As usual, after the second listen of a totally new sound from yet another album, I've come to adore this album already. You'd think after 14 albums, a band (well, ... A Kevin) would grow stale. He always keeps it fresh. Hoping for 14 more.

"Lets Relate" absolutely S L A P S. I actually haven't listened to Of Montreal in years. I listened a lot in high school, then stopped in 2014ish and haven't picked them back up until now. I am sad that I missed the release of this album, but I am happy I am listening to it now :D

Tracks like Let's Relate, A Sport and a Pasttime, Trashed Exes show me what really good production sounds like

Do kids even know how lucky they are to get a whole album for free to hear this high quality. Like, yay!

Kevin you've done it again. One of the greatest songwriters--period!

So I just got introduced to this band by my new roommates. Holy shit!!! I'm in love with this band. Although my mistake was listening to "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" on 4 tabs for the first time lol. Also Kevin is super gorgeous 😳

Polyvinyl Records is killing piracy. I buy your fantastic retro cd editions ☺

absolutely amazed by this album, im kind of sad i wasnt there for the release but im happy that i discovered them this year. definetely a woke group by its time, it seems like they were ahead of its time, just compliments and joy to give, congrats polyvinyl records for having the honor to record for them

Sorry Kevin Barnes this is a Masterpiece.

It's as if Kevin took influences from his old vocals and acoustic styles and upgraded them with new unique use of effects vocoder and synth. You can tell Kevin was really feeling this in the studio. :)

Of montreal never ever let's us down. With each one of their albums they manage to make something unique and familiar

thanks Kevin! I feel as if I'm sparring with the void trying to show you appreciation, love, or connection through this virtual medium in which i am a voiceless square photo from my own past [so unimaginable to yourself!} inspiration

Its different for girls will always hit the hardest for me. The lyrics and beat are just amazing. It basically perfectly describes what I go through and have had a shit ton of problems getting past in my life. The fact that a non-female got the lyrics so accurate is amazing

Best record label ever. Buying that vinyl to support you guys! Keep up the great work. Def Pacts is my jam.

Of Montreal rocks!!!

Through 2 listens faves are Sport, Ambassador, Chaos and Chap. Sure I'll be adding more. oM is for of Montreal, oM is for of Music.

I felt lukewarm on this album at first but flash forward 8 years into my of Montreal habit and this is THE album now lol.

Saw them last night. They were fantastic.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this♥

Enjoyed them live in Northampton, MA. Best party all year period.

This is taking a while to grow on me, but that's usually the case. I miss the sound of Lousy and I think Aureate Gloom was a glorious expansion on that sound. I'm sure I just need to re-calibrate to this record and I look forward to doing so!

@basscataz

7 жыл бұрын

you're my kind of listener. always give an album every chance. I do dig this one.

I am even more glad about this that there is a song named les chants du maldoror

@AliceYobby

3 жыл бұрын

Wow another French poetry fanatic.. cool. I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met who could appreciate Pierre Reverdy

Been waiting for this album and not disappointed, reminds me of false preist and skeletal lamping meshed. Though i kinda wish the songs would flow with each other like in past albums.

I remember listening to this band for the first time and it was just so unique and catchy love this album can’t wait for more :)

NOO i love this one!

Bravo! What a fantastic album! Stellar!

So good thank you Kevin

mind literally blown away with this album ahhhhhh so freakinguuuud

I love you Kevin Barnes

yet another great album.

Seeing them Sunday ah yeah

love the new album!

haters gonna hate? whether or not I enjoy myself is not the point of the creation. but, I love this

@ksochia12

7 жыл бұрын

Grammar? For I wander

@ksochia12

4 жыл бұрын

Who wrote this it's nonsense

my muse❤

I just found a used copy. I didn't realize it was 45RPM. EXCELLENT release. I will be keeping an eye on future releases!!!

My Fair Lady is too fucking good

slay slay slay

Always something different, and always something fucking brilliant!

Anybody else hear Syd Barrett in the beginning of Chaos Arpeggiating?

The summer before highschool until I met the band that frozen night in which we waited 3 hours in the cold confirmed the stage presence breakdown, emotionally. Oh, poop. I love everything from all the early steps. Psychedlia goddess bless all

I'm too into this.

nice

Ahhh!!!!

lol my fair lady those lyrics to real.. -.-

waiting on the return of kay kay and his weathered underground, and instead I get this

huauuuuuuuuuu Barnes...

Is Kevin the new Bowie?

boss record, Kevin.

why no "gratuitous abysses" upload? my opinion of this album has fluctuated to a dizzying degree, but i think i've settled on it being awesome.

@PolyvinylRecords

8 жыл бұрын

it's right here ;) kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZIKTu6Nve829m6g.html

of montreal can do no wrong

💜

lmc if you got the cassette

Thank you God!

@raymondpobanz6922

6 жыл бұрын

great great album oh my god.

Not sure how I feel

@raymondpobanz6922

6 жыл бұрын

you will. you will see.

That cover art though

First song reminds me of crystal castles

@_numanair_

8 жыл бұрын

That was my first thought too

@makeshift_battlefield_music

8 жыл бұрын

+Dustin Huntington damn right

@_numanair_

8 жыл бұрын

***** Chill out man. No one is saying oM is derivative of Crystal Castles, just that it sounds reminiscent of them, which is notable as this is the first oM song that sounds like this.

@peachessataniclawnmower

7 жыл бұрын

lol i do what the hell i wanna do

@peachessataniclawnmower

7 жыл бұрын

This album isn't very good from the first spin. not that impressed so far. going to have to listen a few more times.

7:52 when did of montreal become foxygen who became the rolling stones lol

My happiness and overall well-being increases every time I listen to this album. I listened to it on LSD, and it was like a mental fireworks show. I want to have romantic sex to a sport and a pastime. #grateful

It's okay.

Remarkable. Remarkable lyrics. Remarkable performers. Remarkable songwriters. Remarkable artists. Remarkable humans. This group is one of the brightest most brilliant team of intelligence ever collectively gathered into one group of talented musicians. They are remarkable. They're even remarkable live because they're authentic through and through.

@kathryn3390

7 жыл бұрын

Still writing about her, huh? No judgment, it does indeed provide for awesome lyrics.

@AliceYobby

3 жыл бұрын

@@kathryn3390 kevin has more relationships than 1 :)

@kathryn3390

3 жыл бұрын

@@AliceYobby I realize that. And kind of passed through my 'of Montreal' phase with them helping to affirm things I felt 'alone' with or to verbalize my thoughts. Still think the lyrics are stupendous.

It's interesting that every disco-influenced endeavor is hated by some fans, because that influence is part of what made Hissing Fauna one of their best albums ever. I'm glad to see them return to that influence somewhat here. Kevin seems to be at home in that, and makes some of his best songs. The Beatles-derived songs are always the most cliche and bland in my opinion, because look at the Beatles, they were literally a reduction of every other rock-and-roll, psychedelic, and hard-rock act out during that time, yet they get the credit. There were tech innovations in disco that we still use today in music, and people look down on disco so it's not appreciated. By the way, this album is great so far!!!

@videosandshit2

6 жыл бұрын

It's not that the Beatles were a reduction of every other band, it's that every other band was taking cues from the Beatles. They were that influential.

@OmSoHum

Жыл бұрын

preach

Second half > first half Album is really bottom heavy.

@AliceYobby

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on your taste

haters of this album be like "in my cracked kingdom, in my terror hive of brutal nostalgia, on some self-imposed house arrest of the mind that's useless, trying to numb the fear, the fear that deforms the negatives and makes all memories pathetic, so pathetic"

Holy guacamole, finally a delightful album in this era of blackened white kids and folk traditional bullshit

The first track reminds me of Kraftwerk.

Totally better than the last one.

Half of these views = me

More Georgie Fruit-type monologues I thought we were past this. Good album though, great except for the lyrics.

@contexted

3 жыл бұрын

how do you feel now, 4 years later?

@alexbrander5464

3 жыл бұрын

@@contexted unlike some people i don't see of montreal post-Hissing Fauna as a straight downward trajectory, i don't know how anyone could see it that way. Skeletal Lamping, Paralytic Stalks, Lousy With Sylvianbriar and Ur Fun are all favorites of mine. This album felt more like it was about taking the piss out of critics as the #1 priority and idgaf because i'm not one of those critics (different kind of critic)

@contexted

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexbrander5464 thank you for answering that, it was wholesome

5/10

Not as good as Skeletal Lamping or Paralytic Stalks. Best songs are My Fair Lady, Def Pacts, Nursing Slopes, Trashed Exes, and Chap Pilot.

@paulray3487

7 жыл бұрын

Losing Advata those two are my favourites too :-)

@jimmymagnum7372

6 жыл бұрын

Personally thought "it's different for girls" was the best.

I guess im in the minority. Not a big fan of the change in sound on this record

lmaoooooooooooo is this fucking chilwave Wtf only on the first track so dont worry about replying to this

Oh man. I'm totally bummed. I'm so disappointed in this album. This is the first one in many years that I haven't liked. :-(

@happyviewer4872

7 жыл бұрын

You took the words right out of my head.

@gamer966

7 жыл бұрын

Lol you cited two of my personal worst songs on the album (les chants and def pacts - for me les chants sounds like a leftover from aureate and def pacts has these two sections/moods that are not properly glued together, a bad version of Wintered Debts or som out of Paralytic Stalks) Interesting how opinions diverge

@frankieashworth6942

7 жыл бұрын

lets relate is horrible imo

@levicivjan593

7 жыл бұрын

Other than lets relate and a sport and a pastime I enjoy it.

@levicivjan593

7 жыл бұрын

+Matty Stephen IDK if you were talking to me, but I'm seeing them tomorrow night.

I was really taken off guard by how absolutely awful this is. What a twist, someone call Shyamalan

so this is what the hipster kids are listening to

@laurenprice6271

7 жыл бұрын

jesse lame

@videosandshit2

6 жыл бұрын

No; mainly alcoholic 30 year olds.