{"id":15007,"date":"2013-01-31T15:36:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=15007"},"modified":"2013-01-31T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:36:48","slug":"watch-of-montreal-unplugged-on-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/watch-of-montreal-unplugged-on-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Of Montreal Unplugged On NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had an inkling of a (temporary?) seismic-shift in the band <strong>Of Montreal<\/strong> and its leader <strong>Kevin Barnes<\/strong> last summer when Barnes and crew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-05\/of-montreal-unplug-and-ask-what-have-they-done-to-my-song-ma\/\">appeared unplugged on<strong> Bandstand Busking<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Gone was a good portion of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-09\/bass-is-loaded-of-montreal-at-bat\/\">flash and flamboyance<\/a><\/strong> the band is known for live, supplanted by four musicians playing unplugged and plucking at heartstrings.\u00a0 Now comes an even-more subdued Barnes (together with <strong>Rebecca Cash<\/strong>&#8211;looking more like a <strong>Presley<\/strong> than a <strong>Cash<\/strong> to us&#8211;and\u00a0<strong>Bryan Poole<\/strong> on first song <strong>Feminine Effects<\/strong>), performing three very personal new songs for <strong>NPR&#8217;s Tiny Desk Concert<\/strong>.\u00a0 The net effect (e.g. on <em><strong>Imbecile Rages<\/strong><\/em>) sounds a bit like <strong>Stephen Malkmus-Meets-Bob Dylan-inside-Noah and the Whale<\/strong>.\u00a0 All good in our book, though <strong>Barnes&#8217; vocalistics<\/strong> at 7:28 set him apart from the others listed.\u00a0 Check it out after the setlist below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Set List<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Feminine Effects<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Imbecile Rages<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Amphibian Days<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Of Montreal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_rf7Gw0mj7I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had an inkling of a (temporary?) seismic-shift in the band Of Montreal and its leader Kevin Barnes last summer when Barnes and crew appeared unplugged on Bandstand Busking.\u00a0 Gone was a good portion of the flash and flamboyance the band is known for live, supplanted by four musicians playing unplugged and plucking at heartstrings.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}