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1[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/of_montreal.jpg]] of Montreal is a genre-bending indie group from Athens, Georgia.[[note]]Which while technically in the DeepSouth couldn't be farther from it in reality. It's a college town.[[/note]]
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3Formed in 1996 by Kevin Barnes as a [[IAmTheBand solo project]], it began as folksy [[BaroquePop baroque pop]] like most other Elephant 6 projects. Derek Almstead and Bryan Poole (who frequently performs under the stage name The Late B.P. Helium) soon joined; the groups' first three albums featured this lineup, and the style continued until their fifth album, ''Aldhils Arboretum''. Not only was it their first full-length record to not be a concept album, but it also introduced the dance-friendly style that set them apart from their Elephant 6 peers. This funkier sound kept on evolving on each record, and the group caught the eye of music critics with ''Sunlandic Twins'', with one song from the album even being altered and used in a commercial for Outback Steakhouse.
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5Their next album marked an even more drastic change from their folk-styled roots. ''Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?'' was created almost entirely by Kevin Barnes to cope with psychological issues he was experiencing at the time, and featured enough LyricalDissonance to make [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion "Komm Susser Todd"]] sound like [[Music/TheBeatles "Hey Jude"]]. It also gave birth to Barnes' {{alter ego|Acting}}, a CampGay black {{Transvestite}} GlamRock star named [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Georgie Fruit]]. The next two albums, ''Skeletal Lamping'' and ''False Priest'', both were predominantly written from the viewpoint and continued the bass-heavy pop sound of the previous album.
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7!!Releases:
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9Albums:
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11* ''Cherry Peel'' (1997)
12* ''The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy'' (1998)
13* ''The Gay Parade'' (1999)
14* ''Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse'' (2001)
15* ''Aldhils Arboretum'' (2002)
16* ''Satanic Panic in the Attic'' (2004)
17* ''The Sunlandic Twins'' (2005)
18* ''Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?'' (2007)
19* ''Skeletal Lamping'' (2008)
20* ''False Priest'' (2010)
21* ''Paralytic Stalks'' (2012)
22* ''Lousy with Sylvianbriar'' (2013)
23* ''Auriate Gloom'' (2015)
24* ''Snare Lustrious Doomings'' (2015) [[note]]Double live album.[[/note]]
25* ''Innocense Reaches'' (2016)
26* ''White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood'' (2018)
27* ''UR FUN'' (2020)
28* ''I Feel Safe with You, Trash'' (2021)
29* ''Freewave Lucifer f<ck f^ck f>ck'' (2022)
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31[=EPs=]:
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33* ''The Bird Who Ate the Rabbit's Flower'' (1997)
34* ''The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower'' (1997) [[note]]UpdatedReRelease of ''The Bird...'' with three extra songs.[[/note]]
35* ''Covers EP'' [[note]]Included with the first pressing of ''Satanic Panic in the Attic''.[[/note]]
36* ''Icons, Abstract Thee'' (2007)
37* ''Jon Brion Remix EP'' (2009)
38* ''thecontrollersphere'' (2011)
39* ''Rune Husk'' (2017)
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41Compilations/Odds & Ends:
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43* ''Horse & Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed): The Singles and Songles Album'' (2000)
44* ''An Introduction to of Montreal'' (2000) [[note]]A vinyl exclusive best-of compilation.[[/note]]
45* ''The Early Four Track Recordings'' (2001)
46* ''If He Is Protecting Our Nation Then Who Will Protect Big Oil, Our Children?'' (2002)
47* ''The Gladiator Nightstick Collection'' (2004) [[note]]Another vinyl exclusive best-of compilation.[[/note]]
48* ''Satanic Twins'' (2006) [[note]]Remixes of songs from ''Satanic Panic in the Attic'' and ''The Sunlandic Twins''.[[/note]]
49* ''Daughter of Clouds'' (2012)
50* ''Young Froth/Taypiss'' (2013) [[note]]Very early songs by the band, released as a stretch goal for the Kickstarter for the documentary ''The Past Is a Grotesque Animal''.[[/note]]
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52!!The band exemplifies the following tropes:
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54* CampGay: Kevin Barnes' alter ego Georgie Fruit.
55* CampStraight: Despite his flamboyant dress style at live shows, Barnes is straight and was HappilyMarried to Nina Aimee Gr&oslash;ttland until 2013.
56** Barnes even remarked in interviews that he wished to be gay out of fascination with LGBT culture, but someday realized that he just wasn't gay at all.
57** He eventually came out as genderfluid, while not being gay, still being LGBT.
58* CarefulWithThatAxe: Shows up in "Faberge Falls for Shuggie".
59* ChekhovsGun: The trope is mentioned in the first verse of "Plastis Wafer".
60--->Lover face, I view you as the revolver\
61introduced in my play, act one
62* ConceptAlbum: Their first four albums, as well as ''Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?''
63* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?''. Taken up to eleven with its' sequel album ''Paralytic Stalks''.
64* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Most of their album covers, drawn by Kevin Barnes' brother David. They make Lisa Frank's art look dull in comparison.
65* EasySexChange: Barnes claims that his on-stage character Georgie Fruit has had many sex change surgeries in his time.
66* EpicRocking: "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" from ''Hissing Fauna'' is 12 minutes long, and "No Conclusion" from the companion EP ''Icons, Abstract Thee'' comes close to the 10-minute mark.
67* GrotesqueCute: The music video for "Wraith Pinned to the Mist (and Other Games)".
68* HotterAndSexier: The Georgie Fruit trilogy marked the point where the band started delving into sexually-explicit imagery.
69* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Demo collection ''The Early Four-Track Recordings'' - the track names are all long titles that, when read in order, present a story about Creator/DustinHoffman having surreal misadventures while trying to take a bath. None of this has anything to do with the album's content, and the songs originally didn't have any proper titles.
70* IntercourseWithYou: ''Hissing Fauna'' showed signs of this, before Barnes went all-out on ''Skeletal Lamping'' and ''False Priest''.
71* LyricalDissonance: ''Hissing Fauna'' features quite upbeat pop songs set to lyrics centered on depression and suicide.
72* NewSoundAlbum: Two, in fact: ''Satanic Panic in the Attic'' introduced their funkier and poppier sound, and ''Hissing Fauna'' introduced their trademark LyricalDissonance (paired with a much more theatrical stage show).
73** ''Paralytic Stalks'' is their most experimental album to date.
74** ...and then ''Lousy with Sylvianbriar'' marked ANOTHER change, this time to a live-in-the-studio sound recalling the earliest albums.
75* ProductionForeshadowing: The ''Hissing Fauna'' track "Faberge Falls for Shuggie" ends with the chant "Skeletal lamping, the controller sphere, false priest", which turned out to be the titles of the next three releases.
76* RefugeInAudacity: At least one show in the 2010 tour featured [[spoiler: Kevin Barnes grinding with a woman in a pig suit and faking an orgasm while a man in a similar pig suit looks on in shock and horror, at which point Barnes declares he needs "sexual healing", tackles him, and then air-humps and teabags him.]]
77* RepurposedPopSong: See BreakawayPopHit.
78* RevisitingTheRoots: ''Lousy with Sylvianbriar'' is generally viewed as this, as it marked a return to Kevin Barnes recording with a full band in the studio.
79** ''Aldhils Arboretum'' could be seen as this as well: a collecting of stand-alone indie rock tracks after several concept albums of... inexact genre.
80* SanitySlippageSong: "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal"
81* SesameStreetCred: The group has appeared on ''Series/YoGabbaGabba''.
82* TakeThatCritics: "There Is Nothing Wrong with Hating Rock Critics", obviously.
83* TitleDrop: "Labyrinthian Pomp" features the line "Let's just say / You are not the destroyer".
84** The immediately preceding song names their next three major releases, albeit out of order: "Skeletal Lamping / The Controller Sphere / False Priest".
85* {{Tsundere}}: The subject of "Our Riotous Defects".
86* UnusualEuphemism: "Now that the parachute has opened, well / Don't it make you feel good?"
87* WouldntHitAGirl: Discussed in "She's a Rejecter". The speaker wants to pay another woman to hit the one who rejected him, but he knows he can't even do that.

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