Polyvinyl (of Montreal’s record company) is looking people who want to work as interns who live in the Bay Area of California. You know, San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, etc… If you are interested, please send an email and résumé to Seth Hubbard (the big teddy bear dude). You’ll possibly get to help promote of Montreal’s next record! ;)

send all applications to: seth [at] polyvinylrecords.com

The lampings are hardly skeletal this year, but quite fleshy and overflowing. Polyvinyl and Paste Magazine have announced the many different iterations of Skeletal Lamping which will be available upon the album’s release on October 7. There will be seven different formats from which to choose: CD, 180-gram LP, T-shirt, tote bag, button set, paper lantern, and wall decal set. All seven will feature a digital download of the album. Pre-orders should be available around September 1.

 

The first single from Skeletal Lamping is “Id Engager,” a 7″ to be released by Polyvinyl Records on August 29.  You can pre-order now at their website.  The vinyl will be pressed in three different colors–blue, gold, or purple–and you can pick your color at $5 each or grab all three for $10.

The limited pressing includes an exclusive non-album B-side and a free digital download of the songs.

A few Skeletal Lamping listening parties are popping up around the States. Here’s one in Madison, WI, sponsored by Muzzle of Bees and Polyvinyl:

The track listing and album art, as announced by Pitchfork. Also a big and warm welcome to Ahmed Gallab (Sinkane), of Montreal’s newest member.

SKELETAL LAMPING

01 Nonpareil of Favor
02 Wicked Wisdom
03 For Our Elegant Caste
04 Touched Something’s Hollow
05 An Eluardian Instance
06 Gallery Piece
07 Women’s Studies Victims
08 St.Exquisite’s Confessions
09 Triphallus, to Punctuate!
10 And I’ve Seen a Bloody Shadow
11 Plastis Wafers
12 Death Is Not a Parallel Move
13 Beware Our Nubile Miscreants
14 Mingusings
15 Id Engager

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.

of Montreal is playing a few shows next week including a recently added show in Paris!

May 8 - Paris, FRANCE - Paris Point Ephemere
May 9 - Brussels, BELGIUM - Les Nuits Botanique
May 11 - Rye, ENGLAND - Camber Sands Holiday Center (All Tomorrow’s Parties)

Of Montreal has been nominated by the 2008 Flagpole Athens Music Awards in the categories of Best (Athens) Pop Band and Best Live Band.  You can vote here for Of Montreal and other Athens acts.

Thanks to lou2ser.

Nina is expanding her Geminitactics line of clothing designs by selling them through the Satisfactory Etsy store (where you can also purchase other custom-designed of Montreal merchandise). Expect a bigger website to open soon, with a wider line of goods. Of course, she’s also still selling beautiful items directly through her MySpace page.

If you’d like to model Geminitactics tee-shirts for the website(s)–that would be you, in a Nina tee-shirt, with Nina’s drawing of you transposed upon the photo, contact Nina through MySpace and she will post all her customized photos in her MySpace photo gallery. To get an idea of what that looks like, you can see some Kevin-modeling here.

of Montreal’s performance from the 2007 Coachella will be aired again as a special encore webcast at AT&T’s Blue Room this Wednesday, April 16th, at 5pm EST/4PM CST.  It’s part of the run-up to Coachella 2008, and the live webcasts that will air on the Blue Room April 25-27.  So if you missed it the first time around, you can catch the band’s ‘07 performance tomorrow along with other acts from ‘07.