False Priest

Kevin Barnes delivers more ambitious psych-pop in the vein of Hissing Fauna or Skeletal Lamping, here with help from Jon Brion and Janelle Monáe.

For more than 10 years, Kevin Barnes has labored alone at molding Of Montreal’s kaleidoscopic recorded vision. This arrangement has its benefits—Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? would lack a crucial element of claustrophobia if it had been recorded in a proper studio—but it also meant there was no one around to…

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This album will be a certified Autumn fave.

The journey that of Montreal's Kevin Barnes has been on both in music and in life over the past decade-plus has been colorful, to say the least.

“You fetishistize the archetype,” of Montreal ringleader Kevin Barnes chides on track “Like a Tourist.” Perhaps he’s scolding himself.

The band has established itself as consistently adept at melding inanity with seriousness via batshit songs that are gaudy while socially conscious.

Kevin Barnes is joined by Janelle Monae and Solange Knowles for an excursion into indie-funk. By <strong>Charlotte Richardson Andrews</strong>

of Montreal - False Priest review: Kevin Barnes goes back to being Kevin Barnes.