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Dec 09, 2014 of Montreal By Mike Hilleary

Following last year’s lousy with sylvianbriar of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes recently revealed that the band’s follow-up Aureate Gloom would soon see the light of day. Today the group has officially provided details of the forthcoming LP, which will come out March 3 on Polyvinyl. “I was going through a very stormy period in my life and felt like I was just completely trashed,” says Barnes in a press release, describing the development of the record. “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.”

Leading up the album’s release, the band has debuted the effort’s opening track, “Bassem Sabry,” named after the late Egyptian activist and journalist. Scroll down below to listen to the track, as well as view the full-length’s tracklist. Of Montreal will also be hitting the road, the dates of which can also be found below.

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

of Montreal Tour Dates:

12-11 New York, NY - Baby’s All Right (Kevin Barnes solo)
01-13 Tallahassee, FL - The Moon
01-14 Pensacola, FL - Vinyl Music Hall
01-15 Gainesville, FL - High Dive
01-16 Orlando, FL - The Social
01-17 Tampa, FL - Crowbar
01-18 Miami, FL - Grand Central
1-19 Jacksonville, FL - Freebird Live
01-20 Macon, GA - Cox Capitol Theatre
01-21 Charleston, SC - The Pour House
01-22 Greensboro, NC - The Blind Tiger
01-23 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
01-24 Chattanooga, TN - Rhythm and Brews

* with Nedelle Torrisi

(www.ofmontreal.net)