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Record Review: of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

Oct 22, 2008, 12:20am

Record Review: of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

Of Montreal-Skeletal Lamping [Polyvinyl], Released October 21st When I sat down to listen to this album my good buddy Frank and I drank a pint of acid and got ourselves extremely comfortable and naked in a barricaded motel room. Frank didn't make it, but not before writing all over the walls "When bread becomes toast it can never go back to being bread" with a magic marker he smuggled in. This experience, along with the loss of Frank, may have skewed my view of the album permanently. [...]

Artists: David Bowie, Elliott Smith, John Cameron Mitchell, Of Montreal, The Olivia Tremor Control, Orgy, Shortbus, The Zombies

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