of Montreal's Command Of Their controllersphere
By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on May 4, 2011 7:40PM
Photo by Patrick Heagney
Those two songs form the backbone of the EP, and flanking them are layers of shorter bursts of the sort of Bowie channeling Prince boogie that of Montreal have made their calling card. It's sightly disjointed stuff, it almost feels like you're stumbling around drunk in your underwear at a crowded party with all the lights inexplicably turned up high, before joyfully depositing you in the disc's closing track, "Salve Translator." You're left to dance merrily along, occasionally slowed by the jelly-fllled choruses sticking to your feet as you make your way towards the exit, only to be knocked backward by wall of black foreboding noise. Apparently there's no escaping thecontrollersphere.
The band will be in town at The Vic tomorrow, May 5. They've been on tour quite a while and we've learned that mid-tour is often the best time to see them. The kinks have been ironed out of their elaborate stage shows and the band as a whole seems more spontaneous and comfortable. Considering the last time they were in town was the best shows we'd seen them perform in many years, the prospect of tomorrow's date being even better is (almost) enough for us to splatter glitter onto our own aging torso and wrestle for a space stage center with the rest of the group's dedicated fans.
of Montreal plays Thursday, May 5, at The Vic, 3145 N Sheffield, 7:30 p.m., $22, all ages