Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
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It’s taken me quite a while to get around to Of Montreal’s latest album, Skeletal Lamping. I’ve been to one of their shows before, and I’ve always been impressed with their showmanship. Provocative, intriguing, entertaining. And their studio albums are usually of the same caliber, at least as studio albums go.
But after reading all the high praise for Skeletal Lamping, I was confused upon listening to the album. It is, for the most part, incoherent babbling. Perhaps I’ve grown tired of the carefully placed sexual innuendos and the cries of “Oediupus Rex” and “We can do it softcore, if you want” that emanate from the speakers. Perhaps I’ve grown tired of the redundant snyth beats, that once excited me but now bore me. Perhaps I’ve grown tired of listening to 17 tracks that hardly reach 4 minutes, and of which are composed of really 2 or even 3 different songs each.
The whole album makes for an uneasy listening experience, but not in the way that I think Of Montreal intended. It’s ADD set to music, and even the grooviest of songs like “St. Exquisite’s Confessions” gets scrambled alien sounds.
I’ll link to the album, but I really don’t suggest picking it up. Skeletal Lamping.
Listen to “St. Exquisite’s Confessions“
