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Stream Of Montreal’s Psychotropic Sweet-Talker ‘Belle Glade Missionaries’

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Of Montreal have already set free two tunes from their upcoming 12th album, and now the Georgian psych-peddlers have unleashed a third. Following “She Ain’t Speaking Now” and “Fugitive Air,” the freshly liberated “Belle Glade Missionaries” brings with it six minutes of spiraling guitar, swooning harmonies, and loopy wordplay. Band ringleader Kevin Barnes sings about children getting blown up in schools and a character who posts naked GIFs of epileptic fits, all before reminding us that “there’s a value in things unpleasant.”

“Belle Glade Missionaries” appears on Of Montreal’s lousy with sylvianbriar, the forthcoming follow-up to 2012’s Paralytic Stalks. The new full-length (one of SPIN’s 50 Fall Albums You Gotta Hear) arrives on October 8 via Polyvinyl in CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats. Until then, scroll down to stream the Elephant 6 alums’ latest track and hear Barnes unspool rich, delirious tongue-twisters such as: “From your first psychotic episode, to your drug-induced schizophrenia, it’s your dysphoric mania that makes you so likable.”

Of Montreal’s North American tour dates at the bottom.

Of Montreal tour dates:

September 25 – London, U.K. @ Electrowerkz
October 18 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
October 22 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
October 23 – Washington, D.C. @ U Street Music Hall
October 24 – Washington, D.C. @ U Street Music Hall
October 25 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
October 26 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East
October 27 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
October 28 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
October 29 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland *
October 30 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
October 31 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre *
November 1 – Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center *
November 2 – Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room *
November 3 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater *
November 4 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge *
November 5 – Boise, ID @ Korah Shrine *
November 6 – Seattle, WA @ Neomos *
November 7 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom *
November 8 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall *
November 9 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall *
November 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex *
November 11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Largo at The Coronet *
November 12 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress *
November 14 – Dallas, TX @ Trees *
November 15 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk *
November 16 – New Orleans, LA @ Howlin’ Wolf *
November 17 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West *

* = with La Luz