| Average Customer Rating: |  4.0 |
| Release Date: | 2008-10-21 |
| Publisher: | Polyvinyl Records |
| Artist: | Of Montreal |
| Track 1: | Nonpareil Of Favor |
| Track 2: | Wicked Wisdom |
| Track 3: | For Our Elegant Caste |
| Track 4: | Touched Something's Hollow |
| Track 5: | An Eluardian Instance |
| Track 6: | Gallery Piece |
| Track 7: | Women's Studies Victims |
| Track 8: | St. Exquisite's Confessions |
| Track 9: | Triphallus, To Punctuate! |
| Track 10: | And I've Seen A Bloody Shadow |
| Track 11: | Plastis Wafers |
| Track 12: | Death Is Not A Parallel Move |
| Track 13: | Beware Our Nubile Miscreants |
| Track 14: | Mingusings |
| Track 15: | Id Engager |
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Their breakthrough, "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?" catapulted the band to the upper echelon of indie stardom. The record landed on over thirty major year-end lists including Paste, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Associated Press, and sold over 100,000 copies. "Skeletal Lamping" also delivers. It's a complicated and dense thrill ride packed with slinky grooves. Unpredictable, unique, and epic. Includes 32-panel fold-out/pop-up art piece by David Barnes and Gemini Tactics. Double LP on 180 gram vinyl includes giant die-cut poster exclusive to the LP.
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Customer reviews
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Nigh Flawless
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This is perhaps the best Of Montreal album to date. Fusing the pop-prowess of "Hissing Fauna..." with the schizophrenic-pastiche songwriting of "Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies..." and "The Bedside Drama," it truly is a perfect postmodern pop album. People have slammed this album pretty hard for being self-indulgent and all over the place sonically, but it is truly one of the most engaging albums of the year. It has the soul of Marvin Gaye, the funk of Prince, the glamour and pop sensibilities of David Bowie and the perfect mixture of frank sexuality and sardonic wit.
Best Pop Album of 2008
Rating: 
(5
out of 5) @ 2008-12-24
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Pleasureable Puss
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This cd is like taking an evening out at the circus. Each act, though uniformly different, blends together perfectly under the same tent, with aeralists and fire-breathers in one corner and clowns juggling knives in the other. In sum, there's a lot going on at once, and for the most part, the result is utter bliss if you're looking for an edge to your music. The first single, Id Engager, is a stellar party anthem, chock-full of hooks and distorted drums, while An Eluardian Instance is a horn-fueled clutter-bitch of alt-poppy goodness, turning on its heavenly heel at the end. That's the thing about Skeletal lamping, each song melts into another, and once you feel like you know where you're headed, you're flipped in an entirely new direction. What a great vibe this album has. A definite must for 2008.
Rating:
(5
out of 5) @ 2008-12-21
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Don't just "hear" it, listen!
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"Skeletal Lamping" is a great record. Period.
Why is it so great? To me, it is a great record because it is challenging, but at the same time its approachable. It is a continuation of Of Montreal's experimentation with dance/ electronica that many had thought they perfected with "Hissing Fauna..." But their previous album was only the start. While experimental, there are some great, persona; lyrics, and complex wordplay therein for the listener. "I held your flag when nobody else did." Sometimes they're amusing... "you only like him 'cos he's sexually appealing, but I read his diary, it was quite revealing."
I'm not with the album right now, so I might be misqouting these. I read an interview with Kevin Barnes recently, where he spoke about really wanting to toy with song structure, and how it is perceived. While few songs have that verse-chorus-verse-bridge-etc easily identified within them, the movements of the songs on this album are seemless and make sense.
I still prefer earlier Of Montreal music, but if it weren't for the dance sensibilities of these more recent albums... I don't know. Of Montreal have turned me on to some new sounds, and if that doesn't make their music important, than I don't know what could.
Rating:
(4
out of 5) @ 2008-12-06
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What To Make of This?
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I am quite torn on this album; I can't figure out if it's...
a.) A work of self-indulgence that has some great pop moments surrounded by filler. With lines like "I'm just a black she-male" and "We can do it softcore if you want, don't you know I do it both ways"; I'm not sure if Barnes is offering any insight on sexuality or if he's trying to stretch out his image as the eccentric, daring songwriter. At least the pure weirdness of 'Coquelicot...' could be seen as the product of 'lysergic bliss', if Barnes is bringing up the topic of sexuality/relationships, he ought to say something meaningful. You can't have it both ways (oh, I'm so clever).
b.) A work of eccentric genius. There are plenty of bands that have multiple parts in songs, but he's taking it to a new level. Instead of being able to judge each song on its own merits, the whole album is in flux. The album is more of an experience than a collection of distinct songs. While this experience would make your average person a tad uncomfortable, it is the weird/quirky/ambiguous nature of it all that makes it so thrilling.
This is an album that's going to take some time to pin down how I feel about it, but isn't that what art is supposed to do? Question our values/assumptions and make us think.
This is a tough one.
Rating: 
(3
out of 5) @ 2008-12-02
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SCHIZOPHRENIC, PSYCHEDELIC, VULGAR, FUNNY, SEXUAL, DARK, SHINE...
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Whatever you want!!!
Open your mind and enjoy, because this album is SO WEIRD. Let's make clear, If there's one thing to be said about "Kevin Barnes a.k.a. / alter ego Georgie Fruit", it's that he has never been afraid to do exactly what he wants with his music and his art, perverting US indie for more than ten years, with his mix of electronic psychedelia and 1980's funk-pop. On his ninth album, he has shifted the focus back to his wicked side.
"Skeletal Lamping", the band's new album, in which he takes on bizarro personas tackling every facet of love and relationships, from the freaky stuff behind closed doors to just plain heartache. It's by far the densest, most rhythmic, most carnal and most epic release from Of Montreal yet.
Barnes has made it known that the album centers on his alter ego Georgie Fruit, who is in his late 40s, a black man who has been through multiple sex changes. He's been a man and a woman, and then back to a man. He's been to prison a couple of times.
Organized more as an all-night dance mix rather than by individual tracks, the songs feature tempos that quicken, then slow and take hairpin turns. Pseudo-singles "Nonpareil of Favor" and "Id Engager" bookend the collection, while the gooey center is a mishmash of fuzzy trip-hop and schizophrenic desires mostly plucked from the late '70s. Tempos and moods shift with jittery speed, echoing his altering mental states. The biggest surprise, however, comes early on when he drops the personas for his most honest song to date, Touched Something's Hollow.
On his blog, Barnes has talked about how lamping is a practice wherein hunters illuminate woodland in order to flush out game, and that Skeletal Lamping is an attempt to do the same with his personal demons. That would seem correct: this record is the filth and the scum, the hopes and the fears, the perversion and the innocence of one brilliant, dissolute mind, blasting forth like a natural disaster. Some people are going to think this is a masterpiece, the equal of Hissing Fauna. Others will call it a self indulgent mess that pushes indie-rock somewhere it really wasn't meant to go.
Personally, I LIKE A LOT.
Rating:
(5
out of 5) @ 2008-11-14
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