The Athens, Georgia band has been making shape-shifting music since 1996.
If you want to hear what this band does, start with 'Gronlandic Edit' from that 2007 album. It gives you the whole picture in one song.
Of Montreal matters because they've created a whole musical universe that keeps changing shape. 'Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?' in 2007 was a real turning point, with songs like 'Gronlandic Edit' and 'The Past Is a Grotesque Animal' showing how they could mix orchestral arrangements with psychedelic pop. Later tracks like 'Paranoiac Intervals/Body Dysmorphia' and 'Writing The Circles/Orgone Tropics' kept pushing into electronica and folk territory without losing that pop foundation.
They started in Athens, Georgia in 1996 with Kevin Barnes writing everything. Early albums like 'Cherry Peel' and 'The Gay Parade' had that psychedelic pop feel. After 'Hissing Fauna' in 2007, they've put out over fifteen albums including 'Skeletal Lamping' and 'Innocence Reaches,' with Barnes as the constant member while other musicians came and went.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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