Of Montreal will release the brand new studio album Lady On The Cusp on Friday, May 17 through Polyvinyl Record Co. Today, the band offers one more early taste of the new collection with the R&B influenced, artfully surreal track “Soporific Cell,” which is influenced by the Afro-Futurism of Saul Williams’ 2022 film Neptune Frost.

Accolades from a plethora of different media outlets prove that the new record is not only a rapturous synthesis of most everything Of Montreal has ever done but also Kevin Barnes’s final transmission from Athens, as they’re now “delighted to be living among the snowy peaks and progressive politics of southern Vermont.”

The new 10 song suite bends gender and genre through complicated, ever delightful and often woe fueling kinetic tunes of radical incandescence. Written and recorded in the months when Barnes and partner, musician Christina Schneider, prepared them to move, Lady On The Cusp combines a keen reckoning with the past with hopeful glimpses of the future, all clad in Barnes’s purposefully scattershot pop kaleidoscopes.

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