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Of Montreal
Released 2005

Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games
04:15
76,749 plays

Art Snob Solutions
03:23
5,256 plays

Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks
03:28
4,644 plays

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- 1
- Requiem For O.M.M. 2
- 02:19
- 20,322 plays

- 2
- I Was Never Young
- 03:30
- 23,335 plays

- 3
- Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games
- 04:15
- 76,749 plays

- 4
- Forecast Fascist Future
- 04:22
- 24,663 plays

- 5
- So Begins Our Alabee
- 04:15
- 22,571 plays

- 6
- Our Spring Is Sweet Not Fleeting
- 01:02
- 12,866 plays

- 7
- The Party's Crashing Us
- 04:53
- 28,227 plays

- 8
- Knight Rider
- 01:06
- 12,924 plays

- 9
- I Was A Landscape In Your Dream
- 03:05
- 14,051 plays

- 10
- Death Of A Shade Of A Hue
- 02:54
- 12,089 plays

- 11
- Oslo In The Summertime
- 03:21
- 25,701 plays

- 12
- October Is Eternal
- 03:58
- 14,219 plays

- 13
- The Repudiated Immortals
- 02:18
- 13,715 plays

- 14
- Art Snob Solutions
- 03:23
- 3,147 plays

- 15
- The Actor's Opprobrium
- 02:36
- 2,969 plays

- 16
- Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks
- 03:28
- 2,842 plays

- 17
- Everyday Feels Like Sunday
- 03:18
- 3,144 plays

- 14
- Art Snob Solutions
- 03:23
- 5,256 plays

- 15
- The Actor Oppobrium
- 02:36
- 4,117 plays

- 16
- Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks
- 03:28
- 4,644 plays

- 17
- Everyday Feels Like Sunday
- 03:18
- 4,436 plays

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album review

Kevin Barnes' seventh Of Montreal album continues in his traditional vein of toying and teasing our memories of '60s pop, fed through whichever other fad or fashion most appeals to him at the time. In this instance, it's "21st century ADD electro-cinematic avant disco," which is a deliciously protracted way of saying quirky rhythms, lush harmonics, and a warm spot on the same side of the bed that the Polyphonic Spree occasionally share. The most deceptive angle to the album probably has to do with the titles -- it's unlikely whether the most obtuse mind could ever imagine tapping its toes to something called "Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)," while "Forecast Fascist Future" simply shouldn't sound like a British Beach Boys, pebble-dashed with Ray Davies' finest harmonic daydreams, and then piped into a nursery where the infant Frank Zappa lays sleeping. Elsewhere, "Our Spring Is Sweet, Not Fleeting" may be little more than a minute long, but you live through great swathes of Rosemary's Baby while it's playing. To harp on about the "obvious" precedents that aging ears can pick out of Of Montreal's sonic stew, however, is to overlook all that is so savagely entertaining about their music (plus, it makes them sound like a High Llamas tribute band, which is unfair as well). Rather, Sunlandic Twins is an album to leave playing while you're going about your daily business. Then see how quickly you discover its 13 tracks burrowing so deeply into your skull that it's as though you'd lived with its jerking, burbling, and never less than transcendental swirlings for ever. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide