Jun 10
Skeletal Lamping is Complete
Posted by jeff
Kevin on Skeletal Lamping, from the MySpace blog:
i’ve finished the new album. i’ve been working on it for over a year. it’s mastered and ready to go.
it won’t come out till october though. i am very happy with it. i worry that some people are going to misunderstand it. there’s nothing i can do about that though, now, it is done. anyways,i didn’t create it to give people something to like. i created it because i was compelled to.
it is possible to view this album as one long composition, with lots of different movements, or just as a collection of pop songs. i wanted to make an album that was unpredictable and, at times,startling, yet always hummable and catchy. some of the transitions are intentionally awkward. i did this to keep the listener off guard and to dismantle people’s perception of how an album is supposed to be constructed. i am so bored with art that makes sense and “works”. i wanted to do somethings that didn’t “work”. very few things pique our interest while they are working as we expect them to, things are far more interesting when they are not working. shocking people though, just for the sake of it, is so mundane. nothing on Skeletal Lamping was intended to shock. i just feel that,in most contemporary songs, you can basically finish the artist’s sentences,musically and lyrically. i wanted to make an album where that was not possible.
i wanted to make a record that could truly surprise a listener. to create something that was, in turns, enraging, joyous, discomforting, playful, lovely, unpleasant, freaky, mesmeric…something that came close to capturing the labyrinthine complexity of this human consciousness.
i spend most of my time in a state of mild confusion and pensiveness. i imagine most people do too. 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.
this album is my attempt at doing this to my proverbial skeletons. i haven’t yet decided if i should shoot or just capture them though.
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a change is good can’t have every record souding the same, but you have no problems there. i’m super pumped, this bring october from my favorite month to a higher ranking i don’t know of.
Hooray! I’m so fucking excited to hear it. Do you know what day in October the album is going to be released yet? I have to mark it on my calendar and make a day out of it.
Wow, I’m totally stoked! Come on Kevin, just release it already!
BP has said on the Townhall that it’s going to be October 7th. I suppose he’d know.
i too would love to hear an exact date! party party all day. maybe i can find my skeletons too.
Kevin! Do what you want we all know that it will be great anyway. I am (we are) waiting for you in France, your last shows in Europe were so fucking good (Paris, Bruxelles) Hope to hear u soon, glad to see u soon… with all my luv…
Can´t wait to hear it! And please, this time you should play at Madrid, we´ve been wating for years!
SOSOSO excited for skeletal lamping…your description intrigues me. can’t wait to hear what you guys have created now.
As above… based on experience, it promises to do nothing but excite and provide instant gratification. I will hibernate until October once I have gathered some nuts.
Wonderful. Amazing. I can’t wait to hear it.
I love Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? so much, I cannot wait to hear Skeletal Lamping. It sounds beautiful, poignant, and perfect.
Well I can’t freakin WAIT!!! The first time i saw you was in Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle and ever since then, you have been SOOOOOO key to my life. I listen to all of your albums constantly until I hear about another album you all have coming out. I have been long awaiting this posting. Thank you all for all that you do. If you can hear me out there Dottie…..PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE play the Key-tar (like the one Lisa Turtle used to play in Saved by the bell) for at least one song the next time you are at the cradle. You all are BRILLIANT!!! More than you will ever know. Courage and creativity combined to produce the most amazing sound I have ever heard. Of Montreal.
Rock on!
Oct. 7th is the date I heard.
october 7th!!!!!!
I just can’t wait for it!!!!!!
Wow thats pretty the passionate. I look forward to hearing the new Album. I’m even more excited about Sled Island!
of Montreal music is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really inspiring :)
I’m really excited to hear you guys are coming out with a new album. It’s bound to be amazing!
i have always been a big of montreal fan and i’m sure this record will be great but the song titles on this one seem a little pretentious or something. or maybe i’m just dumb,i never did get into the decemberists.
I’ve actually heard Skeletal Lamping, if you are an Of Montreal fan, you will completely enjoy this album for everything it’s worth, even if it deviates from what’s normal for them, it deviates in the best way. Give Gallery Piece (Number 6) and Wicked Wisdom (Number 2) your first listens. Good tracks.