New EP of Montreal coming to stores near you

The Kevin Barnes vehicle of Montreal is close to releasing a new EP. It will be called thecontrollersphere and it will be released on the 26th of April. Barnes himself has called it the band’s folk record. The album comes off the back of last year’s False Priest album. Naturally, of Montreal isn’t satisfied with merely releasing a standard EP, so on the same date an art book will appear with drawings and painting of David Barnes. With it you’ll get a code that will allow you to listen to an audio commentary.

One of the songs is called ‘Black Lion Massacre’, and the song’s title is taken from one of the more elusive chapters in the Animal Kingdom (and other assorted tales) wherein the black lions battled the lions that we are now so familiar with. They were named the golden lions, for when the sun shone on their fur they truly looked as if they had the mandate of heaven to rule the animal kingdom, and there had to be a distinction in name with their black counterparts.

For years the battle could not be decided, until a coup happened by the Golden Lions. Six of them, posing as a giant wooden resemblance of the French Ambassador, sneaked into the opposing camp (they posed as an automatically moving device. It has been assumed by a great many scholars that Ford took his cue from this). The Golden Lions feigned to retreat, and just when the Black Lions were all asleep after celebrating, the Golden Lions broke formation as the French Ambassador, opened the gates of the Black Lions camp, and let their returning friends in for what now is known affectionately as the Black Lion Massacre.