Of Montreal "Satanic Twins" 2x LP OOP Beulah MGMT Jupiter One

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Of Montreal "Satanic Twins" Gatefold 2xLP Polyvinyl (US)

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Track Listing:

A1 Disconnect The Dots (Mixel Pixel Remix) Remix – Mixel Pixel A2 How Lester Lost His Wife (Pocket Remix) Remix – Pocket (5) A3 My British Tour Diary (Restiform Bodies (Anticon.) Remix) Remix – Restiform Bodies B1 Climb The Ladder (Rory Phillips Remix) Remix – Rory Phillips B2 Chrissy Kiss The Corpse (Nils Lannon Remix) Remix – Nils Lannon* B3 Rapture Rapes The Muses (DJ Dave P. & Adam Sparkles Making Time Remix) Remix – DJ Dave P. & Adam Sparkles* C1 Forecast Fascist Future (IQU Nieto Remix) Remix – IQU C2 The Party's Crashing Us (I Am The World Trade Center Remix) Remix – I Am The World Trade Center C3 Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games (Broken Spindles Remix) Remix – Broken Spindles D1 I Was A Landscape In Your Dream (Grizzly Bear Remix) Remix – Grizzly Bear D2 Requiem For O.M.M.2 (United State Of Electronica Remix) Remix – United State Of Electronica* D3 I Was Never Young (Supersystem Remix) Remix – Supersystem

History

Of Montreal (officially typeset "of Montreal") is an American indie pop band formed in Athens, Georgia. Fronted by Kevin Barnes, it was among the second wave of groups to emerge from The Elephant 6 Recording Company.

The band was created by Kevin Barnes and named after a failed romance with a woman from Montreal, though the story changes in various interviews. Barnes was the only member of the "group" prior to his relocation to Athens, Georgia. There, he met Derek Almstead, later of the Circulatory System, M Coast, Elf Power etc., and Bryan Poole, who also performs as The Late B.P. Helium. Together, they recorded their first album, Cherry Peel, as well as The Bird Who Ate the Rabbit's Flower and The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy.

After production on The Gay Parade began in 1998, Poole left the band to focus on his duties with Elf Power, another Elephant Six band from Athens. Barnes then recruited Jamey Huggins and Dottie Alexander, who had been performing together as Lightning Bug vs. Firefly, to play various instruments. Derek moved from drums to bass. The band was joined soon after by Marshmallow Coast's Andy Gonzales.

A number of singles and a re-release of The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower occurred before the advent of the band's third album, The Gay Parade in 1999. With contributions from several members of the Elephant Six collective at the time, it also featured artwork from Kevin's brother David Barnes, who would continue to do artwork for future albums.

Following the release of The Gay Parade, the band signed with Kindercore Records, who would release a number of singles and compilations. It wasn't until 2001 that Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse would be released as a new album with original material. The album again featured contributions from across the Elephant Six spectrum.

Of Montreal front figure Kevin Barnes playing in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2005

In 2002, Aldhils Arboretum was released, with a slightly different sound than its predecessors, as the songs were more directly structured. This album marks the beginning of the change in Of Montreal's sound, with more danceable rhythms than before, particularly on the album's closer "Death Dance Of The Omipapas and Sons For You". A successful tour ensued, including the band's first trip to the UK, along with a tour-only EP.

Kindercore Records would fold shortly after the release of Arboretum, and Of Montreal's status was also threatened. Kevin got married, and Andy and Derek left the band. Barnes, being uncomfortable with the unrest, as well as some divisions within the band, took to writing and performing their 2004 album Satanic Panic in the Attic mostly by himself. Released by Polyvinyl Records, it became one of their more successful efforts to that point. The album marked a shift to an electronic bass, with drum machines and synthesizers featured in singles such as "Disconnect the Dots". The tour for that album also saw The Late B.P. Helium (Bryan Poole) rejoin the band, with some bass played by Kevin's partner Nina.

This style would continue to evolve into 2005's The Sunlandic Twins, which was even more a Barnes solo effort. Recorded in Athens, with the exception of one track recorded in Norway, it was a much more pronounced electronic album. The album became a success, mostly due to the singles "So Begins Our Alabee" and the MTV clip for "Wraith Pinned to the Mist (and Other Games)".

The band released several collections of singles in early 2006. Barnes recorded most of the band's 2007 release, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, by himself while living in Norway and Athens, Georgia. The switch to autobiographical themes of suicide, depression and isolation of the album was a direct product of his troubled personal life during that period. Barnes also released a companion CD to Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? called Icons, Abstract Thee. In 2007, Kevin Barnes performed five songs nude during a performance in Las Vegas.

Of Montreal's next album, Skeletal Lamping, was released on October 21, 2008. The album was released in ten different formats, including conventional CD and vinyl, as well as t-shirts, button sets, wall decals, tote bags and a paper lantern, the latter formats replete with a digital download code for the album itself. All items for the collection were designed by The Bee With Wheels (David Barnes) and Gemini Tactics (Nina Barnes), a coalition termed the 'Apollinaire Rave Colective'. In an essay addressing the concept behind the album's release, Kevin Barnes stated "We feel that there’s no reason to produce another object that just sits on a shelf. We only want to produce objects that have a function and that can be treasured for their singularness." The video for the records second single, An Eluardian Instance will be directed by Jesse Ewles. The album reached number one on emusic's Most Downloaded Albums Chart, as reported in the November 14, 2008 issue of Entertainment Weekly.

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