Name: of Montreal
Start: 2024-06-16T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Neumos

Neumos Presents
OF MONTREAL
Tele Novella + Fight Milk
SUN, 16 JUN 2024 at 07:00PM PDT
Ages: All Ages to Enter, 21 & Over to Drink
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 08:00AM PST
Announcement: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 08:00AM PST

Kevin
Barnes
did
not
believe
they
could
ever
leave
Geor
gia.
Barnes
arrived
in
the
erstwhile
college-rock
hub
of
Athens
around
1996,
a
pop
four
-tracker
in
their
early
twenties
with
permissive
images
of
Bowie,
Prince,
and
Iggy
Pop
prancing
through
their
head.
Almost
immediately
,
of
Montreal
became
a
signal
flare
for
a
slowly
changing
South.
Barnes,
who
will
answer
to
any
pronoun
you
prof
fer
,
bent
gender
and
genre
through
complicated
and
ever
-delightful
records,
trouble
and
woe
fueling
kinetic
tunes
of
radical
incandescence.
But
there
is
only
so
much
ener
gy
one
can
expend
on
the
vanguard,
living
in
a
town
that
often
felt
like
a
frat
house
suf
fused
with
regressive
notions
of
race,
sexuality
,
and
decency
.
It
all
exhausted
Barnes.
They
had,
however
,
built
a
life
there—a
home,
a
family
,
a
studio,
a
reputation.
Could
Barnes
ever
really
exit?
The
new
Lady
On
The
Cusp
is
not
only
a
rapturous
synthesis
of
most
everything
of
Montreal
has
ever
done
but
also
Barnes’
final
transmission
from
Athens,
as
they’re
now
a
fresh
Southern
expatriate
delighted
to
be
living
among
the
snowy
peaks
and
progressive
politics
of
southern
V
ermont.
W
ritten
and
recorded
in
the
months
when
Barnes
and
partner
,
musician
Christina
Schneider
,
prepared
to
leave,
Lady
On
The
Cusp
combines
a
keen
reckoning
with
the
past
with
hopeful
glimpses
of
the
future,
all
clad
in
Barnes’
purposefully
scattershot
pop
kaleidoscopes.
The
glittering
trauma
confrontation
of
“PI$$
PI$$,”
the
devotional
R&B
surrealist
fantasy
of
“Soporific
Cell,”
the
nuevo
jazz
lamentation
of
“Sea
Mines
That
Mr
Gone”:
These
10
tracks—funny
and
sad,
sexy
and
brooding,
playful
and
serious—find
Barnes
finding
new
paths
ahead.
Barnes
is
moving
both
fr
om
situations
that
felt
suf
focating
and
towar
d
musical
ideas
that
feel
evermore
freeing.
Barnes
and
Schneider
met
nearly
seven
years
ago,
when
of
Montreal
and
Schneider
’
s
Locate
S,1,
shared
a
tour
.
They
fell
in
love
on
the
road,
and
she
relocated
to
Athens
to
begin
their
life
together
there.
Barnes
had
certainly
contemplated
leaving
the
South
but
worried
about
the
existential
anxieties:
Where
would
they
go,
for
instance,
and
how
would
they
make
friends
wherever
that
was?
Easier
just
to
stay
in
place,
right?
But
the
couple
began
visiting
V
ermont
together
,
slowly
seeing
every
season
in
the
state
where
Schneider
had
gone
to
school.
Barnes
imagined
another
way
to
exist.
What’
s
more,
Schneider—whose
own
band
was
in
part
a
vehicle
for
confronting
childhood
damage—encouraged
Barnes
to
engage
with
the
wreckage
of
their
past,
to
grow
beyond
it
in
a
way
they
admit
they
never
had.
“Christina
has
been
extremely
helpful,”
Barnes
says
with
more
than
a
touch
of
relief,
“in
realizing
that
who
you’ve
been
doesn’
t
make
you
who
you
are.”
“2
Depressed
2
Fuck”
was
the
first
song
to
emer
ge
for
Lady
On
The
Cusp
,
the
despair
of
its
title
and
hook
speaking
as
much
to
modern
inter
generational
malaise
as
any
specific
encounter
.
It
begins
with
busted
drums
and
electronic
gashes,
but
Barnes
slowly
twists
those
caustic
noises
into
a
buoyant
gem
where
the
refrain
lingers
like
a
warm
spring
dream.
Likewise,
“PI$$
PI$$”
uses
the
flotsam
of
past
trauma
as
a
springboard
into
a
thundering
dance
jam
about
leaving
that
shit
behind,
about
discarding
“the
Amygdala
hijack
furies”
that
plant
us
in
emotional
concrete.
Barnes
dreams
of
the
personal
frontier
of
V
ermont
in
the
Byrds-like
beauty
“Rude
Girl
On
Rotation,”
referencing
not
only
the
lush
forests
of
the
Green
Mountain
State
but
also
a
new
neighbor
who
loves
just
intonation
and
the
possibilities
it
presents.
And
the
brilliant
“Soporific
Cell”
is
an
unbridled
and
infectious
love
song,
Barnes’
lissome
falsetto
of
fering
up
every
bit
of
of Montreal - Lady On The Cusp - Album Bio.pdf
themselves
to
Christina
and
their
life
together
.
“I’m
prepared
to
make
an
everyday
beast
of
myself,”
Barnes
vows
over
sashaying
guitars
and
splashing
cymbals,
“only
for
you.”
Barnes
has
always
been
fond
of
linguistic
tricks,
of
Montreal’
s
catalog
loaded
with
alliteration,
puns,
and
florid
phrases
that
dare
you
to
tease
out
a
meaning
for
yourself.
But
the
two-part
finale
of
Lady
On
The
Cusp
levels
up
in
that
regard,
as
Barnes
slides
into
the
amniotic
haze
of
dream
language
for
the
two-part
finale.
They
compiled
“Poetry
Surf”
by
cutting
together
words
and
ideas
found
in
books
by
Ezra
Pound
and
James
Joyce
or
life
at
lar
ge,
so
that
“chryselephantine
chiaroscuro
cerements
[are]
unearthed.”
The
track
is
a
devilish
whirlwind,
Barnes
delighting
in
these
games
over
a
martial
beat
and
vertiginous
keys.
As
the
song
slams
into
“Genius
in
the
W
ind,”
the
bass
strutting
in
endless
circles
now
,
Barnes
sings
that
“Unwittingly
temporalist
scorched
earth
is
radio
violence,”
seeming
to
set
up
another
delirious
round
of
wordplay
.
But
listen
closely
,
and
notice
that
it
is
instead
a
pledge
of
allegiance—to
follow
someone
into
the
darkness
of
their
life
and
hopefully
come
out
better
on
the
other
side,
with
some
sex
and
music
and
fun
along
the
way
.
All
of
this
perfectly
coils
together
for
the
infectious
“Y
ung
Hearts
Bleed
Free,”
a
Bootsy
Collins-influenced,
self-deprecating
ode
to
Barnes’
heroes—“sex
maniacs”
and
“drug-addled
creeps,”
all—that
indulges
in
freedom
and
fetish.
It
is
candid,
too,
about
the
doubts
and
shortcomings
of
any
life
lived
fully
.
Nostalgia
is
not
Barnes’
thing,
never
really
has
been.
While
of
Montreal’
s
peers
from
the
mid-’00s
indie
bloom
have
often
circled
back
for
seemingly
endless
reissues,
reunions,
and
retreads,
Barnes
mostly
hasn’
t,
choosing
instead
to
press
for
novel
ways
to
make
the
kind
of
jubilant
but
tumultuous
tunes
they
have
long
loved.
W
ith
its
views
of
the
past
not
as
a
crutch
but
as
a
cage,
its
nods
to
what’
s
next,
and
sounds
that
tinker
with
the
idea
of
what
it
means
to
make
pop
at
all,
Lady
On
The
Cusp
is
a
compelling
reintroduction
to
of
Montreal—a
project
that
has
never
stalled
but
has
here
found
and
used
several
new
wellsprings
of
inspiration,
all
at
once.
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