Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | ||||
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Released | January 7, 2007 | |||
Recorded | January 2005 - March 2006 | |||
Genre | Indie pop, glam rock, art pop, experimental pop, neo-psychedelia | |||
Length | 51:22(CD) 68:32 (LP) | |||
Label | Polyvinyl | |||
Producer | Kevin Barnes | |||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 80/100[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The A.V. Club | B[3] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[4] |
The Guardian | [5] |
Los Angeles Times | [6] |
NME | 7/10[7] |
Pitchfork | 8.7/10[8] |
Q | [9] |
Rolling Stone | [10] |
Spin | [11] |
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? is the eighth album by American indie pop band of Montreal, released on January 7, 2007. The album was written, performed, and recorded by Kevin Barnes, with assistance from friends and family: prominent Elephant Six members Bryan Poole, Jamey Huggins and Heather McIntosh, as well as Barnes' wife Nina Grottland, credited as Nina Twin, and daughter Alabee Barnes, credited as Alabee Blonde. Credits also feature Georgie Fruit, a glam rockalter ego of Barnes.
Background[edit]
Barnes has described the album as a concept album, detailing their transformation from Kevin Barnes into Georgie Fruit. Georgie Fruit exists as Kevin Barnes' alter ego, which they will assume for the final half of the album, as well as the two subsequent LPs, Skeletal Lamping and False Priest. According to 'Labyrinthian Pomp,' Georgie Fruit is a 'dark mutation for my demented past time.' The transformation takes place during 'The Past Is a Grotesque Animal,' the 12-minute-long 'turning point' of the album. In addition, the album namechecks many things commonly associated with glam rock, such as drugs, art and fashion; 'The Past Is a Grotesque Animal' alludes to Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and specifically mentions Georges Bataille's novella Story of the Eye.
Barnes credits their being prescribed antidepressants with the making of the album. 'The real issue was a chemical thing, so when I finally got on medication, that balanced it out. So that helped me have a better perspective on things and helped my relationship with my wife and helped me through [the album].'[12] 'Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse', the album's first single, chronicles their struggle with chemical imbalance and mood disorders.
Track listing[edit]
All songs written by Kevin Barnes.
- 'Suffer for Fashion' – 2:59
- 'Sink the Seine' – 1:04
- 'Cato as a Pun' – 3:02
- 'Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse' – 3:18
- 'Gronlandic Edit' – 3:24
- 'A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger' – 4:54
- 'The Past Is a Grotesque Animal' – 11:52
- 'Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider' – 3:51
- 'Faberge Falls for Shuggie' – 4:31
- 'Labyrinthian Pomp' – 3:21
- 'She's a Rejecter' – 4:02
- 'We Were Born the Mutants Again with Leafling' – 4:57
Bonus tracks on Australian edition[edit]
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- 'She Fell in Love' – 2:21
- An alternate title for 'Du Og Meg', based on the first line of the song.
- 'Voltaic Crusher' – 2:04
Bonus tracks on double vinyl release[edit]
The double vinyl release of the album contains the twelve tracks on the first three sides. The fourth side contains four bonus tracks, which can also be found on the EP Icons, Abstract Thee.
- 'Du Og Meg' – 2:21
- 'Voltaic Crusher/Undrum to Muted Da' – 2:04
- 'Derailments in a Place of Our Own' – 3:03
- 'No Conclusion' – 9:42
Charts[edit]
Album[edit]
Year | Chart | Position |
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2007 | The Billboard 200 | 72 |
2007 | Billboard Top Independent Albums | 2 |
References[edit]
- ^'Reviews for Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? by Of Montreal'. Metacritic. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^McClintock, J. Scott. 'Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? – Of Montreal'. AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^Gordon, Scott (January 23, 2007). 'Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?'. The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^Greenblatt, Leah (January 19, 2007). 'Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?'. Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 13, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^Costa, Maddy (February 9, 2007). 'Of Montreal, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?'. The Guardian. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^Powers, Ann (January 27, 2007). 'Sleepless nights and singalongs'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^Pattison, Louis (February 9, 2007). 'Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?'. NME. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^Mitchum, Rob (January 24, 2007). 'Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?'. Pitchfork. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^'Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?'. Q (248): 115. March 2007.
- ^Hoard, Christian (January 22, 2007). 'Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?'. Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 2, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^Ganz, Caryn (February 2007). 'Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?'. Spin. 23 (2): 85. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^Rob Mitchum, Please Mr. Pharmacist: The New Breed of Drug Song, Pitchfork, March 12, 2007.
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Soundtrack Information
Varese Sarabande (302 066 856 2)
Release Date:June 12, 2001
Conducted by Gavin Greenaway
Performed by
The Hollywood Studio Symphony
Formats: CD, Digital
Music By
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Track Listing
1. | The Meteor | 2. | Cells Divide | 3. | In The Hall By The Pool | 4. | The Army Arrives | 5. | <i>The</i> Ira Kane? | 6. | Fruit Basket For Russell Woodman | 7. | The Water Hazard | 8. | Burgled | 9. | The Forest | 10. | The Cave Waltz | 11. | Blue Fly | 12. | Cutie Pie | 13. | Animal Attack | 14. | Dino Valley | 15. | The Mall Chase | 16. | Monitors Out | 17. | Room For One More | 18. | Fire | 19. | Selenium | 20. | The Fire Truck | 21. | The Amoeba Emerges | 22. | To Go Where No Man Has Gone Before | 23. | Our Heroes | Total Album Time: | 40:02 |
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Review: Evolution
Evolution was supposed to be Ivan Reitman's big 'comeback' film. After the disastrous Six Days Seven Nights and the even more disastrous Father's Day, Reitman really needed a hit. Evolution is best described as Ghostbusters meets Men in Black. When a meteor crashes in Arizona, geologist Dr. Harry Block (Orlando Jones) and ex-military scientist-turned biology professor Dr. Ira Kane (David Duchovney) go investigate. An alien infestation quickly begins to take over the town as alien primordial ooze evolves at an alarmingly fast rate. With lots of humor intermingled with sci-fi action, the music needed to play both ends of the spectrum. Enter composer John Powell, who had recently worked on Shrek.
Powell's score to Evolution has a few major themes. The first is the twangy guitar-heavy theme that, along with playful string work and upbeat percussion, plays off the humor and wackiness prevalent in the first act of the film and is found in such cues as 'In The Hall By The Pool', 'The Army Arrives', and 'Burgled'. When the military shows up and takes over, we encounter a more heroic march, as heard in 'The Ira Kane?', and my favorite cue, 'The Fire Truck'. There is, of course, the love interest - played by Julianne Moore. She gets a more contemporary, softer theme heard in 'Room For One More'.
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'The Forest' is a cue filled with lots of harps and chimes and flirting woodwinds that evoke a sense of fantastical wonder. But it quickly turns into whimsy as the comedy starts playing out. There are a lot of action cues on this album. Powell doesn't hold back, and in a few musical cues that remind me a bit of Chicken Run crossed with Men in Black ('The Mall Chase', 'The Fire Truck'), he lets it rip. 'The Cave Waltz' is a delightful, well, waltz; 'Monitors Out' and 'Fire' are tense and creepy cues.
Powell's score was an AFM union recording, and it's noteworthy that as part of a new arrangement, it's a bit cheaper to release more of the score. One of the stipulations was that all of the members of the orchestra be listed in the liner notes. Finally we can see who these people are that have been delivering these wonderful performances! (And we even get more than 30-minutes of score to boot!) While parts of it sound a bit familiar stylistically to other scores we have heard in the past, Powell's score to Evolution has been playing consistently in my CD player - and that's certainly a testament to its enjoyment!
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