Of Montreal

Prepare to step into the mad and depraved psyche of man-turned-woman-turned-man-again Georgie Fruit, Kevin Barnes' glammed-out alter ego. Introduced on 2007's Hissing Fauna, this character is in full schizophrenic force on Skeletal Lamping. If you think you're completely sexually desensitized, here's a chance to be shocked. Countless song snippets and graphic fantasies are nipped and tucked into a total of fifteen tracks that jolt through a disco-funk-rock orgy of frisky rhythms a la Queen, Prince, Scissor Sisters, Bee Gees, Ween, Beck, David Bowie, even the Strokes.

Kevin Barnes is a married white man whose alter ego is a black transsexual named Georgie
Fruit. Transformations come easily to the Of Montreal frontman: Over the past 11 years, he's
seamlessly morphed from low-fi indie rocker to quirky prog-pop star, and now on Skeletal
Lamping he's a glam-funk warrior, drenched in the sounds and sexuality of Prince, Freddie
Mercury and Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie. ("We can do it soft-core if you wan... More >