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Feb 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts of Montreal

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Kevin Barnes and of Montreal are releasing a new album, White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood, on March 9 via Polyvinyl. Previously of Montreal shared the album’s first single, “Paranoiac Intervals/Body Dysmorphia.” (It was one of our Songs of the Week.) Then there was a video for the song. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Plateau Phase/No Careerism No Corruption,” via a colorful video directed by Christina Eleni Schneider and Clayton Rychlik. Watch it below.

Frontman/main creative force Kevin Barnes had this to say about the song in a press release: “‘Plateau Phase/No Careerism No Corruption’ started out as a song I wrote for Janelle Monáe last summer called ‘Fucked In Your Driveway.’ We worked on it together one magical day in her laboratory at Wondaland but nothing really happened with it, so I reworked it into something very different for my own album. Lyrically, I pulled inspiration from Multiverse Theory, the writings of Wilhelm Reich and the economist Guy Standing, Eastern European party culture, and Bluets by Maggie Nelson, as well as my burgeoning new love affair with a woman of mystery and magic. We shot the video in Atlanta at an art/performance space called Rowdy Dowdy one chilly winter day this January. It was directed/edited by Christina Eleni Schneider and costumed by Taber Lathrop, Elizabeth Wheeler and David Barnes and I wore an outfit created by AC Carter.”

The band also recently shared a cover of Molly Drake’s “Love Isn’t a Right” for Amazon Music’s dual Valentine’s Day-timed “Love Me” and “Love Me Not” playlists.

The album is the follow-up to 2016’s Innocence Reaches and 2017’s Rune Husk EP.

Read our 2016 The End interview about endings and death with of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes.

of Montreal Tour Dates:

03/03 - Mexico City, Mexico @ NRMAL
03/10 - Savannah, GA @ Ships Of The Sea Museum @ Savannah Stopover
03/22 - Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club $
03/23 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle $
03/24 - Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry $
03/25 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
03/26 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club mce_markernbsp;
03/27 - Queens, NY @ Knockdown Center
03/28 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
03/29 - Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre mce_markernbsp;
03/30 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom mce_markernbsp;
03/31 - Pontiac, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom mce_markernbsp;
04/01 - Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Eccentric Café mce_markernbsp;
04/02 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall $
04/03 - Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center mce_markernbsp;
04/04 - Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s mce_markernbsp;
04/05 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall $
04/06 - Cincinnati, ON @ The Woodward Theater mce_markernbsp;
04/07 - Chattanooga, TN @ Revelry Room mce_markernbsp;
04/24 - Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle #
04/25 - Nashville, TN @ Basement East #
04/26 - Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom #
04/27 - Kansas City, MO @ recordBar #
04/28 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater #
04/29 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge #
04/30 - Garden City, ID @ Visual Arts Collective #
05/01 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos #
05/02 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom #
05/03 - Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre #
05/04 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom #
05/05 - San Diego, CA @ SOMA #
05/06 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom #
05/07 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sister #
05/08 - Fort Worth, TX @ Shipping and Receiving #
05/09 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk #
05/10 - New Orleans, LA @ The Howlin’ Wolf #
05/11 - Memphis, TN @ 1884 Lounge @ Minglewood Hall #
05/12 - Birmingham, AL @ Saturn #
06/28 - 07/02 - Barcelona, Spain @ Vida Festival

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