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OF MONTREAL - CONTROLLER SPHERE
Controller Sphere, the latest 5-track EP from Kevin Barnes’ crazy crew, goes from ridiculous to sublime and back again. An oscillation that maps Of Montreal’s own trajectory in fact. Between the black noise that opens with Black Lion Massacre and ultimately closes out the EP on Slave Translator too, there’s some sparkles of their genius. On the second track, Flunkt Sass vs the Root Plume the band stretches out into a epic, psychedelic jam that is more than reminiscent of Dark Side of the Moon. And Holiday Call brings back the funky inquisition that started on Hissing Fauna.. before turning in a long Arabian-style instrumental outro. Apparently this EP is the final piece in a mysterious trilogy joining False Priest and Skeletal Lamping in the pantheon of weirdness. Only Barnes knows what any of this is about though, and even then you get the impression that perhaps he doesn’t either. But as he flits between his muses, challenging himself as much as his audience, there’s the hope that this might signal the end of the freaky pomposity from those last two full albums and a return to unpredictability.
Track listing- “Black Lion Massacre” – 5:08
- “Flunkt Sass vs the Root Plume” – 2:38
- “Holiday Call” – 8:18
- “L’age D’or” – 3:32
- “Slave Translator” – 4:13
