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10 OCT. 25,2016 THEBLUEBANNER.NET I i Photo by Megan Authement Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, with his face covered in glitter, sings at The Grey Eagle on Oct. 12. Of Montreal brings psychedelic grooves to The Grey Eagle li ONCmMEW PHILLIP WYATT A&F Editor pwyatt@unca.edu Experimental pop veterans of Montre al returned to Asheville Oct. 12 at The Grey Eagle for a theatrical performance featuring outrageous fashions, dazzling displays of visual art and psychedelic rock grooves, creating a majestic soi ree of oddities only lead singer Kevin Barnes can coordinate. Hailing from Athens, Georgia, the group has produced a myriad of eclectic electronic sounds since 1996. Of Mon treal continues its streak of spawning genre-bending work with their 14th al bum Innocence Reaches on Polyvinyl Records. Heavily influenced by contemporary electronic dance music, the entire album was written and recorded during an ex- , tended stay in Paris where Barnes sought inspiration, according to a press release. The members arrived on stage adorn ing black hooded cloaks, walking through a cloud of fog and black light in front of a background of five red penta grams. Barnes’ cloak was stitched with neon green light-up trim, smoke spilling from underneath his hood, creating an illusion of a faceless grim reaper arriv ing to snatch the souls of the wicked and damned. The band shed their mysterious, dark cloaks before opening the show with a rendition of “it’s different for girls,” the lead single off Innocence Reaches. “It’s different for girls, they don’t spit on the streets, they don’t piss on the seat, they don’t have to size up every person they meet,” Barnes sung, sporting red stockings and a short, white sheer dress and blond bob wig. The rest of the band wore white one- sies, allowing trippy geometric and floral patterns to project onto their jumpsuits. Pop art projections illuminated the band as two girls wearing unsettling female masks, often featured in horror films and bank heists, launched confetti onto the audience. Of Montreal revisited their 2008 effort Skeletal Lamping with the track “Gallery Pieee,” as the girls stepped onto the stage wearing over-sized skull masks, eventu ally gyrating to the song, inspiring the entire audience to take note and join the disco dance party. After performing “Wraith Pinned to the Mist” off 2005’s The Sunlandic Twins, the group revisited their curreni album with the track “a sport and a pas time.” Throughout the evening, the band per formed mash-ups of their tracks to fit in as much material as possible from theii eclectic repertoire, delighting viewers with new material and fan-favorites. Barnes performed a seductive strip-
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