First Listen: Of Montreal, 'Aureate Gloom' — npr.org

Of Montreal's new album, Aureate Gloom, comes out March 3. Chad Kamenshine/Courtesy of the artist hide caption Of Montreal's new album, Aureate Gloom, comes out March 3. In a recent interview, Of Montreal mastermind Kevin Barnes described Aureate Gloom, the band's 13th full-length album, as "sort of all over the place musically," which is really something for an artist whose style has been scattered and spastic from the start. When other indie-pop bands were trotting out rudimentary songs, Barnes was writing elaborate suites about parades full of imaginary characters and sentient bees. Since then, he's exploded in directions that somehow make sense of affinities for Prince, David Bowie, Sly Stone and countless weirdo psychedelic bands from the '60s and beyond.

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