Of Montreal stream new track 'Empyrean Abattoir'

Following on from the announcement about the forthcoming new of Montreal album, the band have unveiled a new track in form of 'Empyrean Abattoir'.

'Aureate Gloom' is due 2nd March in the UK and Europe, 3rd March 2015 in North America via Polyvinyl Records.

"A golden despondency" is how Kevin Barnes translates the meaning behind 'Aureate Gloom', the title he gave of Montreal's thirteenth full-length album.

The oxymoron is one Barnes says best describes the overall state of his life and mental outlook while working on the record: first on a writing retreat in New York City, then while demoing tracks in Athens, before finally recording at Sonic Ranch, just across the border from Juarez, Mexico in the Texan desert.

If you're wondering what exactly would lead Barnes to use this epithet to describe his reality at the time, look no further than the songs themselves.

While many bands rely on vague platitudes as an attempt to make their songs universally applicable, Barnes chooses to take the opposite tact - penning lyrics so personal they sound like entries ripped from a journal that should be permanently kept under lock and key.

"I was going through a very stormy period in my life and felt like I was just completely trashed," reveals Barnes. "I might be guilty of sharing or exposing too much of my private life, but to me the best albums are those that help people connect with an artist on a deep, human level and that do so without too much artifice or evasiveness."

of Montreal 'Aureate Gloom' (Polyvinyl Records) 2nd March 2015

Tracklisting:

1. Bassem Sabry
2. Last Rites At The Jane Hotel
3. Empyrean Abbatoir
4. Aluminum Crown
5. Virgillian Lots
6. Monolithic Egress
7. Apollyon Of Blue Room
8. Estocadas
9. Chthonian Dirge For Uruk The Other
10. Like Ashoka's Inferno of Memory