Georgia-based rock band Of Montreal have announced a new album, Aureate Gloom, to be released on March 3, 2015.

The album, which is the 13th studio album from Of Montreal, will be released via Polyvinyl Records. Frontman Kevin Barnes defines the album’s title as “a golden despondency,” a summary of the overall state of his life and mental outlook while he was working on Aureate Gloom. This lends an incredibly personal, intimate feeling to the album.

“I was going through a very stormy period in my life and felt like I was just completely trashed,” says Barnes. “I might be guilty of sharing or exposing too much of my private life, but to me the best albums are those that help people connect with an artist on a deep, human level and that do so without too much artifice or evasiveness.”

Aureate Gloom was recorded directly to tape with Kevin Barnes on guitar and vocals, Clayton Rychlik on drums, Bob Parins on bass, Bennett Lewis on guitar, and JoJo Glidewell on keys. They completed nearly one song per day, even quickly writing a new song together, “Apollyon Of Blue Room.”

Aureate Gloom
01. Bassem Sabry
02. Last Rites At The Jane Hotel
03. Empyrean Abbatoir
04. Aluminum Crown
05. Virgillian Lots
06. Monolithic Egress
07. Apollyon Of Blue Room
08. Estocadas
09. Chthonian Dirge For Uruk The Other
10. Like Ashoka’s Inferno of Memory