of Montreal - False Priest (2010)

http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/of_montreal_in_the_studio

Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes is currently in his Athens, Georgia, home studio working on the band's tenth album, which will be titled False Priest and is tentatively due out next spring. We briefly spoke to Barnes this past Wednesday about his progress on False Priest, which he says is influenced by Parliament and the '80s No Wave scene. "We're kind of making this psychedelic, No Wave, funk album," says Barnes.

So what are you guys working on right now? Are you working on the new record already?

Kevin Barnes: Yeah actually, I'm working on a new record it's gonna be called False Priest. Right now, I'm just kinda like fooling around, just making songs and experimenting. And I'm not so much thinking about what songs are going to be on there or what I'm going to do with the songs. I'm just going to be really free and not think about the outside world at all. I think that's the best way to make music—if you're not thinking about anything other than just being absorbed by the creative process. So that's what I'm trying to do now is just listening to a lot of music and making a lot of music and just kind of immersing myself. I have enough songs now for one album, but I want to just keep writing, see if there's anything else pops up. And then we'll probably release it in the spring of next year...

if you are a fan, click on the link and keep reading.

didn't know about this! pumped

i thought i'd made a snarky post about this record but apparently i decided it was pointlessly negative to do so and didn't

it doesnt even exist yet!

they're kind of making this psychedelic no wave funk album

no new news on this new album but i found this tonight and thought i should share:

The Of Montreal Covers Archive :: 83 covers and counting!:

http://ow.ly/V9sw

man of all the times i wish this was the leak notification post

link goes to MMj covers, here's the of montreal one http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2008/01/30/a-collection-of-of-montreal-covers/

of Montreal

Apr 6, 2010 - The Lyric, Oxford, MS
Apr 7, 2010 - The Moon, Tallahassee, FL
Apr 8, 2010 - The Ritz Ybor, Tampa, FL
Apr 9, 2010 - The Fillmore, Miami Beach, FL
Apr 10, 2010 - Club Firestone, Orlando, FL
May 22, 2010 - Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, LA
May 23, 2010 - The Mohawk, Austin, TX
May 24, 2010 - Granada Theater, Dallas, TX
May 25, 2010 - Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, OK
May 26, 2010 - 9th St. Summerfest, Columbia, MO
May 27, 2010 - Buster's, Lexington, KY
May 28, 2010 - Ches A-Rena, Cheswick, PA
May 29, 2010 - Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
May 30, 2010 - B.O.M.B. Festival, Durham, CT
May 31, 2010 - The Jefferson, Charlottesville, VA
Jun 1, 2010 - The National, Richmond, VA
Jun 2, 2010 - Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/ofmontreal__.jpg

Polyvinyl will release False Priest September 14 in North America (September 13 in Europe).

1 I Feel Ya' Strutter
2 Our Riotous Defects [ft. Janelle Monáe]
3 Coquet Coquette
4 Godly Intersex
5 Enemy Gene [ft. Janelle Monáe]
6 Hydra Fancies
7 Like a Tourist
8 Sex Karma [ft. Solange Knowles]
9 Girl Named Hello
10 Famine Affair
11 Casualty of You
12 Around the Way
13 You Do Mutilate?

http://pitchfork.com/news/39270-of-montreal-announce-ifalse-priesti-release-details-share-first-song/

For a while now, theatrical Athens art freaks of Montreal have been working on a new album called False Priest, featuring production from film composer and Kanye West/Fiona Apple collaborator Jon Brion and guest appearances from indie-loving R&B sirens Janelle Monáe and Solange Knowles...

Brion co-produced the album with frontman Kevin Barnes. Barnes recorded an initial version of the album at his own Apollinaire Rave studio in Athens, Georgia, then re-recorded, mixed, and engineered it with Brion at Ocean Way Recording in Los Angeles...

At this website: http://iheartvinyl.polyvinylrecords.com/em/coquette/ , download lead single "Coquet Coquette", a song that'll get a video later this summer. The LP is also up for pre-order now.

Jon Brion earning his keep there - sounds a hell of a lot more expansive than the recent LPs.

sounds like the white stripes :/

"hydra fancies" has some promise

yeah much better than that first one. these last few albums have sort of been a whole is greater than the sum of the parts thing, though, so i'm trying not to put too much stock in these random mp3s

From two released songs (plus the janelle monae collab), it sounds like they may have gone back to what made me love them in the first place - fun, sunshiney, slightly quirky, danceable beats.
I hardly ever listened to Skeletal Lamping; it was too all over the place for me (although it did have a few nice moments). But I think False Priest has promise of picking up where Hissing Fauna left off. At least, I hope.

so where can i find this second song?

http://www.somekindofawesome.com/journal/2010/7/5/listen-of-montreal-hydra-fancies.html

:)

thank you.

great song, they have some funk in that song.

no problem!
and yes, it sounds pretty good. I'm excited to hear more of this album

hydra fancies is great

somehow these guys made it into my 'can do no wrong' column

somehow? i think i have a good idea of how it happened!

hydra sort of sounds ween-esque to me.

I've heard this album. it is great <3

I hope this is good, but I also hope it doesn't end up being my album of 2010, like the last two did in 2007 and 2008.

Wicked cover!

why not!

@Mr Edmington: how have you heard the album? Is it in a professional capacity (reviewer/writer etc) or do you know the band or someone close to them?

or ARE YOU the band

it is a bootlegged copy. it was streaming on Skype and got recorded so you here skype sounds every now and then. if you want it, email me. sjt✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧ i'll see if i can share it with out getting in any trouble.

sjt900

this has not leaked at all the usually places, so thanks for the offer but i will wait a bit.

so excited about this on so many levels.

i can't anyway. i just figured out. sorry.

based on what i've read, i can't wait to hear the last song

what did u read

everyone's just like O_________O

here's an official trailer for the album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCjyyxWjPdw

i dig the snippet where he's singing like jimmy somerville

so a very bad rip of this has finally leaked. i'm going to wait for a better rip but wanted to let you know that it is now out there.

Listened to the first few tracks this morning... interesting. a little more organic and rocky from what I could hear. There was a song about a guy who's infatuated with a girl and when he eventually starts going out with her she turns out to be extremely mean and controlling.

Saw they're playing on Jimmy Fallon tonight (Thursday), so there's that.

There was a song about a guy who's infatuated with a girl and when he eventually starts going out with her she turns out to be extremely mean and controlling.

― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:55 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

isn't like every song of theirs about that?

Not sure I'm digging this album yet - it sounds kind of strait-laced and rocky compared to the last two, and a lot of the lyrics (as alluded to in titchy's post above) verge heavily on the self-parodic. Then again part of me is hoping it'll grow on me. Apparently they got a band and full orchestra in for this one, but I can't hear it.

Wait, people are actually listening to the Skype rip? I managed 10 seconds before it was in the Trash bin.

this was a promo. don't take what i'm saying too seriously as I've yet to hear it with both ears, figuratively speaking.

GOTCHA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbFz7KOjjTQ

by far my most anticipated release for 2010. i know it has leaked but it's a web rip and of very bad quality, so i have yet to listen to it. "Sex Karma" features Solange Knowles and is a fantastic song, first time hearing it. love how it gets really funky at the end.

but what the hell is up with the Joker makeup?

they did an extra song "Coquet Coquette": http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2010/07/web-exclusive-coquet-coquette-by-of-montreal/

solange is looking good, damn

really digging "sex karma"

he's substantially toned down the histrionics in his vocals.

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, September 11, 2010 8:59 PM (2 minutes ago)

dude what? i thought he turned it UP, if anything

really? i'm comparing it to the hissing fauna album (he's gotten better with album titles, too).

there's a problem with this album - Our Riotous Defects, Enemy Gene and Like A Tourist are standouts, but nothing else has really grabbed me. You Do Mutilate? has a further three or four minutes to blow my mind though

this will probably grow on me tbh

looking forward to hearing this for the first time on Tuesday. my favorite band so they have a lot to live up too. they are on an incredible four album streak.

got this today, can't wait to listen to it for the first time. not tonight however as i'm going to watch baseball instead.

decided i was into this a few days ago, but now i must move it back into the "undecided" column.

Downloaded this from eMusic tonight--will listen to it tonight or tomorrow and get back to you.

Saw these dudes monday night. Crowd was more into Janelle Monae than the new material. False Priest is basically their worst album since before Sunlandic Twins. "Our Riotous Defects" is the worst song they've done in a long time, and it's absolutely bizarre that it's the second song on the album. The album ends strong though, over the last six or seven songs plus coquette coquet. I'm not giving up on this band, but I feel like their basically back to putting out albums that are more miss than hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14640-false-priest/

It's a good album, but not GREAT like Hissing Fauna (and yes, Skeletal Lamping either which I thought was incredible).

This album is pretty fucking ter-a-a-a-a-able. There are moments of greatness and every song has at least one little good part but you have to wade through a bunch of meandering shit to get to it.

am resigned to this being nowhere near the last two records, sadly

Seriously, why does he do that a-a-a-a-a thing so often? Save it for a special occasion Kevin.

Another disappointing album, two in a row now. I'm guessing they'll never quite get back to the Satanic Panic/Sunlandic feel, which was definitely my favorite period of theirs.

Hissing Fauna was so good imo but then the followup was O_O and the lukewarm reviews for this just made me go all x_x

Hissing Fauna was definitely good, but for totally different reasons than the two prior to it.

basically every album this band has made since satanic panic has been great. I can understand people not liking skeletal lamping but don't get the hate for this one at all.

I don't hate it, but neither of the two listens have really given me reason to give it another go. I'd rather hear any of the other three I've mentioned.

I guess maybe this album gives a bit of a bad first impression because the worst songs are right at the beginning

best thing on this album is You Do Mutilate? starting at about 4:30

the Satanic Panic/Sunlandic feel, which was definitely my favorite period of theirs.
^^i feel this

i love skeletal lamping but am kinda meh on this one

Skeletal Lamping is great, still don't understand people not liking that album. there are like four or five excellent songs in there along with all that spazz.

Went to see them a couple weeks ago even though I don't really like this album at all. Have seen them 3 or 4 times before and they were always excellent. Walked out after 4 songs. The sound was awful and they completely fucked with and changed the two old (read: good) songs they played. It was sort of embarrassing to watch.

really? they sounded awesome last time i saw them.

ps this album is great, you are all crazy

Finally, a record for people who thought Midnite Vultures was just too damn serious.

stayed away from this album based upon low expectations-- i found skeletal lamping kinda muddled and manic. i really like this so far.

enemy gene seems to fit more on monae's disc than make the bus or w/e its called

new video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2dHheEgYDA

I think this might be the best of montreal record so far, it took me good while to arrive at this conclusion mind. it's like skeletal lamping got taken to boot camp and told to sort itself out or else.

xgau agrees.

Why is Matt Berninger in a Warpaint video with Of Montreal playing instead?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROmdX7hXDdE

man barnes must be a pretty big bowie fan eh

you've seen him cover "Starman", right?

I dont like any of their albums since The Sunlandic Twins, which with Satanic Panic.. are the albums that are what I see as their twin peaks of utter fabness. I am not trying to be controvertial or dismissing their post Sunlandic output but my humble opinion is that Hissing Fauna, Skeletal Lamping and False Priest all could be edited into fantastic EP's and are very frustrating to listen all the way through. It really annoys me because I have a lorra goodwill for them and have been dissapointed with every album since Sunlandic. Maybe I am just a cloth eared cunt or something.

totally agree that satanic/sunlandic represent a real peak for this band. love 'em both. however i like false priest much better than the two that came before it.

idk if this has been posted but NAGL 2k10 http://theviolenceofhandcrafteddolls.tumblr.com/post/1689432059/reflections-on-my-pitchfork-review

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lchhxlyC271qzhp4e.jpg

Yeah, I don't even think I made it through that whole thing when I came across it but wnkiw imo

I would like to buy Kevin a pizza and a bottle of wine

Big "of" Montreal fan, but that blog post is some pernickety bullshit.

I like this very much.

I didn't like this Of Montreal guy to begin with. This only reinforces that feeling.

I've been listening to them since their first album and never knew the o was supposed to be lower-case. when did he decide that, and who cares?

http://magiska.vlsweb.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/33292981682372530863-400x400.jpg

of Montreal‘s latest studio, False Priest, arrives September 14th. That’s three weeks from now. Yet in a recent interview with Express Night Out (via Prefix), the band’s figurehead, Kevin Barnes, revealed that he’s already eying the release of another studio effort. In fact, he already has a title — The Controller Sphere – and release date — Spring 2011.

According to Barnes, the EP represents the final part of an ongoing trilogy that he first envisioned in 2007 and which was later realized in 2008′s Skeletal Lamping and the forthcoming False Priest. The songs on The Controller Sphere were written at the same time as the material on False Priest, and at least one came from the same sessions with producer Jon Brion.

“There’s three songs that we were initially going to put on False Priest that we decided to cut at the last second,” Barnes said. “I haven’t decided which I want to put on there but there’s a lot of material to choose from.”

More details as they become available. Until then, enjoy False Priest (via Polyvinyl) on September 14th and/or of Montreal on their currently ongoing North American tour.

A mini-album of sorts, thecontrollersphere is a folk album only in the way of Montreal could envision a folk album.

Clocking in at 23 minutes, thecontrollersphere includes the long-awaited studio version of live favorite “Black Lion Massacre” — a pulsing sonic freakout that is the darkest and noisiest song Barnes has ever written and serves as thecontrollersphere’s mission statement.

1.Black Lion Massacre
2.Flunkt Sass vs the Root Plume
3.Holiday Call
4.L’age D’or
5.Slave Translator

this new EP is leaking tonight, at 23 minutes it might be a perfect length.

this EP is called thecontrollersphere EP but can't find a release date to buy it.

finally found some information on this at of Montreal's web site:

Attention Sunlandia, thecontrollersphere is here! The ep comes out April 26th and is available on the following formats – CD, Digital, T-Shirt + MP3, and 180 gram black or limited bright blue vinyl + instant MP3. Bright blue vinyl limited to 1500 copies.

thecontrollersphere is streaming here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/listen-of-montreals-dark-and-freaky-new-ep-thecontrollersphere-20110418