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9.0
16309
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Spin
Easily Barnes' most accessible
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8.0
16454
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Drowned In Sound
An inventive, richly melodic and generally superb-sounding record
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8.0
16965
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State
There’s 13 tracks on the album and from track 10 the disco ball is put away, the dry ice machine is switched off and out come the big hitters
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8.0
17793
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Blurt
This potent mix of effervescent pop and melancholy self-exposure has done more than any flame demon or horn porcine to vault Of Montreal so far past its peers
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7.0
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Rave Magazine
An audacious, at-times brilliant, if somewhat frustrating step in the right direction
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7.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
They jumble the disparate sounds together into a whole that ought not to work quite as well as it, simply, does
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7.0
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NME
Though it’s Janelle Monae who’s made the record closest to Kevin Barnes’ heart in 2010, MGMT would kill to cut discs as eccentric and nakedly expressive as this
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7.0
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Beats Per Minute
False Priest lets the listener be a victim in Barnes’s dizzying and chaotic world
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7.0
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Prefix
It marks a smart new direction for Kevin Barnes and Of Montreal
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7.0
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Under The Radar
Having finally met his matches, Barnes is forced to stretch, finally bringing something unexpected to the party
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7.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
There are more slippery grooves that remember what "groove" meant in the 70s
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7.0
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Click Music
Unfortunately, Barnes wrote 10 winners and then finishes the album with three throwaways. Not bad songs by any means but forgettable at best
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6.0
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The Independent
False Priest collapses like previous Of Montreal albums under the weight of excessive ideas
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6.0
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Bowlegs
With so many ideas holding their hands up, the songs themselves can be diluted, lost within the overt instrumentation
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6.0
16346
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The Fly
Some kind of genius or total crud? We’re not sure either...
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6.0
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The Skinny
While it's a 'safe' album versus the wild sexcapades and depression of LPs past, there's enough here to engage fans from all quarters
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6.0
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musicOMH
Enough interesting material here to suggest that the next attempt will be worth hearing
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6.0
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The Guardian
False Priest's funk leanings are reinforced by special guests such as Janelle Monáe
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5.0
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PopMatters
An album filled with great ideas, but often too excited to make them fully coherent and palatable
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5.0
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BBC
Here, they come off sounding like a poor man's Scissor Sisters
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4.0
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Eye Weekly
After 10 albums, of which False Priest is arguably the wackiest, it ought to be clear to most indie fans that Kevin Barnes and co.’s cup of acid-spiked punch isn’t for everyone
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