Monday, November 21, 2011

First track off Paralytic Stalks

Many thanks to Elias for sharing this track that was sent to him earlier today :

Wintered Debts

Here's what he had to say about it : "I received this song in the mail today, along with other promotional material for the new album. No release date is confirmed, however, Thayer Sarrano appears in none of the photographs for the album and combined with her absence from recent shows, it appears she has left the band. I'm really sad to see her go, she was extremely talented, very fun to talk to, and above all, gorgeous!"
As for me, and after a dozen listens, I can only say that I am very impressed with the song, which starts off in some alt-folk vein before switching to something a lot more orchestral and yet raw and somewhat subdued - gone are the shiny arrangements, gone is the *gasp* funk... All in all, it's kind of taking your favorite parts from your favorite of Montreal songs (from the beginning, there are nods to The Gay Parade there, to the latest offerings, there are bits of Casualty of You), and glueing them all together to create something that's even better than you could have envisioned. Now of course it's going to make fist-pumping and singing along a lot harder... Tell us what you think about it!

EDIT : to all the real journalists who work for real blogs and music papers, the cover letter that was sent with the track does state that the song will be on Paralytic Stalks. Apparently it is track #7.

10 comments:

  1. You described it perfectly. It's old school and precious and current and awesome.

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  2. this song is Amazing! i CANT wait for the new album! Its for sure gonna be an amazing album after listening to this!

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  3. It's a great track. It'll be interesting to see how representational it is of the album as a whole. I'm guessing it isn't super representational.

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  4. HAS ANYONE NOTICED THE SMALL PIECE OF ART NEXT TO THE STREAMING VERSION OF WINTERED DEBTS ON THE NEW oM WEBSITE?!?!?!? COULD IT BE?

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  5. I don't see anything... It's all blank, and soundcloud is just using an old press picture... :/

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  6. On ofmontreal.net
    the new version of the site,
    on the right side of the page under upcoming shows is a category called listen. it has wintered debts, enemy gene, nonpareil of favor and slave translator. next to each song, when clicked on, is the albums cover. next to wintered debts is art that i have not seen before.

    do you get what i m talking about now? it comes up blank for you?

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  7. it has a person in a white suit in the middle, heads of flames beside it, a dark sky with purple topped trees on the right and left. and an assortment of other strange characters about the foreground?

    thats old artwork?

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  8. It is blank to me, but from your description, it does seem to be a picture from last year. (minus the characters in the foreground, which weren't there in my memories of it)

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  9. Thats so strange
    I just read on the e6townhall thread about wintered debts that a guy named unk0wn had confirmed what I had seen, the picture is thumbnail size, so its hard to see, but maybe check from someone elses computer?

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  10. It's the (gorgeous) old art from last year, the photo that Kevin asked Nina to paint over.

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