Skeletal Lamping, de Of Montreal, está listo

Kevin, ya te estaba extrañando. No me esperaba que me fueras a emocionar nuevamente sino hasta el próximo año con el nuevo álbum, pero aquí ya me tienes con mi radar puesto en tu dirección.

Hoy Kevin Barnes, cabecilla de Of Montreal, escribió una entrada en el blog oficial de la banda y sin más ni más, aquí está:

i’ve finished the new album. i’ve been working on it for over a year. it’s mastered and ready to go.

it won’t come out till october though. i am very happy with it. i worry that some people are going to misunderstand it. there’s nothing i can do about that though, now, it is done. anyways,i didn’t create it to give people something to like. i created it because i was compelled to.

it is possible to view this album as one long composition, with lots of different movements, or just as a collection of pop songs. i wanted to make an album that was unpredictable and, at times,startling, yet always hummable and catchy. some of the transitions are intentionally awkward. i did this to keep the listener off guard and to dismantle people’s perception of how an album is supposed to be constructed. i am so bored with art that makes sense and “works”. i wanted to do somethings that didn’t “work”. very few things pique our interest while they are working as we expect them to, things are far more interesting when they are not working. shocking people though, just for the sake of it, is so mundane. nothing on Skeletal Lamping was intended to shock. i just feel that,in most contemporary songs, you can basically finish the artist’s sentences,musically and lyrically. i wanted to make an album where that was not possible.

i wanted to make a record that could truly surprise a listener. to create something that was, in turns, enraging, joyous, discomforting, playful, lovely, unpleasant, freaky, mesmeric…something that came close to capturing the labyrinthine complexity of this human consciousness.

i spend most of my time in a state of mild confusion and pensiveness. i imagine most people do too. this record is my attempt to bring all of my puzzling, contradicting, disturbing, humorous…fantasies, ruminations and observations to the surface, so that i can better dissect and understand their reason for being in my head. hence the title, Skeletal Lamping. Lamping is the name of a rather dreadful hunting technique where, hunters go into the forest at night, flood an area in light, then shoot,or capture,the animals as they panic and run from their hiding places.

this album is my attempt at doing this to my proverbial skeletons. i haven’t yet decided if i should shoot or just capture them though.

Oficialmente emocionado por aquí. Para los que no saben o tienen memoria peor que la mía, Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer? de Of Montreal fué mi mejor álbum del 2007 hace 6 meses y todavía sostiene el título. Esa es más que una razón para estar ya utilizando los motores de búsqueda de Google, y después de esa descripción que Kevin hace del álbum, cómo no?

[Stream Album: Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, are You the Destroyer?, Sunlandic Twins, Satanic Panic in the Attic]