of Montreal shares video for new song 'Rude Girl on Rotation'

of Montreal shares video for new song 'Rude Girl on Rotation'

Lady on the Cusp Out May 17th via Polyvinyl

April 16, 2024

By Mark Redfern

Photo by Shervin Lainez

Of Montreal, Kevin Barnes' project releases new album, Lady on the Cusp, out May 17 via Polyvinyl. Now he's shared his second single, “Rude Girl on Rotation,” via a music video. Check it out below.

Barnes said of the new single in a press release: “'Rude Girl on Rotation' was inspired, in part, by my upcoming move from Athens GA to our new home in Vermont. I used an open tuning on the guitar that Nick Drake used a lot on his jammers. The bass line blends in with a late 60's West Coast rocker influenced by Canned Heat's “Poor Moon”. I wanted the song to sound loose and underproduced. It took the least amount of time to record of all the songs on the album. I hope you like it!”

The Montreal native previously shared the album's first single, “Yung Hearts Bleed Free,” via a music video.

Lady on the Cusp is the sequel to 2022 Freewave Lucifer fck and 2020 UR FUN. A press release says Barnes “will respond to any pronoun you suggest,” including they, she and them. A fixture of the Athens, Georgia music scene since 1996, Barnes and his partner, musician Christina Schneider (aka Locate S, 1), recently left the South for the more progressive state of Vermont. The move informed the new album, written and recorded as they prepared to relocate, with Barnes reflecting on his nearly three decades of music in Athens.

Read our 2016 The End interview about the end and death with Montreal's Kevin Barnes.

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