Hindustan Times
Some bands you can only enjoy listening to them live. I’ve been listening to the Athens (Georgia) based American band, Of Montreal, for a while now. They have been around since the late 1990s and have nearly a dozen studio albums out. Their music is difficult to classify—and driven by frontman, singer and guitarist Kevin Barnes, they have fused and hopped genres as widely disparate as catchy indie pop, glam rock, experimental and psychedelic rock and deeply brooding lo-fi music. That last kind of music was what characterised Of Montreal’s 2007 album, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, a dark and very personal kind of work. I don’t know whether I was fortunate or otherwise that Hissing Fauna was the first album by the band that came my way. Read more
(8 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Are You the Destroyer?, Carousel Ballroom, Download Central, Elmore James, Fillmore Auditorium, Fleetwood Mac, Freddy King, Hissing Fauna, Jefferson Airplane, Jeremy Spencer, Jimi Hendrix, Kevin Barnes, lo-fi music, Miles Davis, Of Montreal, Paralytic Stalks, Peter Green, psychedelic rock, Sanjoy Narayan, Sigur Rós, Spiritualized, Sunlandic Twins, Valtari, Wolfgang’s Vault
