False Priest is due out on September 14th via Polyvinyl. Listen to the first single “Coquet Coquette” here.

of Montreal, one of the most idiosyncratic and hard working bands in the current indie scene are ready to release their new album, the follow up to 2008′s Skeletal Lamping and their eleventh in total. The new album is to be entitled False Priest and is coming out on September 14th via Polyvinyl. That odd looking image above is the album’s cover. The album features Solange Knowles and Janelle Monáe; returning the favour after of Montreal appeared on Monáe’s album earlier this year.

You can see the tracklist below and hear the song “Coquet Coquette” at the bottom of this page.

Flase Priest tracklist:

01 I Feel Ya’ Strutter
02 Our Riotous Defects [ft. Janelle Monáe]
03 Coquet Coquette
04 Godly Intersex
05 Enemy Gene [ft. Janelle Monáe]
06 Hydra Fancies
07 Like a Tourist
08 Sex Karma [ft. Solange Knowles]
09 Girl Named Hello
10 Famine Affair
11 Casualty of You
12 Around the Way
13 You Do Mutilate?

MP3: of Montreal – “Coquet Coquette”

Of Montreal, one of the most idiosyncratic and hard working bands in the current indie scene are ready to release their new album, the follow up to 2008′s Skeletal Lamping and their eleventh in total. The new album is to be entitled False Priest and is coming out on September 14th via Polyvinyl. That odd looking image above is the album’s cover. The album features Solange Knowles and Janelle Monáe; returning the favour after of Montreal appeared on Monáe’s album earlier this year.

You can see the tracklist below and hear the song “Coquet Coquette” at the bottom of this page.

Flase Priest tracklist:

01 I Feel Ya’ Strutter
02 Our Riotous Defects [ft. Janelle Monáe]
03 Coquet Coquette
04 Godly Intersex
05 Enemy Gene [ft. Janelle Monáe]
06 Hydra Fancies
07 Like a Tourist
08 Sex Karma [ft. Solange Knowles]
09 Girl Named Hello
10 Famine Affair
11 Casualty of You
12 Around the Way
13 You Do Mutilate?

MP3: of Montreal – “Coquet Coquette”

of Montreal

(with The Lost Trees)


“The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
”

[Polyvinyl; 2010]

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Filter reports that they have teamed up with American Eagle Outfitters to gather rarities, covers, and remixes from an all-star cast of musicians to create Hear to Help, a compilation to benefit the crisis in Haiti. The CD will feature Surfer Blood, Vampire Weekend, Julian Casablancas, Busdriver, Grizzly Bear, and many other notable players in today’s music scene. Check out that intriguing tracklist for yourself:

Hear to Help:

01 Beck: “Volcano” (acoustic version)
02 Snow Patrol: “You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.” (Bright Eyes cover)
03 Keane: “Black Burning Heart” (French version)
04 Air: “So Light Is Her Footfall” (Breakbot Remix)
05 Charlotte Gainsbourg: “Dandelion”
06 Julian Casablancas: “Long Island Blues”
07 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: “Am I Only” (ReMix)
08 The Breeders: “We’re Gonna Rise”
09 Vampire Weekend: “Cousinz” (Toy Selectah Mex-More Remix)
10 Noah and the Whale: “Love of an Orchestra” (Chew Fu Fix)
11 Camera Obscura: “The World Is Full of Strangers”
12 Minus the Bear: “Broken China”
13 of Montreal: “Take Me Out” (live) (Franz Ferdinand cover)
14 Busdriver: “Running Water”
15 Surfer Blood: “Take It Easy” (Drop the Lime Remix)
16 Grizzly Bear: “Boy From School” (Hot Chip cover)
17 AM: “Endings Are Beginnings” (Piano Mix)

The compilation is available at American Eagle stores from now until March 19. Starting tomorrow, it will also be available on their website. All proceeds will go to Oxfam America.

of Montreal’s live shows combine the infectious, feel-good fun of ’70s P-Funk shows and the glam theatricality of David Bowie concerts of the same era. They are one of those bands that needs a documentary. Fortunately, someone else had the same idea–thus, oM’s upcoming documentary Family Nouveau will premiere in Chicago at the Chicago International Music and Movies and Music Festival on March 5.

Filmed by English professor Spenser Simrill Jr., the documentary follows the band through their European tour from 2009. So far, there is no info regarding a future DVD release. Regardless, this documentary fits in perfectly with the oM-filled music landscape we will certainly be viewing for the next several months until the release of their forthcoming album.

Stream the preview below:

of Montreal European Tour 2009: Family Nouveau Trailer from Spenser Simrill, Jr. on Vimeo.

Newly bearded Kevin Barnes recently posted a YouTube video featuring new of Montreal material. In the video, the frontman and songwriter for the ever-changing band uses a webcam to record himself at the piano, playing a snippet from the forthcoming of Montreal LP, which will either bear the title False Priest or The Controller Sphere (At the time of this post, Barnes has not revealed his final decision).

You can stream the video below:

of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes is busy making the next oM album, and he plans to make it ten times funkier than even the funkiest moments of Skeletal Lamping.

Stereogum’s Jessica Suarez has asked the eccentric and productive of Montreal bandleader about the progress of the album, and he says pending a few upcoming sessions with producer/engineer/instrumentalist Jon Brion, the album “may or may not” be complete. “Whatever we do here, if it’s better, we’ll keep it. If it’s not, we won’t. It’s a win-win situation,” Barnes said, commenting on the record’s current state of completion. Either way, Barnes says that he aspires to aim for a ’70s sound and feel akin to the music of Stevie Wonder, George Clinton, and Curtis Mayfield, especially live, where the band aspires to tour with “ten or so” musicians.

Barnes has commented that many of Montreal songwriting hallmarks will remain, such as schizophrenic songs with two or three distinct parts and lyrical themes and characters. There was the cross-dressing Ziggy Stardust-inspired character named Georgie Fruit from 2007′s Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? and again on 2008′s Skeletal Lamping. Given the strong ’70s R&B/funk vibe expected on this next LP, who knows what kind of new characters and retro adventures will be in store.

Expect some sort of contribution from Solange Knowles, Janelle Monáe, and a couple of other surprise guests that Barnes won’t mention yet. Barnes has told Stereogum that he expects the album to get released “sometime in August or September,” and until then, he will be stuck trying to decide between the titles False Priest or The Controller Sphere.

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