OF MONTREAL RELEASES LOUSY WITH SYLVIANBRIAR
ANNOUNCES REDDIT AMA TOMORROW
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 Photograph courtesy of Nina Barnes
PRESS QUOTES:
The most memorable, lasting, and relatable albums in Of Montreal's extensive catalog, and easily one of the best. - All Music
Lousy With Sylvianbriar is a satisfying link in bringing Barnes' musical progression full-circle - A.V. Club A stunning re-imagining of Barnes' songwriting prowess. [9.2/10] - Paste Lousy with Sylvianbriar is a sonic surprise of a different variety: 11 intimate tunes built on Summer of Love grooves and country-folk dreaminess. - Rolling Stone
Lousy With Svlvianbriar proves once again [Kevin Barnes] has a songwriting consistency few can match. - Under The Radar
After sharing their album Lousy With Sylvianbriar as a full album stream through Pitchfork Advance, of Montreal's new album is now available via Polyvinyl Records. To celebrate the release, they are excited to announce to their fans that Kevin Barnes will be holding a Reddit AMA tomorrow, October 9th at 2:00 PM. Later this month, the band will head out on a full US tour that includes dates with La Luz later and concludes nearly a month later in their home state of Georgia. Check out the details of the tour and the link to purchase the album below.
BUY
LOUSY WITH SYLVIANBRIAR:
REDDIT AMA:
TOUR DATES
10/18/13 @ 40 Watt Club - Athens, GA
10/22/13 @ Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
10/23/13 @ U Street Music Hall - Washington, DC
10/24/13 @ U Street Music Hall - Washington, DC
10/25/13 @ Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
10/26/13 @ Middle East - Cambridge, MA
10/27/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
10/28/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY*
10/29/13 @ Beachland - Cleveland, OH*
10/30/13 @ Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL*
10/31/13 @ Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI*
11/01/13 @ Cedar Cultural Center - Minneapolis, MN*
11/02/13 @ Waiting Room - Omaha, NE*
11/03/13 @ Marquis Theater - Denver, CO*
11/04/13 @ Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City, UT*
11/05/13 @ Korah Shrine - Boise, ID*
11/06/13 @ Neomos - Seattle, WA*
11/07/13 @ Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR*
11/08/13 @ Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA*
11/09/13 @ Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA*
11/10/13 @ Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA*
11/11/13 @ Largo at The Coronet - Los Angeles, CA*
11/12/13 @ Club Congress - Tucson, AZ*
11/14/13 @ Trees - Dallas, TX*
11/15/13 @ Mohawk - Austin, TX*
11/16/13 @ Howlin' Wolf - New Orleans, LA*
11/17/13 @ Terminal West - Atlanta, GA*
* = w/ La Luz
Defining of Montreal is impossible. There are too many perspectives to consider, angles to explore and layers to uncover. Just when you think you have a concept of what kind of creature they are they transform into something unexpected and new. As a result, each album holds the opportunity for re-discovery, re-immersion, re-appreciation.
On Lousy With Sylvianbriar, this paradigm holds true once more. The record was created with a new songwriting approach, a different recording method, and a fresh group of musicians. Seeking creative inspiration, Kevin Barnes re-located to San Francisco where he spent days soaking in the strange surroundings and channeling the city's energy into his writing. After a very prolific period there, he returned to Athens, GA and assembled the cast of musicians to begin the sessions. Barnes eschewed computer recording, with its pitch correction, limitless effects plug ins and editing possibilities. Instead, with the help of engineer Drew Vandenberg (Deerhunter, Toro Y Moi), he recorded Lousy With Sylvianbriar in his home studio on a 24 track tape machine. With no computer tricks to fall back on, the band - Kevin Barnes (guitars, bass, vocals), "I knew I wanted the process to be more in line with the way people used to make albums in the late 60s and early 70s," reveals Barnes. "I wanted to work fast and to maintain a high level of spontaneity and immediacy. I wanted the songs to be more lyric driven, and for the instrumental arrangements to be understated and uncluttered". Opening track and lead single "Fugitive Air" feels like a Stones-y anthem, with sparks of Philip K Dick's psychedelic prose, Ralph Bakshi's cartoon violence and William S Burroughs' hyper-paranoia. "Belle Glade Missionaries" finds Barnes lyrically at his most political, backed by a soundtrack that is pure Dylan circa Highway 61 Revisited. Female vocalist Rebecca Cash makes several appearances on the album, taking the lead on the plaintive "Raindrop In My Skull," where her and Barnes share a Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris-inspired duet. "She Ain't Speakin' Now" ranks among of Montreal's all-time great songs, transforming its brooding acoustic guitar intro into a visceral angst-ridden rocker that sounds like the best moments of Neil Young & Crazy Horse. The album's closer "Imbecile Rages", a caustic and doleful epitaph for a crumbling relationship, is one of Barnes' most raw and personal statements. Like the classic albums that inspired it, this is an album to be explored, to be lived with, to be listened to in happiness and in darkness, to be dissolved into. To be played very loudly at parties and with eyes closed, in headphones, alone. It should become dog-eared and dirty with use and it should lessen the blow of our enemies, in all of their forms. The album will be available digitally, on tape, CD and 180-gram vinyl. 1500 copies of vinyl will be clear green vinyl and available through Polyvinyl's E-store exclusively, while the other retail copies will be pink vinyl. Cassette edition limited to 250 hand-numbered copies on green cassettes, courtesy of Joyful Noise Recordings. 
of Montreal
Lousy With Sylvianbriar
(Polyvinyl)
Out Now
1. Fugitive Air
2. Obsidian Currents
3. Belle Glade Missionaries
4. Sirens Of Your Toxic Spirit
5. Colossus
6. Triumph Of Disintegration
7. Amphibian Days
8. She Ain't Speakin' Now
9. Hegira Émigré
10. Raindrop In My Skull
11. Imbecile Rages
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