Of Montreal (thing)

Athens, Georgia based indiepop band associated with the Elephant 6 Recording Company; fronted by Kevin Barnes and named after a particularly bad breakup that happened when he went to go visit a long-distance girlfriend in, strangely enough, Montreal. This inauspicious beginning is more prominent on the band's first two LPs (Bedside Drama is, in fact, devoted entirely to one couple's dissolving relationship) but in the midst of all their sugary-sweet melodies and blissful harmonies is a very real sense of longing and wistfulness.

And then Kevin writes songs about baby spiders reincarnated as intergalactic horses and happy nuns and magnificently tall invisible trees. It all balances out in the end.

Discography:

• Cherry Peel (8/1997, remastered and rereleased 7/1999)
• The Bird Who Ate The Rabbit's Flower EP (10/1997, rereleased with added material as The Bird Who Continues To Eat The Rabbit's Flower 1/1999)
• Nicki Lighthouse 7" single (1998)
• The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy (6/1998)
• The Gay Parade (1/1999)
• A Celebration of H. Hare 7" single (Happy Happy Birthday To Me Single of the Month Club, 2000)
• Horse and Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed): The Singles and Songles Album (4/2000)
• Archibald of the Balding Sparrows 7" single (2000)
• The Girl From NY Volume 12 7" single (Kindercore Singles Club, 2000)
• The Early 4-Track Recordings (1/2001)
• Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse (4/2001)
• Inside A Room Full Of Treasures A Black Pygmi Horse's Head Pops Up Like A Periscope 7" single (2001)
• An Introduction to Of Montreal (compilation of earlier material released only on vinyl, 2001)
• Then Who Will Protect Big Oil, Our Children? (tour-only, 2002)
• Aldhil's Arboretum (9/2002)

7" discography help from ofmontreal.net