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EP FREE A S S O C I ATIO N Of Mont real But first, a sampling of lyrical excerpts from Of Montreal’s ninth album, Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl): “I’m a motherfucking headline, and bitch, you don’t even know it.” (“Wicked Wisdom”) “We can do it softcore if you want, but you should know that I go both ways.” (“For Our Elegant Caste”) “I’m so sick of suckin’ the dick of this cruel, cruel city.” (“St. Exquisite’s Confessions”) In other words: just a few reasons why Of Montreal’s latest is possibly the band’s best and certain to be its most polarizing. Other reasons include guitar freak-outs, straight-up soul songs, beats galore and multi-movement opuses that make the Fiery Furnaces seem modest. What the hell is Kevin Barnes thinking? self-titled pressed the bandleader to explain a few of Skeletal Lamping’s most provocative tracks. Now it all makes sense. Actually, not at all. AUSTIN L. RAY “ W IC K E D W I SDOM” “A knife in the water and perhaps one to the throat of modern-day unicorn poachers. Unicorn soy meat on the counter and on the breath. The political strain can be felt. I have noticed a variety of insects. White girls do have plenty of ideas. Just ask Le Tigre. Yoko Ono wrote me a postcard once. I guess she’s not really white, though. She probably looks it, in some lights. Tom Waits is probably not a racist. Gender rolls are being served at the Holiday Inn Express, and the business class is losing their shit, like, for real. There is no real reason to pick on Phaidon Press. No one has a problem with them, save one or two temps.” “FOR OUR ELEGA N T CAS TE” “The girls like the pink wombs, and the boys like the gray ones. No martial plan has been adopted or enforced. The uniforms have been purchased and the iron-ons have been considered. When it comes to over-self-medicating, Dr. Ohm is asleep on the couch again. Frightened, cornered Gemini tactics and attempts to crack the party code. That’s what I had to offer my first psychiatric evaluation. ‘Don’t you realize that the stars have moved and you are not the astrological sign that has been assigned to you?’ But this must not be true! Anyways there were dreams of teeth eroding, and I just wanted to ask about the significance of a reptilian presence.” “ G A LLE RY P IE C E ” “Manely hair was on the sign I passed often in my teenage years. It may still be erect. God only knows, and the people of Palm Beach Gardens. I went there once to see about getting a trim. The sign had a proud lion in black and white. He might have been roaring. He might have been transgender. God only knows with lions, you know? Anyways, I also remember an incident that occurred outside of the Burger King on the same street. This girl we knew worked there, and she had this really fucked-up boyfriend. Once he picked a fight with a customer who was ordering something at the drive-through. The boyfriend was out of control. He’s probably a meth head now and a catholic priest. To be queered out in a place like that is unfortunate. Luckily, mine came at the hands of the Swedes.” 26 “ S T. E X Q U I S I T E ’ S C O N FE S S I O N S ” “My mother had a copy of the Confessions of St. Augustine in our bathroom when I was in high school. I never read it, but I liked the title. I liked the sinister quality of it. What sort of confessions could this saint have to make? If I were a saint, I decided, I would want to be known as St. Exquisite. I love the word exquisite because it is so dramatic and ridiculous. It can only be used to describe something that cannot truly be exquisite. For example, a large gold- and diamondencrusted pinky ring or a $500,000 wedding cake or something like that. I love when it is used in softcore porn movie titles like Exquisite Rendezvous. 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