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The brainchild of singer/song-writer/guitarist Kevin Barnes, euphoric indie popsters of Montreal were among the second wave of bands to emerge from the sprawling Elephant 6 collective. A native of Athens, Georgia, Barnes was inspired to form the group in the wake of a broken romance with a woman from Montreal; signing to Bar/None while living in Florida, he subsequently moved to Cleveland and Minneapolis in search of compatible band mates, finally returning home to collaborate with bassist Bryan Helium (also a member of Athens' Elf Power) and drummer Derek Almstead.
of Montreal's debut album, Cherry Peel, appeared in mid-1997, followed that autumn by an EP, The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower. After Helium left to focus on Elf Power full-time, Almstead assumed bass duties, and keyboardist Dottie Alexander and drummer Jamie Huggins joined the lineup; still, the second of Montreal full-length albums, 1998's The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy, was recorded primarily as a Barnes solo project.
Multi-instrumentalist A.C. Forrester signed on for 1999's sublime The Gay Parade; the singles retrospective Horse & Elephant Eatery followed in the spring of 2000. The group continued with the release of Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse in April 2001 and Aldhils Arboretum in September of 2002, both for Kindercore. (read more)
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I know we suffer for fashion
or whatever
we dont' want these days to ever end
we just want to emasculate them forever
forever, forever
pretty sirens don't go flat
it's not supposed to happen like that
not like that
not like that
not like that
we've got to keep it physical
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Suffer For Fashion by Of Montreal. Video directed by Sigrid Astrup. Watch his other videos at http://www.sigridastrup.com
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- Of Montreal Live! It is April 15th now... we are home and exhausted from the surreal experience that is Of Montreal live and soon sleep will come. Already video is up from some showgoer other than I, and while the sound quality is off the video does capture a bit of the theatre of the absurd antics of the evening! This band is amazing live! Amazing! Their crazy tiger man guy is totally going to show up in my dreams though... I just know it! Now you can see him too! ...
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- Sobered by the bad news of Montreal jazz historian Len Dobbin's sudden passing, I attended a press conference where the festival's founder, Alain Simard, presented Ornette Coleman with its annual Miles Davis Award. Being the 50th anniversary of Coleman's album The ... Playing alto, trumpet and violin, he led the band through a series of dramatic passages, drawing vintage compositions and stray melodies from all points of his idiosyncratic career. Besides the man himself, ...
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