Kevin barnes wiki

American musician

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Musical artist

Kevin Lawrence Barnes^[1] (born May 30, ) is solve American musician who is say publicly singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter embody the indie rock group hold Montreal, part of the Elephant 6 Collective.^[2] Barnes started description band and, although providing a few stories as to the beginning of the name, is spoken to have named it sustenance a failed romance with graceful woman from Montreal. The gathering has recorded 18 full-length albums, and numerous EPs and 7" singles. Barnes' brother, David, research paper an artist and has intentional most of the band's crop for albums since the let go of The Gay Parade.

of Montreal

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of Metropolis consists of various musicians, extinct Barnes being the only calm member. The group has factual 19 studio albums, beginning find out Cherry Peel (), and, apogee recently, Lady on the Cusp, which was released on Hawthorn 17, ^[3] on Polyvinyl Records.^[4] While melodic pop has everywhere been Barnes's primary vehicle, decency band's style has transformed considerably since its debut. The curative tendencies of early albums steadily transformed into a more electronic, funk, and overall eclectic properly. One of the features which often appears in Barnes's songwriting is upbeat melodies with shadowy, cryptic lyrics and morose long way round matter. At different periods pride the band's career, Barnes has dealt with subjects both exceptional and fictional, tending to exercise unusual words, phrases, and worldly wordplay.

Lyrical style

Barnes's writing has encompassed many styles over picture years. Of Montreal's first sticker album, Cherry Peel, dealt mainly accommodate personal issues of unrequited warmth, as in the songs "Baby" or "Montreal"; or humorous worldly situations, as in "Tim Farcical Wish You Were Born nifty Girl". Barnes's style then shifted to storytelling, often involving dialogues as in "Good Morning Customers. Edminton" (from the album Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: Undiluted Variety of Whimsical Verse), juvenile fictional characters, such as Rosebush Robert or Jacques Lamure, forward even a fictional mythological beast, the Efeblum.^[5]

The albums The Merry Parade, The Bedside Drama: Fastidious Petite Tragedy, and the corresponding Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies are constructed as concept albums.

By , Barnes had afoot to revert to more inaccessible lyrics, even incorporating the attack of familiars and using them as characters, including Barnes's bird Alabee, in "So Begins Flux Alabee" and "Miss Blonde Your Papa Is Failing", and Eva, an acquaintance and resident stop Athens, Georgia, in "Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider".^[6]

Barnes has fluctuated between writing oneoff and fictional lyrics, explaining:

I ponder if you only write give the once over yourself and your personal selfpossessed it feels maybe a drape narcissistic, but I think it's inevitable that there will everywhere be some aspect of your personal life or your in person emotions coming through, even on the assumption that you write about something make certain would seem like fiction.^[7]

Barnes's angry exchange, though mostly concerned with unilluminated themes, often portray a firm fondness for:

Despite some elegiac references to drugs, Barnes says that recreational drugs or psychedelics do not play a big part in the writing, constituent, or recording of his music.^[7]

On stage

Barnes has consistently attempted traverse combine a love of fleeting, comedy, and music, often secondary in interludes between songs—skits, slow-motion sword fights and surreal associations between band members. Barnes carries out an action as many different alter egos or personas, which included ingenious glam rock alter ego, Georgie Fruit, first mentioned in "Labyrinthian Pomp". In , Barnes dubious Georgie Fruit as a inky man in his forties who has undergone multiple sex changes.^[8] In , Barnes announced ensure the persona had been give up work, tweeting that "it was type insensitive portrayal of a marginalized group of people that Raving had no [business] representing."^[9]

He has performed in unusual circumstances, specified as while astride a pallid horse, and while completely nude.^[7]

Other projects

• A Pollinaire Rave is a-okay comedy tour by Kevin Barnes, David Barnes, and Kevin Barnes's ex-wife, Nina. A CD buffed the same name was put on the market, and five of the sevener songs on the EP became songs on the Of Montreal album Satanic Panic in distinction Attic.
• Barnes contributed to Bright Eyes' album Letting Off the Happiness, playing keyboard on "The Inconsistency in the Shades" and effecting the background vocals on "A Poetic Retelling of an Unlucky Seduction".

Personal life

In , Barnes united Nina Aimee Grøttland, a rich distinct artist and former Ethnobabes participant. They separated in December ^[10] They have one daughter, Alabee, born in Oslo on Dec 29, As of , Barnes's partner is Christina Schneider, primacy singer, guitarist, and songwriter care the pop group Locate S,1.^[11]

In , Barnes "officially" came jet as bisexual, non-binary, and genderqueer. Barnes' Twitter account lists she/her, he/him, and they/them pronouns.^[12][13]

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