MUSIC is Everywhere!
As the review train keeps rollin’ and rollin’ on, we’ve arrived at our next depot. My review of Of Montreal’s new album, “Hissing Fauna, are You the Destroyer?” that is roughly translated into “Snake Sounding Flower, are you a Breaker of Stuff and/or Things?”. Truth be told, it is. Of my eardrums, HEY-OOOOOOOO!I could really break my review of the new Of Montreal album into two very distinct answers. One monosyllabic, which I will call “Short One”, the other much longer I will call “Long One”.
We’ll start with the “Short One”.
Great.
Ok, now that we’ve got that out of the way, you can either continue reading or just accept my one word review. Either one suits me, I’ve got several hours to burn here at work. So. Where were we? AAAhhh yes. The long review. Ok, well where to start. This album is weird. Infact, many times through my listen through, I was unsure where one song had ended at the other began. This is not to be construed as a bad thing. Of Montreal did this on their last album too, with much the same effect. If I had to give out some shout outs to a particular song or another, these are my top five for the album. I liked most of these for the hooks and general upbeat kooky nature, one of the more delightful things about the band:
1)Grolandic Edit- A funky beat that brings me back to my favorite from the last album Wraith Pinned to Mists and Other Games, which to this day makes me thing about penguins. Adorable, adorable penguins.
2) Faberge Falls For Shuggie – Slick, slidin’ and all around funky fresh. These are the harsh, tasty beats that keep me up at night thinkin’ about walkin’ right. If that didn’t make any sense to you, you need to start watching the “Mighty Boosh”. Besides that, it’s a pretty bad-ass song.
3)She’s A Rejector – I don’t know how many times Kevin Barnes is gonna write about his ex, but if they’re as sweet as this, keep ‘em coming. “You busted me like a robo-cop, striking me with your riding crop”. Awesome. Allthough it does leave me wondering how his wife feels about his pre-occupation with this woman from YEARS ago. Honestly. Apparently they separated last year. Weird.
4) Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider – I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this song. It
undoubtedly has the most memorable lyrics of the entire album with the line “Eva, I’m sorry, but you will never have me; to me you’re just some faggy girl, and I need a lover with soul power, and you ain’t got no soul power.” Huh. Fair enough, and what a diss to Eva.
5) A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger – Terribly fresh, something I know that Electro-Glam superstar Vince Noir would gladly shake to. Also seems like it’s referring back to the last album’s “Oslo in Summertime”. In anycase, it’s fun, I like it.
As for a photo review. Go here. I’m writing this at work, and I don’t want to be caught copying or pasting ANYTHING. THIS IS EXPLICIT NUDITY.
And that’s my review. It’s great. And FUNKY!
Also, has anyone seen the preview for “Dead Silence“? I don’t know why, but it seems as though Hollywood was not content with making “Darkness Falls” once, but they wanna do it again. Weird. And icky. I wanna see it. That and the new Turtles movie. I’m a tool.
Up next, and by request : Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Katie (Jones) wrote:
Tim! I forgot to show you this. It’s what Kevin Barnes had to say about the new album and his life in general!:
“My wife and I had a daughter. But then, kind of in an unconventional sort of way I reacted—well probably maybe very conventional—but I guess I reacted in a negative way to her pregnancy and having a daughter and stuff. At first I wasn’t really capable of accepting it. It was really difficult because it’s such a lifestyle shift. All of the sudden all these things are changing internally and externally, and it was totally freaking me out, and I was trying to balance being in a band and touring and all that and also being a father and being supportive to my wife—because I couldn’t, if I’m going to be on tour, I can’t be there with her, and if I’m going to be with her I can’t be on tour—so it was conflict that I couldn’t resolve, which eventually led to this intense depression period. And as a result of the depression, all of these paranoia and anxiety problems were popping up. And I just started totally freaking out, like a total collapse, which I’ve never ever gone through before. And eventually my wife and I split up, and we got a divorce, and she moved back to Norway, and I went through this hedonistic period, and all this turmoil and all this craziness was going on in my life. The record represents all that, that journey that I went through.
Luckily, I was able to come back and sort things out, and figure things out in my mind, so now, even though we’re still divorced, we’re living together. So, like, she’s my girlfriend now. (laughs) You know, we’re raising our daughter together—so the record kind of represents that. The first half of the record is like—you can kind of sense a lot of tension and turmoil and stuff, and then there’s this 11-minute song that just is like a total just primal scream of a song, you know, like everything, it’s just kind of like, just lay it out there. And after that, it’s sort of a release. And then from that point on the record becomes a lot lighter and a lot happier sounding, sort of these weird little dance numbers. So yeah, in that way it sort of reflects what was going on in my life and how my life is a lot better. I feel a lot happier, and my relationships are better, and everyone’s getting along, and things are working out in a cool way, and I’m super happy to be a father, super happy to be involved in the circle.”
Hooray Of Montreal!
Posted on 02-Mar-07 at 2:15 pm | Permalink
Brock wrote:
um…am I confused or did you just say you enjoyed the tooth-fairy thriller “Darkness Falls”? Like the one that gives you the entire plot of the movie in the first 20 seconds of the movie? PFFt…tool.
Posted on 02-Mar-07 at 3:03 pm | Permalink
Evan wrote:
i saw that movie about a year after it was made and it was already on USA daytime. It kind of felt like a horror movie that was made in the eighties, but with the bland cinematography of today’s horror movies. also, someone needs to figure out how to end a horror movie corectly, it seems to be the worst part of them all.
Posted on 03-Mar-07 at 12:34 pm | Permalink
Brock wrote:
I agree, Evan. I’m reminded of the time I watched “Jeepers Creepers”…then the end credits came on and I was like “That’s it?!?! *checks watch* That was barely an hour long!”
Posted on 03-Mar-07 at 5:05 pm | Permalink
patrick wrote:
Tim! I just saw the dead silence preview. It looks so bad. It looks exactly like darkness falls. Plus I am really tired of every horror movie completely relying on scary music with raspy kids reading children poems/songs. Eff that. All I am saying don’t make me go to that movie. You already made me go to Darkness Falls and White Noise.
Posted on 04-Mar-07 at 12:05 pm | Permalink
Brock wrote:
I saw it too… the dolls reminded me a little of “Saw” actually…Looks stupid… But I also saw the preview for the new CGI “turtles”…WOOT!
Posted on 04-Mar-07 at 3:38 pm | Permalink
Timmy wrote:
Patty, Patty, Patty. You already KNOW I’m making you go with me. Why fight it?
Brock, Sam and I wanna see TMNT, you in?
Posted on 04-Mar-07 at 7:31 pm | Permalink
Lindsey wrote:
Peen!!!!
(that’s my review of this review
Posted on 05-Mar-07 at 12:43 am | Permalink