Blog: Hippies Are Dead

Okay, we'll admit it: our skepticism of Of Montreal had reached a fever pitch in the past year and a half. It could be for any number of reasons: Kevin Barnes stripping off his clothes in a deperate attempt to be Bowie, live shows loaded with prerecorded background tracks, or maybe just the fact that Hissing Fauna, You Are The Destroyer felt like a bit of an afterthought to The Sunlandic Twins . So, suffice it to say, when news came down the wire that the band had a new record, Skeletal [...]