Skeletal Lamping

Infobox Album |
Name = Skeletal Lamping
Type = Studio
Artist = Of Montreal

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Released = October 21, 2008
Recorded =
Genre = Indie pop, neo-psychedelia
Length = 55:19
Label = Polyvinyl
Producer = Kevin Barnes
Reviews =
*"Drowned In Sound" (9/10) [http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/13695/ link]
*"Wireless Bollinger" (74/100) [http://www.wirelessbollinger.com/content/view/1700/75/ link]
*"Music OMH" Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.musicomh.com/albums/of-montreal_1008.htm/ link]
Last album = "Icons, Abstract Thee" (2007)
This album = "Skeletal Lamping" (2008)
Next album =

"Skeletal Lamping" is the title of the ninth studio album by Athens, Georgia-based band Of Montreal. Kevin Barnes said about the title: "This record is my attempt to bring all of my puzzling, contradicting, disturbing, humorous...fantasies, ruminations and observations to the surface, so that I can better dissect and understand their reason for being in my head. Hence the title, Skeletal Lamping. Lamping is the name of a rather dreadful hunting technique where, hunters go into the forest at night, flood an area in light, then shoot, or capture, the animals as they panic and run from their hiding places." The new album is set to be released on October 21, 2008 on Polyvinylcite web |url=http://ofmontreal.net/blog/2008/09/17/skeletal-lamping-pushed-back-new-id-engager-remix-12/ |title=Skeletal Lamping Pushed Back, New Id Engager Remix 12″ |publisher=ofmontreal.net |accessdate=2008-09-17 |date=2008-09-17] , although it was leaked onto the Internet several weeks early.

tyle

In an interview with "Wireless Bollinger", Kevin Barnes stated that the album will be composed of hundreds of short segments ranging from thirty to fifty seconds in length, though this is now unlikely due to the single "Id Engager". Barnes also remarked that the forthcoming album will deviate from the traditional pop song structures employed by the group in the past while still retaining the melodic and poppy sound listeners have come to expect from Of Montreal. cite web | author= Justin Pearsall | title= “Why Kevin Barnes is not normal"| url= http://www.wirelessbollinger.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=178&Itemid=34| work = Wireless Bollinger | year=2007| accessdate=2008-02-29] Many of the group's new songs explore new sonic territory and find Of Montreal delving into such disparate genres as surf rock and funk.

In a recent interview with Pitchfork Media, Barnes stated that Of Montreal will continue to evolve with "Skeletal Lamping":cite web | author= Mike Carriere | title= “Interview: Of Montreal"| url= http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/45923-interview-of-montreal| work = Pitchfork Media | year=2007| accessdate=2008-02-29]

"Musically, it is sort of all over the place, too. There really isn't necessarily a sense of continuity there. It's definitely funkier. It's maybe developing off of things like "Faberge Falls for Shuggie" and "Labyrinthian Pomp" from "Hissing Fauna". It's kind of moving things in those directions. It's something that I find exciting, as it's not something that I've really worked with a lot in the past. It still holds some mystery for me. I really feel there is something I can use in that genre. It's fun for me too because it kind of-- touching upon what we were talking about earlier-- goes against the kind and gentle side of indie rock. Funk music is not like that at all."

Georgie Fruit

. Georgie Fruit was first mentioned on Of Montreal's 2007 album "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?" during the song "Labyrinthian Pomp".

In several interviews, Barnes has described the role of Georgie Fruit on "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?":cite web | author= Roger | title= “A Touch of Blush Makes A Georgie"| url= http://brooklynrockcity.blogspot.com/2007/02/touch-of-blush-makes-georgie.html| work = Brooklyn Rock City| year=2007| accessdate=2008-03-03]

"Barnes himself has described the album as a concept album, 'detailing his transformation from Kevin Barnes into Georgie Fruit.'
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'The transformation takes place during "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal,' the 15-minute long 'turning point' of the album."

According to Barnes, Georgie Fruit will play a prominent role on "Skeletal Lamping". In the same interview with "Pitchfork Media", Barnes elaborated on the Georgie Fruit's background and character:

"The character's name is Georgie Fruit, and he's in his late forties, a black man who has been through multiple sex changes. He's been a man and a woman, and then back to a man. He's been to prison a couple of times. In the 70s he was in a band called "Arousal", a funk rock band sort of like the Ohio Players. Then he went through a few different phases."

Track listing

# "Nonpareil of Favor" 5:48
# "Wicked Wisdom" 5:00
# "For Our Elegant Caste" 2:35
# "Touched Something's Hollow" 1:26
# "An Eluardian Instance" 4:35
# "Gallery Piece" 3:48
# "Women's Studies Victims" 2:59
# "St. Exquisite's Confessions" 4:35
# "Triphallus, to Punctuate!" 3:23
# "And I've Seen a Bloody Shadow" 2:23
# "Plastis Wafers" 7:11
# "Death Is Not a Parallel Move" 3:01
# "Beware Our Nubile Miscreants" 4:52
# "Mingusings" 3:01
# "Id Engager" 3:24

References

External links

* [http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=69/ Live Of Montreal performance featuring unreleased tracks]
* [http://www.ofmontreal.net/ Of Montreal's official website]
* [http://ofmontreal.net/blog/2008/06/10/skeletal-lamping-is-complete/ Kevin Barnes' announcement of the album being completed.]
* [http://www.urb.com/reviews/cd/feature.php?ReviewId=768/ URB Magazine album review]