And while it seemed gauche to many at the time, it occurred in an era when indie bands, struggling with diminishing album sales and the proliferation of illegal file sharing, relied upon licensing to stay afloat. Music Reviews: The Sunlandic Twins by of Montreal released in 2005 via Polyvinyl. Oslo in the Summertime is a cool robotic stroll amid the many Brian Wilson throwbacks, but most of The Sunlandic Twins (which includes a. It’s impossible to mention this album without bringing up the licensing of “Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games),” in which the tune was re-written as a de facto Outback Steakhouse theme song. The Sunlandic Twins is the seventh album by indie pop band Of Montreal. Failure, to some degree is inevitable, a subject Barnes would explore in much more detail on the album’s follow-up. Sunlandic Twins inched of Montreal even closer to their magnum opus Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Opening track “Requiem for O.M.M.2″ plays the torturous memory games so ubiquitous on Destroyer, while “So Begins Our Alabee” is an excruciating ode to Kevin and Nina Barnes’ young daughter Alabee, all raw nerve contrition and blithe optimism, as Barnes intones with stark vulnerability, “You’re my only softness/ You’re my only pleasure/ And I never want to be your funny little abject failure.” He sounds as though he feels as if he’s doomed to be “her little abject failure,” but that doesn’t top him from crafting a tune rife with grief, joy, and guarded optimism.
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