For nearly three decades, Kevin Barnes (he/she/they) has graced countless stages, tv screens, dancefloors and stereos while making a political impact in their local community and beyond. Today, they announce their new of Montreal album, Lady On The Cusp (out May 17) alongside its funky art-rock lead single/music video, “Yung Hearts Bleed Free” (directed by Madeline Babuka Black). The Bootsy Collins-influenced, self-deprecating ode to Kevin’s heroes—“sex maniacs” and “drug-addled creeps”— simultaneously indulges in freedom and fetish while candidly exploring the doubts and shortcomings of any life lived fully.

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"Influenced by the Leos Carax film "Boy Meets Girl", Bootsy's Rubber Band, and my recent purchase of a Yamaha TG33 and a Kawai K1M. I wanted to make a strutting, sexy little vamp of a song that just kind of chugged along and felt relaxed and playful and free.” - Kevin Barnes (of Montreal)

"There's a certain 60's/ experimental spirit to Barnes' songwriting that I love and by using analog techniques of paper cut out and direct on film animation I pay homage to that. The paper cut out animations and color palette of the film were deeply inspired by Larry Jordan's experimental animations, most notably his 1968 film 'Our Lady of the Sphere.'"  - Madeline Babuka Black (director)

Arriving in the erstwhile college-rock hub of Athens around 1996, Kevin, who will answer to any pronoun you proffer, bent gender and genre through complicated and ever-delightful records, trouble and woe fueling kinetic tunes of radical incandescence. Despite believing they would never leave Georgia, Lady On The Cusp was written and recorded in the months when they and their partner, fellow-musician Christina Schneider (Locate S,1), prepared to move away. Combining a keen reckoning with the past with hopeful glimpses of the future, all clad in purposefully scattershot pop kaleidoscopes, the new 10 song suite—funny and sad, sexy and brooding, playful and serious—finds Kevin forging new paths ahead.

of Montreal - 'Lady On The Cusp' Album Art

Lady On The Cusp Tracklist

1. Music Hurts the Head
2. 2 Depressed 2 Fuck
3. Rude Girl on Rotation
4. Yung Hearts Bleed Free
5. Soporific Cell
6. I Can Read Smoke
7. PI$$ PI$$
8. Sea Mines That Mr Gone
9. Poetry Surf
10. Genius in the Wind