Of Montreal: Innocence Reaches
Of Montreal: Innocence Reaches
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Of Montreal
Label: Polyvinyl Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 644110031716
Genre: Rock
Limited edition colored vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. Innocence Reaches begins with a query. "How do you identify?" coos a robotic voice over a strikingly modern mix of bright synthpop and surging rave. The question too feels very of it's time-as outdated ideas about gender and attraction are being overturned-but it's also a fair ask whenever Of Montreal debuts an album. The project's 14th LP follows two full decades of mercurial creative mania: swallowing up '60s psych-pop, Prince-ly funk, and glammy prog in turn; morphing freely between full-band affair and cloistered confessional booth; comprising lyrics both painfully personal and absurdly fantastical; and recently drawing site-specific inspiration from culture capitals like San Francisco or New York City. The thread that runs through it all is Athens, GA's Kevin Barnes, and Innocence Reaches finds him at his most light-hearted in years, working a Parisian stint, Top 40 sounds, and his newfound single status into the kaleidoscopic swirl. Even as he continues to sift the sonic and emotional detritus of his past, Barnes sums up his current mood in the opener's title: "let's relate." Innocence Reaches features darker moments to be sure-isolation, anger, indifference, and the feeling that, like a Truffaut film, madness lurks just outside the frame-but as Barnes explains, "Epiphany comes from breakdown. If you can stay open and vulnerable, the nebulous becomes transparent. That's one of the magical aspects of writing from personal life."
Tracks:
1.1 Let's Relate
1.2 It's Different for Girls
1.3 Gratuitous Abysses
1.4 My Fair Lady
1.5 Les Chants de Maldoror
1.6 A Sport and a Pastime
1.7 Ambassador Bridge
1.8 Def Pacts
1.9 Chaos Arpeggiating
1.10 Nursing Slopes
1.11 Trashed Exes
1.12 Chap Pilot
