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Universal acclaim- based on 61 Ratings
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Positive: 54 out of 61
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Mixed: 2 out of 61
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Negative: 5 out of 61
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AlexOct 28, 2008At first, I was somewhat turned off by this album. After a few listens the songs started catching on and now I love the album. It is definitely a grower.
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JockoS.Oct 22, 2008Unbelievably creative.
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OliverC.Oct 23, 2008Totally worth it for the song "plastis wafers" every switch is welcome and perfect.
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DaveS.Oct 23, 2008If you can get through the first listen, it only gets more rewarding. By the 3rd..4th..it just might be the most fun you'll have with music this year. A true achievement. It's Kevin Barnes, letting it all hang out.
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RobertS.Oct 24, 2008Greatest. Album. Quite possibly ever made.
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SoftcorEOct 27, 2008
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TimROct 21, 2008Takes some listening, but I've found this is just as wholly addictive as their previous efforts.
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AndrewP.Oct 21, 2008
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BradW.Oct 21, 2008This album is amazing and addicts you like a young toddler to peppermint candies. Although reference to sex and drugs is extremely high, the 15 songs in this album all are refreshingly deceiving and fester inside your head for weeks. Once you go "Of Montreal", you'll never go back.
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mickeyPOct 22, 2008
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DrewOct 26, 2008
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JoshGOct 28, 2008I felt slightly let down at first, kinda like it lacked some soul.. after i started wrapping my head around it I just fell more and more in love. thank god for Kevin. I just saw it performed in concert last night. Too bad the Riviera is a hellhole.
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Nov 30, 2010The best of Montreal album to date, which is saying a lot. Completely original and innovative album, unlike anything you've heard before. Kevin Barnes isn't just changing his own style, he's completely changing indie music as we know it.
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Jan 13, 2013Good album. But nothing great in comparison. Kevin Barnes seems to be all over the place and isn't able to sit down and really build off of any one sound. There are great pieces here and there, but the constant change wears it down.
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Oct 11, 2014Though excessive in terms of lyrics themes (sex and drugs), the tremendous imagination, twistes, arrangements and originality of Montreal portrays from the first second to the last one, make Skeletal Lamping a delicious masterpiece that gets you hooked from the beginning... and forever.
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Some people are going to think this is a masterpiece, the equal of "Hissing Fauna." Others will call it a self indulgent mess that pushes indie-rock somewhere it really wasn't meant to go. Personally, I think both those sound about right.
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Lamping has some catchy songs and some interesting lyrics, but feels too inconsequential, too easily sloughed off.
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Barnes plays virtually every instrument. It's impossible not to be impressed by such virtuosic preening. Ultimately, though, only one artist in the world can get away with this shtick for an entire hour-long album.