Nov 05
of Montreal Flagpole Article
Posted by jeff on Wednesday Nov 5, 2008 Under Reviews
Athens’ Flagpole weekly has published an in-depth article by Chris Hassiotis on of Montreal’s evolving aesthetic. Thanks to sugarcookie for the link.
Flagpole: of Montreal – Pioneers of Sound, Vision and Performance
November 5th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
“There was this character I created called Georgie Fruit, and now I wish I never did, because people are like, “is that a Kevin Barnes song, or a Georgie Fruit song?”… and really there’s no difference. They’re all Kevin Barnes songs, and I don’t like that idea of people seeing a division. I think people would see that as less genuine, but it seems like it’s not based in reality, like you’re writing from the point of view of a fictional character. That’s too much like a defense mechanism. I want all my songs to be like, really coming from the heart and maybe if they’re not about something that’s physically happened, like a physical experience that I’ve had, I don’t really make a division between the physical and the dream state or the emotional state. I don’t really make the division. If you fantasize about something that’s just as real as if you really did it.”
I feel like no one is really getting this. So many people are stubbornly saying “oh this is a Georgie Fruit song, and this is a Kevin Barnes song.” This article said that too. I think that this super album deserves to be properly understood. BTW, just wanted to say thanks for an unbelievingly amazing Halloween show.