of Montreal - Aureate Gloom

A four or five listen record, but a great one.

The live "rock" band feel of the last album + the adhd twists and turns of 'Skeletal Lamping'.
Bit more disco than the last one. Most of the bells and whistles are in the arrangements... not a big production job or anything (though I'd totally welcome a pricey sounding production from them here and there). Dude is on a roll as a vocalist too.

Worth a gander.

Bassem Sabry:
http://youtu.be/8nHi6C2kYMs

Empyrean Abattoir
http://youtu.be/0yqavWHco8A

http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/news/57734/2706e745.jpg

1 Bassem Sabry
2 Last Rites At The Jane Hotel
3 Empyrean Abbatoir
4 Aluminum Crown
5 Virgillian Lots
6 Monolithic Egress
7 Apollyon Of Blue Room
8 Estocadas
9 Chthonian Dirge For Uruk The Other
10 Like Ashoka's Inferno of Memory

does anyone know what johnny thunders and the heartbreakers cover 'inspired the album' as mentioned on ofmontreal.net? or the nina simone song? rfi

Chinese Rocks by the Heartbreakers and Either Way I Lose by Nina.

Been digging this album lately. Less Prince and funk influences, more 70's NYC and Scary Monsters...

http://trypophobia.com/

this bloke could do with taking a bit of a break from making music. This is his, what? fifth album since Hissing Fauna?

5 albums in 9 years is fairly output, it's hardly our of control...

*out

ah blah i can't type today

Yeah he was working at a much faster pace before Hissibg Fauna, correct?

it's closer to 6 albums in 8 years but not worth splitting hairs over. feel that with music as layered, lyrically and musically, as Kevin Barnes attempts, he's been churning these out way faster than necessary. Paralytic Stalks was pretty appalling (couldn't bring myself to listen to LWS) but it sounds like the kind of record that could have been improved if more time had been spent on, not necessarily producing it, but writing the songs.

Have enjoyed PS much more in retrospect, but that one and False Priest are easily my least fave of modern-era oM.

@dog - LWS couldn't sound more different to PS in case you ever feel like giving it a shot.

i may give it a listen. i got very tired out by the sheer amount of self-pitying going on with Paralytic Stalks and what I heard of LWS seemed to be quite a step away, musically, from what I like about oM

Quite a bit of self-pitying going on for LWS, but he seems to have reigned in a bit on the new one. When I met Kevin Barnes last year, I drunkenly told him I didn't like PS at first, but did eventually. Go me

i could dig it on Hissing Fauna and Skeletal Lamping, this forensic-level psycho-delia, but by the next couple of albums it just felt like he was moaning on and on about how miserable he was, with very little whimsy or humour involved.

LWS is imo a bit more "fun" lyrically than the couple records that came before it.
Def some of his best singing too.

Just noticed that during the run of 1997-2004 he was actually more prolific than he has been in the last 10ish years

sort of true, but the scope of what he was doing ramped up quite a bit around Hissing Fauna.

Looking at it by year on Wiki, 2 year gaps on average since HF, but it feels like a lot more for some reason.

Have to pop up every time this discussion happens to observe that Paralytic Stalks is his crowning masterpiece, kthx

please.

LWS was my fave since Hissing Fauna and this sounds like it's cut from a similar cloth. Down for it.

Streaming at NPR:

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/22/387203682/first-listen-of-montreal-aureate-gloom

this is great!

Sure is!

loses steam in the second half but the first few tracks are really good

Hmm. Feeling like there's a lot of gold in that second half.
Maybe not as immediate as the first half (though things like 'Apollyon of Blue Room' certainly are), but still hot as hell.

'Empyrean Abattoir' must be one of their greatest songs. Ridiculously great melodies

great great greatest great

never did give this album a listen, should correct that.

in fact the whole album is brilliant