Of Montreal
Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
By Joel Cusumano
Published: February 8th, 2007 | 1:46pm
Maybe after lending the song “Wraith Pinned to the Mist (and Other Games)” to Outback Steakhouse’s campaign to sell steaks to hipsters, Of Montreal had enough flow to buy a stack of keyboards, synths, and sequencers tall enough to make Keith Emerson giggle. That could explain the band’s flaunting of electronica on
And, hey, let’s thank whatever inspired the group’s minor sonic adjustment. With the electronic trimmings on
Speaking of guitars, there’s nary one to be heard on
But, don’t fret, the mechanical touch of the arrangements rarely abandons the warmth of classic Of Montreal and there are only a couple duds here. The biggest offender is the 12-minute “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal,” in which an angry Barnes spits and curses old loves over a sinister but bland, looping chord pattern. Otherwise, the singer’s coy sense of humor is still intact, from the wry condemnation of a shallow groupie on “Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider” to the mock-Prince falsetto on “Faberge Falls for Shuggie.”
Maybe the best part of
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