angle to the album probably has to do with the titles -- it's unlikely whether the most obtuse mind could ever imagine tapping its toes to something called "Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)," while "Forecast Fascist Future" simply shouldn't sound like a British Beach Boys, pebble-dashed with Ray Davies' finest harmonic daydreams, and then piped into a nursery where the infant Frank Zappa lays sleeping. Elsewhere, "Our Spring Is Sweet, Not Fleeting" may be little more than a minute long, but you live through great swathes of Rosemary's Baby while it's playing. To harp on about the "obvious" precedents that aging ears can pick out of Of Montreal's sonic stew, however, is to overlook all that is so savagely entertaining about their music (plus, it makes them sound like a High Llamas tribute band, which is unfair as well). Rather, Sunlandic Twins is an album to leave playing while you're going about your daily business. Then see how quickly you discover its 13 tracks burrowing so deeply into your skull that it's as though you'd lived with its jerking, burbling, and never less than transcendental swirlings for ever.
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Requiem For O.M.M.2 |
2:21 |
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| 02. | |
I Was Never Young |
3:32 |
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| 03. | |
Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games |
4:17 |
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| 04. | |
Forecast Fascist Future |
4:24 |
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| 05. | |
So Begins Our Alabee |
4:17 |
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| 06. | |
Our Spring Is Sweet Not Fleeting |
1:04 |
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| 07. | |
The Party's Crashing Us |
4:55 |
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| 08. | |
Knight Rider |
1:08 |
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| 09. | |
I Was A Landscape In Your Dream |
3:07 |
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| 10. | |
Death Of A Shade Of A Hue |
2:56 |
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| 11. | |
Oslo In The Summertime |
3:23 |
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| 12. | |
October Is Eternal |
4:00 |
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| 13. | |
The Repudiated Immortals |
2:20 |
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| 14. | |
Bonus Track: Art Snob Solutions |
3:25 |
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| 15. | |
Bonus Track: The Actor Approbrium |
2:38 |
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| 16. | |
Bonus Track: Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks |
3:30 |
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| 17. | |
Bonus Track: Everyday Feels Like Sunday |
3:18 |
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17 Total Tracks, 54:35 Total Length
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Credits
- David Barnes - Artwork // Nathan Barnes - Vocals // Of Montreal - Main Performer // Glenn Schick - Mastering // Heather McIntosh - Cello // Kevin Barnes - Arranger // Kevin Barnes - Producer // Kevin Barnes - Engineer // Kevin Barnes - Mixing // Robbie Lowie - Layout Design // Per Willy - Trumpet
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