To bring to life the wet nightmare that is Skeletal Lamping‘s funky first single, of Montreal left the costumes and live animals onstage and instead turned to animation group SSSR. Directors Marc Reisbig and Hanne Berkaak imagine a drawing board come to life with colorful creatures, aliens, and personified household objects. While we miss Georgie Fruit, Pineapplehead is a fair substitute. It’s like Picture Pages for polysexual potheads.

Grab the free mp3 here.

Skeletal Lamping is out on Polyvinyl 10/21. We’re giving away a giant batch of limited-edition oM swag in this week’s ‘Gum Drop.

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Comments (9)
  1. they’ve still got it. the thing dancing at the beginning made me laugh soo hard

  2. great art here. very entertaining video.

  3. hlebtastic  |   Posted on Oct 14th, 2008

    “When the hope of another wet nightmare is all we have to live for”

    love that lyric.

  4. Andrew  |   Posted on Oct 14th, 2008

    Great video for a great album!

  5. Bitchin’

  6. Paul Ramon  |   Posted on Oct 14th, 2008

    It’s tough when you build your business on musicians. They go south, you got no choice but to be “respectable” about them. Same old story. Put Rolling Stone on the masthead already.

  7. 2 thumbs up! lovely vid and really great song.

  8. whistle  |   Posted on Oct 15th, 2008

    Jebus, there is more content on this blog now devoted to of Montreal than on ofmontreal.net.

  9. kurt  |   Posted on Oct 18th, 2008

    i cant stop watching the furry-bodied skull-head guy with boots busting a move. fucking fantastic

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