Paralytic Stalks
This is, without a doubt, Kevin Barnes' most fragmented record since the tail end of the project's Elephant 6 days.
Since 2007’s ambitious, masterful Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, absorbing an Of Montreal album has become a feat akin to eating Thanksgiving dinner for four—then going out for fusion tacos. There’s a lot to take in. Paralytic Stalks finds frontman Kevin Barnes once again attempting to exorcise his personal…
Of Montreal's magnificent new musical confusion: simultaneously frustrating, self-loathing, insecure, thrilling, deranged, and always completely honest.
Paralytic Stalks, the eleventh album by Athens, GA-based of Montreal, does not suffer from lack of ambition. The length —…
It's impossible to investigate Paralytic Stalks, Of Montreal's obtuse 11th album, without looking at the band's pinnacle: 2007's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
On dance-prog epic "Ye, Renew the Plaintiff," of Montreal freak-genius Kevin Barnes nearly screams himself hoarse: "I'm desperate for something, but there's no human word for it/I should be happy, but what I feel is corrupted, broken, impotent, and insane
Of Montreal 'Paralytic Stalks' album review on Northern Transmissions.
Kevin Barnes's 11th Of Montreal album does little to tone down his cosmic psychedelic cacophony, but the tunes are still in there somewhere, writes <strong>Tim Jonze</strong>