Review: Of Montreal - Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
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This is the ninth studio release from the Athens, Georgia band fronted by lynchpin and band creator Kevin Barnes. For those not familiar with their work, Of Montreal are a flamboyant, extravagantly experimental outfit, not least on this fascinating album.
The music that they create, here, has strong echoes of both funk (see the very Prince-like parts in ‘Wicked Wisdom’ and ‘Plastis Wafers’) and a sort of kitch disco on ‘Gallery Piece’ and ‘Id Engager’, for example. You can also hear a lot of Queen in both the vocal delivery and the sense of melodrama. This is even given a lyrical...
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