{"id":577924,"date":"2026-04-02T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:53:08","slug":"of-montreal-cant-hide-behind-their-false-bravado-on-when-%e2%94%82-exclaim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577924\/","title":{"rendered":"of Montreal Can’t Hide Behind Their False Bravado on “When” \u2502 Exclaim!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost two years after the release of their 19th studio album Lady of the Cusp<\/a>, of Montreal<\/a> have returned to announce their latest record aethermead (arriving June 5 via Polyvinyl<\/a>), which Kevin Barnes and co. have previewed today with the new single “When.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The track is a galvanizing, hypnosis-inducing trip as Barnes airs out their frustrations through false sexual bravado. “‘When’ is more a song about yearning, sadness, confusion, frustration\u2026.. than it is a song about having sex,” they explained in a release. “Clearly all of the things listed in the verses are the things I actually desire.”<\/p>\n

The things in question: wanting to be friends with their subject’s friends, desiring emotional connection and also not wanting to compete with “that nepo-baby” \u2014 of Montreal are so back, y’all.<\/p>\n

“When” is as funny as it is sincere (a skill that the band have balanced so well in their decades-long career), evidenced by Barnes’s conclusion of the track: “It’s much easier to say ‘When can I fuck you again?’ than it is to say ‘When will you be loving, affectionate, and emotionally generous and make me feel whole again?'”<\/p>\n

Check out the visualizer for “When” below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

aethermead:<\/p>\n

Already DreamingWanting on AirListen to Music and CryMy Zhe ZheTake the FormWhenHack it UpLacan in the FamilyHaving a MomentFrom the Front of YouTo Nothing’s RewardNow We Cringe at the ThoughtDismissal Mosaics<\/p>\n

Pre-order aethermead<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost two years after the release of their 19th studio album Lady of the Cusp, of Montreal have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-577924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}