Of Montréal
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?


Suffer for fashion **/
Sink the Seine ***
Cato as a pun ***/
Heimdalsgate like a Promethean curse **/
Gronlandic edit **
A sentence of sorts in Kongsvinger***
The past is a grotesque animal ***
Bunny ain’t no kind of rider **/
Faberge falls for Shuggie */
Labyrinthian Pomp **
She’s a rejector ***/
We were born the mutants again with leafling ****

33/60
Score = 5.5

i do not understand of montreal. sure i can bob my head and dance along but sitting down and trying to listen to this record frustrated me. i kept feeling like there was something that i was missing. a secret. something that would unlock my brain so that when i heard these songs i would say "oh, i get it.". up until now, this has not happened. and i bet you are saying to yourself "drew! i don't understand you! you love those terrible joan of arc guys but you can't get into of montreal! what is wrong with you?" to which i would reply, "i just dunno." there are a few songs on the album that i can get into. the flow from "she's a rejector" into the last song is nice. i enjoy those two. "cato as a pun" is another one i wouldn't mind hearing again. i like the random guitar wail. that seems real to me. the line "and don't say i've changed because of course i have" is pretty great too.