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[Ent]

I'm a few tracks in. An Eluardian Instance is so so very good. After one listen it's already one of my favorite tracks from the band. I'm really digging the schitzofrentic feel to this album, it's hard to imagine any other band pulling this off so well. The lyrics are absurd at times but still awesome.

"It was too cold to swim so we climbed up on the rocky shore and freaked out on the mountain goats but they were not impressed or scared of us. Do you remember?"

An Eluardian Instance <--- songs like this are why I like this band. Great track. Wasn't that into the first few tracks.

[GimmeDANEger]

The line "I'm just a black shemale" from "Wicked Wisdom" takes the cake for me. Especially cringe-worthy coming from such a wordsmith. I think the music is just as nonsensical as the lyrics. At least it's consistent in its inconsistency. Maybe I'm just too brainwashed by chorus-verse-chorus. I hadn't heard that one-minute songs tidbit before, but if that is true I kind of wish it would have been left that way. There's nothing gluing these song chunks together. I suppose that's also an apt description of Kevin's mind. I don't know. I'll probably be all about this album once I can actually associate the contents of each song together.

[UselessRocker]

I've heard that this album is like the Southland Tales of music.

[GimmeDANEger]

I've heard that this album is like the Southland Tales of music.

That is a perfect description.

[farawaysoclose]

It's a pretty tiring album to listen to straight through and some of the transitions don't work, but there's enough moments of brilliance scattered across the thing to save it.

It might be better going into to it knowing that Kevin initially set out to write 50-60 one minute songs and string them together nonsensically for this album. There's still a hint of that left here.

Ha, just reread the first post.

Kevin: "some of the transitions are intentionally awkward. i did this to keep the listener off guard and to dismantle people's perception of how an album is supposed to be constructed."

[Ogawa]

I'm a few tracks in. An Eluardian Instance is so so very good. After one listen it's already one of my favorite tracks from the band. I'm really digging the schitzofrentic feel to this album, it's hard to imagine any other band pulling this off so well. The lyrics are absurd at times but still awesome.

"It was too cold to swim so we climbed up on the rocky shore and freaked out on the mountain goats but they were not impressed or scared of us. Do you remember?"

An Eluardian Instance <--- songs like this are why I like this band. Great track. Wasn't that into the first few tracks.

I agree, this track is really good. Probably because it has a more normal structure compared to the rest of the album.

[petras]

This album is insane....i can't process this tonight I'm gonna sleep on it. Hissing Fauna + Bitter Tea + Cinemax late night = Skeletal Lamping ? I think I will end up liking this....maybe not loving it....definitly need a few more listens to take it all in. Really digging track 3 after one listen great beat nice hooks fun song, should be a blast in concert.

[Bob Loblaw]

The line "I'm just a black shemale" from "Wicked Wisdom" takes the cake for me. Especially cringe-worthy coming from such a wordsmith. I think the music is just as nonsensical as the lyrics. At least it's consistent in its inconsistency. Maybe I'm just too brainwashed by chorus-verse-chorus. I hadn't heard that one-minute songs tidbit before, but if that is true I kind of wish it would have been left that way. There's nothing gluing these song chunks together. I suppose that's also an apt description of Kevin's mind. I don't know. I'll probably be all about this album once I can actually associate the contents of each song together.

Such a wordsmith?

[elementus]

Why is Gallery Piece not getting any love? Such a fucking great song

[GimmeDANEger]

The line "I'm just a black shemale" from "Wicked Wisdom" takes the cake for me. Especially cringe-worthy coming from such a wordsmith. I think the music is just as nonsensical as the lyrics. At least it's consistent in its inconsistency. Maybe I'm just too brainwashed by chorus-verse-chorus. I hadn't heard that one-minute songs tidbit before, but if that is true I kind of wish it would have been left that way. There's nothing gluing these song chunks together. I suppose that's also an apt description of Kevin's mind. I don't know. I'll probably be all about this album once I can actually associate the contents of each song together.

Such a wordsmith?

Come on...even if he's randomly picking highfalutin words from Webster's, he could be much, much worse.

[Bob Loblaw]

Why is Gallery Piece not getting any love? Such a fucking great song

After one listen, that is one of many things to like about this album. But whoever compared it to the new Girltalk was fairly accurate. If you look at this as a 60-minute experiment, I think it works. If you look for singles, you won't dig it. I didn't look at the track list when I first listened to it, so I just assumed there were about 25-30 tracks. If nothing else, it's ambitious.

[Bob Loblaw]

I'm a few tracks in. An Eluardian Instance is so so very good. After one listen it's already one of my favorite tracks from the band. I'm really digging the schitzofrentic feel to this album, it's hard to imagine any other band pulling this off so well. The lyrics are absurd at times but still awesome.

"It was too cold to swim so we climbed up on the rocky shore and freaked out on the mountain goats but they were not impressed or scared of us. Do you remember?"

An Eluardian Instance <--- songs like this are why I like this band. Great track. Wasn't that into the first few tracks.

Totally. Those horns are kickass.

[Bob Loblaw]

The line "I'm just a black shemale" from "Wicked Wisdom" takes the cake for me. Especially cringe-worthy coming from such a wordsmith. I think the music is just as nonsensical as the lyrics. At least it's consistent in its inconsistency. Maybe I'm just too brainwashed by chorus-verse-chorus. I hadn't heard that one-minute songs tidbit before, but if that is true I kind of wish it would have been left that way. There's nothing gluing these song chunks together. I suppose that's also an apt description of Kevin's mind. I don't know. I'll probably be all about this album once I can actually associate the contents of each song together.

Such a wordsmith?

Come on...even if he's randomly picking highfalutin words from Webster's, he could be much, much worse.

Um, randomly picking words out of Websters would be the exact opposite of a wordsmith. I'm a big fan, but honestly, it doesn't get much worse from a lyric standpoint.

[vamos]

This album is like a really big quilt of melody and sound. I can tell that I will be listening to this a lot more to hear all the details. Forget the image and listen to the music. Actually, sometimes it's kind of hard to tell. Some critic said something along the lines of "much great music straddles the line between lame and amazing." So this album definitely is intriguing.

[SirGabriel]

This album is like a really big quilt of melody and sound. I can tell that I will be listening to this a lot more to hear all the details. Forget the image and listen to the music. Actually, sometimes it's kind of hard to tell. Some critic said something along the lines of "much great music straddles the line between lame and amazing." So this album definitely is intriguing.

Thank you for saying that.

[Ent]

Unfortunately a lot of songs on Skeletal Lamping won't be able to be played on the radio due to language and multiple sexual references. In a lot of places, it's difficult as hell to figure out when one track has ended and another has begun due to the multiple transitions in the songs. I guess that's kind of what Kevin was going for though.

[SirGabriel]

Yeah but that's one of the things that makes this album awesome, is that you just have to follow it to see what it brings.

[Johnny's Shack]

So I've listened to this 1/2 times. I don't find it that jarring or grating. It might switch styles frequently, but they're pleasant pop styles. Times New Viking is grating.

[petras]

Unfortunately a lot of songs on Skeletal Lamping won't be able to be played on the radio due to language and multiple sexual references.

Of Montreal gets played on the radio? If so you clearly have better radio stations in your neck of the woods then I do. I see your point though....this album is almost blatantly non commercial. I almost wonder if that was sort of intentional as a sort of FU to all the people calling him a sell out.

Just finished my 2nd listen. There are a few maybe 3 really grating transitions but most of the rest of them do flow very nicely in a way that makes sense for Of Montreal. I'm starting to really dig this album I don't think it will surpass Hissing Fauna for me but it's definitly gonna have long legs for me.

[SirGabriel]

Can someone explain to me why a band would go out of their way to do something to stay out of the mainstream when the persona they carry is pure absurdity and carelessness towards others judgement?