Rock band, Of Montreal, has announced the release of their new album Innocence Reaches, set to come out on August 12, 2016. The album is to be released via Polyvinyl records, a record company that was founded in 1994 and is located in the Champaign-Urbana Illinois area.
This is the band’s 14th studio album, and is the follow-up to Aureate Gloom and Snare Lustroos Doomings, both of which were released in 2015. The first single from the group album, “it’s different for girls,” premiered on June 1st on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show. Kevin Barnes, Of Montreal’s front man, stated he was greatly influenced by contemporary music while Innocence Reaches was being made in Paris. “Forever I’ve been detached from current music,” he explains. “I got into this bubble of only being in some other time period. I came up picking apart the Beach Boys, the Beatles, and symphonic pieces. But last year, I was hearing Jack Ü, Chairlift, Arca, and others, thinking about low end and sound collage. It was an extra layer to geek out on.”
It seems the album became a sort of family affair, while Kevin was busy creating the album, his brother David, was busy creating the album art. The art is a way for Barnes to express his “wonderment for the female anatomy.”
Innocence Reaches:
01 let’s relate
02 it’s different for girls
03 gratuitous abysses
04 my fair lady
05 les chants de maldoror
06 a sport and a pastime
07 ambassador bridge
08 def pacts
09 chaos arpeggiating
10 nursing slopes
11 trashed exes
12 chap pilot
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