Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Of Montreal's darkest and most experimental record to date, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer gorily chronicles frontman Kevin Barnes' recent relationship woes, all while rebuilding the band as a mechanical synth-pop/glam hybrid.
It's not like Kevin Barnes has never written sad songs with coherent lyrics—he lurched in and out of good moods between his acid-fueled romps through the thesaurus on Of Montreal's last two albums, The Sunlandic Twins and Satanic Panic In The Attic—but it's a little surprising to hear nearly an entire album of them.…
Despite Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? being Of Montreal’s eighth release, a history lesson is in order for added clarity. The Denver-based Elephant 6 collective cradled and spawned such brilliant illustrations of indie rock in the 90s as Neutral…
After an impressive showing with 2004's Satanic Panic in the Attic and a jubilant follow-up in 2005's Sunlandic Twins, Of Montreal captain Kevin Barnes fell on some peculiar times.
Of Montreal mastermind Kevin Barnes is some kind of unhinged, tragically little-known genius.