This album is one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. Quite possibly the best Of Montreal album yet; they just keep getting better and better. (I seem to be the only person in the world that prefers Skeletal Lamping to Hissing Fauna.) Not that earlier albums like Satanic Panic and Coquelicot aren’t great as well, but in terms of having a consistent set of amazingly well-written songs and imaginative production (helped out by Jon Brion’s pop sheen,) this album is the hands down winner. There is not a single wasted moment on the album. (Well, maybe a millisecond or two here and there.)

Ew, um, I would like to distance myself from the unfortunately misogynist turn this thread has taken. “On behalf of…”‘s comments are totally not appropriate, so I’m sorry about that Holly.

That said, saying “I went to college for this so I think I know more than you” is a surefire way to piss off people on the internet. I majored in film, but I’ve learned that some people are going to enjoy Night at the Museum, no matter how much Kierkegaard I quote at them. Sometimes things have benefit beyond the intellectual, so try not to be so condescending towards popular taste.