Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

Reviews of Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

Rating Summary
8.7 by Pitchfork Media The breakup album is a familiar pop music trope-- countless artists have harnessed the emotional fallout of a relationship to fuel their songwriting efforts. The less imaginative practitioners wind up... Read more
n/a by 75 or less You almost feel bad for enjoying it when you notice this hook-filled infectious indie-disco that's been charging your senses—those first six sublime tracks—is the pretense of a man barely ... Read more
3 by Rolling Stone For a decade, Of Montreal have been one of the most prolific bands on the Athens, Georgia, indie scene. Their eighth LP is a wonky thing that ranges from Kinks-y rock to New Wave to disco, with dashes... Read more
n/a by Popmatters This is a cohesive, serious album. It is distressing, depressed, isolated, alienating, and probably the best Of Montreal album to date. Read more
n/a by BBC Much of Hissing Fauna… dances in the face of its depressing subject matter. Read more
n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com What makes these songs so positively delicious, in the same way that going on a bender can be a welcome alternative to crying into a pillow, is that Barnes realizes how seductive misery can be. Read more
n/a by www.lostatsea.net If Of Montreal were previously a bit on the superficial side with their beatific pop, Hissing Fauna adds a welcome additional ingredient: a sense of gravity. Read more
n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com Hissing Fauna is severely front-loaded, not necessarily because the closing songs are duds, but more because the album’s first half is nearly flawless. Read more
n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com Hissing Fauna might be Barnes’ finest work yet, an opus built entirely of sugar. Read more
n/a by www.filter-mag.com If last year's sublime Sunlandic Twins was Kevin Barnes' ode to "Oslo in the Summertime," Hissing Fauna recalls his Winter of Discontent. Read more
n/a by www.adequacy.net The album sounds amazing. Read more
n/a by www.playlouder.com The effect of the new bleak mood lurking beneath the glimmering pop is to pare away the occasional over-cutesiness that has marred Of Montreal's work in the past and enhance the freaky psychedelic sublime of Barne's best moments. Read more
n/a by www.noripcord.com The lack of engaging realism has always been one of the major problems for Of Montreal and the new material goes a long way towards solving it. Read more
n/a by www.pastemagazine.com Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? is probably the most fun one can reasonably have while wrestling with somebody else’s demons. Read more
n/a by www.drownedinsound.com If there is one thing in this world that can elevate even the weakest of lyrics from the trough of personal diary hell, it’s a catchy melody. Thankfully this record overflows with them. Read more
n/a by www.prefixmag.com Barnes's most personal and emotional album to date. Read more
n/a by www.avclub.com It's all darkly beautiful, because Barnes continues to emote more through the music than through his words. Read more
n/a by thephoenix.com For the most part an exercise in Prince-like electro-funk, full of squelchy keyboard fuzz and chicken-scratch guitar noise and absurdly complicated falsetto harmonies. Read more
n/a by www.slantmagazine.com An album of relatively accessible pop music that pulses with the pain of a life in pieces. Read more
n/a by www.ctnow.com It's by far his most personal album, but "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?" keeps the self-absorption to a minimum, in favor of vivid descriptions and up-tempo music that's catchy and engaging regardless of whether you're invested in the difficult back story. Read more
n/a by www.villagevoice.com Fauna's first half is cosmic pop turmoil of the highest degree, as only a master songwriter could create. Read more
n/a by www.nytimes.com Manic pop and depressive revelations have rarely been so closely bonded. [22 Jan 2007] Read more
n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com Although non-fans will likely continue to dismiss the band as over-the-top pop marauders, Hissing Fauna proves that there’s plenty of depth to their delirium. Read more
n/a by NME This Athens, Georgia collective have blossomed from winsome indie-pop virgins to frocked-up future pop stars, beaming their febrile college rock through a kaleidoscope of sleazy funk, electronica jitters, and 'Fear Of Music'-style Talking Heads ethno-beat. Read more
n/a by arts.guardian.co.uk The second half is dominated by a seedy funk that feels at once self-indulgent and unappetising, despite the odd dazzling moment. Read more
8 by Aftonbladet Det var ingen överraskning att The Shins “Wincing the Night Away” skulle vara ursmart och välljudande. Inte heller att Clap Your Hands Say Yeahs “Some Loud Thunder” skulle ha e... Read more
8 by Dagensskiva.com Det var ingen överraskning att The Shins “Wincing the Night Away” skulle vara ursmart och välljudande. Inte heller att Clap Your Hands Say Yeahs “Some Loud Thunder” skulle ha e... Read more