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Skeletal Lamping by of Montreal

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Nonpareil of Favor 5:48 75,407
2 Wicked Wisdom 5:00 66,206
3 For Our Elegant Caste 2:34 84,714
4 Touched Something's Hollow 1:25 59,620
5 An Eluardian Instance 4:35 78,422
6 Gallery Piece 3:47 78,323
7 Women's Studies Victims 2:59 55,154
8 St. Exquisite's Confessions 4:34 51,232
9 Triphallus, to Punctuate! 3:22 55,563
10 And I've Seen a Bloody Shadow 2:23 55,155
11 Plastis Wafers 7:11 45,558
12 Death Is Not a Parallel Move 3:01 45,997
13 Beware Our Nubile Miscreants 4:52 50,155
14 Mingusings 3:00 49,242
15 Id Engager 3:25 81,107
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About this album

Polyvinyl Record Company (2008) Released: 21 Oct 2008 15 tracks (57:56)
Skeletal Lamping is the title of the ninth studio album by Athens, Georgia-based band of Montreal. Kevin Barnes said about the title: “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.”

In an interview with Wireless Bollinger in 2007, Kevin Barnes described his concept for the follow-up to Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? as an album composed of hundreds of consecutive short segments ranging from thirty to fifty seconds in length, with the intention that it “feel like one long piece with hundreds of movements.”

In a recent interview with Pitchfork Media, Barnes stated that of Montreal will continue to evolve with Skeletal Lamping:

“Musically, it is sort of all over the place, too. There really isn’t necessarily a sense of continuity there. It’s definitely funkier. It’s maybe developing off of things like “Faberge Falls for Shuggie” and “Labyrinthian Pomp” from Hissing Fauna. It’s kind of moving things in those directions. It’s something that I find exciting, as it’s not something that I’ve really worked with a lot in the past. It still holds some mystery for me. I really feel there is something I can use in that genre. It’s fun for me too because it kind of […] goes against the kind and gentle side of indie rock. Funk music is not like that at all.”
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  • Pastiche1

    Impossible to rank oM albums, but this is a masterpiece like all the others. It's definitely in my top five if I was forced to subscribe to that.

    last week

  • theboredone

    It's grown on me, AT LAST!

    26 days ago

  • janelesque

    These comments about finally liking/getting into this album makes me want to try listening to this again.

    last month

  • hero486

    Favorite album for sure

    last month

  • fifteen-blows

    Definitely a lot better than I remember it being back when it first came out.

    March 2012

  • Nakkinak

    2deep4u time

    March 2012

  • hornsofarabbit

    Definitely my favorite of Montreal album

    March 2012

  • Captain_Waffles

    The bad thing about this album is that it sounds like 60 little songs all glued together and I never pay attention to the track names, so I never know where ANYTHING is. It's a good listen all the way through though.

    January 2012

  • bearlyy

    Just as good as Hissing Fauna, if not better.

    January 2012

  • CupidsQrushdEgo

    Amazingly flamboyant.... but amazing nonetheless. Must be played at high volumes with the windows rolled down so people beside you can stare.

    December 2011

  • CureVaNiNawl

    BWAAHAAHAA AAAHHA 2,169 plays in your library

    September 2011

  • souljamike

    looking back on this album years later --- yeah, nothing else sounds like this. amazing.

    September 2011

  • therhapsody

    This album is INCREDIBLE!!

    September 2011

  • CureVaNiNawl

    fuck them RIGHT in the ear

    August 2011

  • CureVaNiNawl

    fuck EVERYONE who bashes this fucking album

    August 2011

  • Erikanunes1983

    Eu amo esse disco!

    June 2011

  • Buzku

    Really, really love this album.

    May 2011

  • anbp_victor

    love it...

    March 2011

  • lunnis

    Gold!

    February 2011

  • ElderWest

    There is no bad song on this album, maybe some questionable moments but seriously the album wouldn't be the same awesome collage without them

    December 2010
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