On Thursday, June 20th @ 1pm, Frontal Lobe speaks with Kevin Barnes, the creative visionary behind the long standing Athens based project, of Montreal.
Later that same evening, of Montreal will headline The UC Theatre along with support from local Bay Area band, Healing Potpourri, and Austin duo, Tele Novella. Show starts at 8pm and is ALL AGES.
Kevin Barnes has graced countless stages, tv screens, dancefloors and stereos as well as making a political impact in their local community and beyond for nearly three decades.
Barnes’ final transmission from Athens, Lady On The Cusp, combines a keen reckoning with the past with hopeful glimpses of the future, all clad in Barnes’ purposefully scattershot pop kaleidoscopes.
Nostalgia is not Barnes’ thing, never really has been. While of Montreal’s peers from the mid-’00s indie bloom have often circled back for seemingly endless reissues, reunions, and retreads, Barnes mostly hasn’t, choosing instead to press for novel ways to make the kind of jubilant but tumultuous tunes they have long loved. With its views of the past not as a crutch but as a cage, its nods to what’s next, and sounds that tinker with the idea of what it means to make pop at all, Lady On The Cusp is a compelling reintroduction to of Montreal—a project that has never stalled but has here found and used several new wellsprings of inspiration, all at once.
