Of Montreal

of Montreal is an American indie pop band formed in Athens, Georgia. Fronted by Kevin Barnes, it was among the second wave of groups to emerge from The Elephant 6 Recording Company.

Style
The group has a style that is typical of many Elephant 6 bands due to its interest in combining musical experimentation and the basic tenets of pop, such as catchy melodies and sing-along choruses. The band's style has been influenced by not only more conventional indie pop and psychedelic music, but also by vaudeville and music hall on their earlier releases and by afrobeat, funk, krautrock and reggae in their more recent releases.

The band's style has been known to change between albums. At first, the band embraced a more simple, quirky, lo-fi indie pop sound, which occasionally bordered on twee pop. Later the band moved to a fuller sound, as seen on the concept albums The Gay Parade, and its follow-up, Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse. These albums contain more narrative lyrics, as opposed to the rather personal lyrical matter of those preceding it, and often imitating the style of old 1950s radio plays.

2004's Satanic Panic in the Attic marked the result of an evolving change in style. The sound shifted to something more electronic with traditional structures, to be further advanced in later albums and new songs. In their most recent releases and concerts, the band has fully embraced a sort of techno-pop glam image, with little of their previous incarnations surfacing.

Side projects
True to the style of most Elephant Six recording artists, Of Montreal's members have been in a variety of side projects and other bands.

The band itself has performed as the backing band for Marshmallow Coast on record and on tour.
My First Keyboard was the pseudonym used by Dottie Alexander to release the song "The You I Created" on the Kindercore singles club. Of Montreal acted as her backing band.
Kevin Barnes did a comedy tour with his wife, Nina, and his brother, David, called "A Pollinaire Rave".
Jamey Huggins released an album under the name "James Husband" which featured a cover of The Beatles' "We Can Work it Out".
Bryan Poole has a solo career as the Late B.P. Helium.
Kevin Barnes has recently been collaborating with Andrew VanWyngarden from MGMT, on a project called Blikk Fang (formerly Ocelot Fang).[6]
Derek Almstead has worked with many artists as a musician and engineer including his collaboration with Andy Gonzales M Coast, Elf Power, Circulatory System, and many more.
Kevin Barnes played keyboard in a song on Bright Eyes' album Letting Off the Happiness.
Ahmed Gallab has a solo career as Sinkane
The song "Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)" can be heard on radio and television commercials with words changed for an advertisement for Outback Steakhouse. Similarly, their song "Every Day Feels Like Sunday" was used in television commercials for NASDAQ and Garmin GPS systems, "Gronlandic Edit" was used for a T-Mobile commercial, the song "A Sentence of Sorts In Kongsvinger" was used in a Comcast commercial.

The bands music was also used in ABC's show Ugly Betty episode "Sisters on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" the song used was "The Party's Crashing Us".



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Avant tout un groupe de Live

Chui perplexe la vis a vis de ce que j'ai écouter

Comme dit QQ, je pense que tout doit être dans les lives oui. Du point de vue purement musical, je suis un peu perdue aussi, ça me paraît très "mélangé" comme style.

Bah c'est de la pop complètement barrée mais je pense qu'il faut les voir en live pour vraiment les apprécier à leur juste valeur ...

C'était le meilleur concert de ta vie ?

Non Obviously, je suis pas fan du groupe (Fan dans le sens à fond dedant même si bien sur j'adore les 3 albums que j'ai d'eux), mais j'ai pris une claque plus grande que ce que j'éspèrais, j'ai vraiment adoré sans connaitre la moitié des songs qu'ils ont joué So pour quelqu'un qui est fan je pense que c'est difficile de voir meilleur concert c'est clair ...

p'tain t'as écrit toute la présentation du groupe en anglais, respect !

Ouai j'me suis bien fait chier j'suis assez fier j'dois dire !

C'est un copié collé je suis sûr

P'tain mais c'est bien toi ça kouzou, tout de suite tu dis des trucs du genre

C'est clair le mec aucun respect

Ah désolé les gars lol...

Ils passent à Lyon le 15 juillet avec TV On The Radio, j'me souvient plus si y'a des membres sur Lyon mais s'il y'en a et qu'ils aiment un minimum la pop ça vaut le coup d'aller prendre la claque scénique de sa vie ... Par contre ils jouent pas en tête d'affiche, je sais pas si ça affecte leur show ...



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Je les vois ce soir à Bruxelles

C'était cooool Et en sortie de scène ils sont tout simplement descendus dans le public y'avait tout le groupe au bar c'était awesome