Of Montreal - False Priest

If you thought Skeletal Lamping was a fairly nutso tangent for Of Montreal to boogie down after Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer then you’re likely to be both pleased and disappointed with this one. Kevin Barnes and co certainly seemed liberated with the critical success of HF and whilst the last record was one of extreme indulgence and fantasy this one at least manages to pull some of that exuberance down to a few tunes. So that’s a blessing and a curse - the tunes are kinda fun when honed a bit but remind you of the times when their 3 minute pop gems were touching, lo-fi gems instead of epic, sex-funk operatic odysseys.