Hello everyone! Although we're not too keen on injecting a dino vibe on the dance floor, there exists today the chance to quite literally raise our creative voices and let our freaky selves be heard. We, the band, are taking the time out of our national tour to come home and vote. We can only hope that those of you who are age appropriate do the same....if not, grab a soapbox and convince some old asshole to do the right thing. Our futures are bigger than the crap we've been fed. Let's all do our part to insure that freaky shemales can freely prance about without fear of reprisal!
of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping Tour FALL 2008
Current mood: strong
heylolo!
we have a HUGE tour planned for this Fall. A spectacle beyond spectacles! Hope you can join us! (now including Florida ;)
<3 oM
for the latest updates also check our booking agent's website: Uncle Booking find tickets: ticketmaster, ticketweb, tickets.com, etix, livenation click on the venue links for ticket/venue info. tickets may be cheaper when buying directly from the venue.
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.
Hello all! So sorry for the lack of activity on our page this last month--we've been far-flung about the galaxy with much more interesting things to look at than computer screens. Anyway, we're back home now, so feel free to bring it ON!
We got a some comments from some of you who thought we were stone cold dissing your kind words--the comments page should be up to date now. Hope we didn't hurt any feelings!
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