I don’t need to tell you that the band Of Montreal isn’t of Montreal, but of Athens, Georgia, but you completists who need to see all six bands from the Elephant 6 Collective would probably like the heads-up that they’re in town tomorrow, May 11, at the Showbox Market, or ShoMa, as I’m now calling it. Painted Palms and Beat Connection open, starting at 8 p.m.
The band has a new EP, Thecontrollersphere, out, following up their 2010 album False Priest. “I thought it would be our most accessible record, the record that most people would be able to connect with,” Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes said in an interview. “But oddly enough, it hasn’t really been perceived that way.” The next album will be “symphonic-funk.”
Barnes has been fooled before of course: “Thought you were my Annie Hall / Or at least Ali McGraw” he sings on “Famine Affair.”
Of Montreal is known as much for their performance-art costumes as Barnes’ lyricism–his brother David acts as a kind of art director, and for this tour, you’ll see Glenn Beck’s face in unexpected places. Apparently, legal quashed plans to drop hair, instead of flowers, on the audience. Enjoy.