of Montreal

[Blitzkrieg1701]

This band has been slowly inching towards mainstream popularity for a while now (you probably heard them on that Outback Steakhouse commercial), so I was wondering: are there any fans around here?

[Kkun]

It's funny that you would make this thread, because I just picked up Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? a couple of days ago, and I'm digging it pretty well. "She's a Rejector" is probably my favorite song on the record. I like their sound. I know they have a bunch of other records, and I'd like to get a couple of those, too.

[chibiphonebooth]

All the baby spiders in the nursery
waving to each other clinging to their mothers
and smile at their dads who say
"Now that's a clever lad"

One particular spider, who's parents had named Ira, fell out of his mother's arms and became lost inside the giant insect hospital. Since mother spiders give birth to so many babies at one time it is exceedingly difficult to keep track of all of them and sometimes a baby will get lost without it's mother ever being aware of its absence. Ira was just such a case. He crawled about for hours crying but his mother couldn't hear him for Ira was a mute. This is where the story gets interesting.

He opened his mouth and discovered a lake in a crater on his tongue. He was thirsty so he drank from the lake. This proved to be a fatal mistake as the lake was really a cake filled with poisonous snakes, and Ira died.

A nurse discovered dead baby Ira and sank with grief. She gently lifted him up to her breast and carried him weeping to the head nurse to see if any baby spiders had been reported missing. The head nurse checked her missing baby spider file and told her that "No, no missing baby spiders have been reported." The nurse holding dead baby Ira then asked if they could have a funeral for him. The head nurse, being a very caring grasshopper, agreed that that would be the proper thing to do. So they dug a small hole near a yellow tulip, held a brief but moving requiem and with great sadness buried baby Ira.

Miraculously, Ira was quickly reincarnated as a wild horse on the far off planet called Nearly. on Nearly, wild horses hold the majority in the senate and Ira has discovered pudding. His favorite is the kind without raisins.

All the baby spiders in the nursery
waving to each other clinging to their mothers
and smile at their dads who say
"Now that's a clever lad"



probably the best song EVAR.

[Blitzkrieg1701]

I guess that's a yes!!!

To be honest, I felt like Hissing Fauna was a slight step down from the most recent albums, but that's seems to just be me. (Sunlandic Twins is my personal favorite, I highly recommend seeking it out next)

[~IYQ]

Sorry to bump something so old--

I love Of Montreal, but I'm actually more fond of Cherry Peel and their Dustin Hoffman ____s stuff than the newer. But I think I also heard some newer material went back to that style? I dunno. Anyway. Yeah....Of Montreal. Good stuff.

[Puguni]

Yaaaa! Probably the first song I've heard from them is Wraith Pinned to the Mist pluswhateverelsethetitlehad. They're AWESOME and fresh still, which is pretty cool. I like their old songs and new, like Penelope, Airplane, Pancakes, Gronlandic Edit and Heimdalsgate like a Promethean Curse. <3<3<3<3 They're just...great. X3

Oh, and happy belated birthday to MSP. C:

[Blitzkrieg1701]

Hissing Fauna SORT OF hearkens back to the sounds of the earlier of Montreal albums, but how much so depends on which aspects of those albums you're looking for. Instrumentally, it still sticks to the synth-tinged sounds that have been dominating the music since Satanic Panic in the Attic, but Kevin Barnes' writing style is definitely reverting back to the unconventional song structures and album-length concepts of the earlier stuff.

And, oh man, those Dustin Hoffman songs are GREAT