False Priest

AlbumSep 14 / 201015 songs, 1h 2m 9s
Indie Pop Synth Funk
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6.7 / 10

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.

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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…

5 / 10

Check out our album review of Artist's False Priest on Rolling Stone.com.

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.

7.0 / 10

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

7 / 10

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

5 / 10

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

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3.5 / 5

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