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Of Montreal
Sunlandic Twins
Release Date: 2005 04 12
Label: Track & Field
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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

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Requiem for O.M.M.2Barnes2:19
2I Was Never YoungBarnes3:30
3Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other GamesBarnes4:15
4Forecast Fascist FutureBarnes4:22
5So Begins Our AlabeeBarnes4:15
6Our Spring Is Sweet Not FleetingBarnes1:02
7Party's Crashing UsBarnes4:53
8Knight RiderBarnes1:06
9I Was a Landscape in Your DreamBarnes3:05
10Death of a Shade of a HueBarnes2:54
11Oslo in the SummertimeBarnes3:21
12October Is EternalBarnes3:58
13Repudiated ImmortalsBarnes2:18
14Art Snob SolutionsBarnes3:23
15Actor OppobriumBarnes2:36
16Keep Sending Me Black FireworksBarnes3:28
17Everyday Feels Like SundayBarnes3:18

Other Releases:
Sunlandic Twins [Bonus Tracks]
Release Date: 2005
Label: Columbia








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