This, Of Montreal's fourth album, was released in 2001 and quickly went out of print due to its extravagant and expensive packaging. Polyvinyl is now bringing it back in all its glory, with all 22 tracks and the entire booklet of original paintings. It's the band's most ambitious album with songs of wonderful madness featuring strange musical interludes, a detective story, gentle love songs, avant pop songs and ending with an 18-minute piano opus.
Track Listing
1. Good Morning Mr. Edminton
2. Peacock Parasols
3. Look at the Bell (Andy instructs the Turkish Moths to acquire him more bells or else…)
4. An Introduction for Isabell
5. Let’s Do Everything for the First Time Forever
6. Coquelicot’s Tea Party
7. Rose Robert
8. It’s a Very Starry Night
9. Mimi Merlot
10. Butterscotching Mr. Lynn
11. Coquelicot, Claude and Lecithin Dance Aboard the Ocean Liner
12. Go Call You Mine
13. The Events Leading Up to the Collapse of Detective Dulllight
14. Penelope
15. A Dreamy Day of Daydreaming of You
16. Hello From Inside A Shell (Zombies enter the harbor)
17. Lecithin’s Tale of a DNA Experiment That Went Horribly Awry
18. It’s Just So
19. The Frozen Island
20. Upon Settling on the Frozen Island, Lecithin Presents Claude and Coquelicot with His Animal Creations For Them To Approve or Reject (The rejected inventions walk towards the reverse magnetitizer)
21. Let’s Go For a Walk (Coquelicot leaves the frozen island to resume her work as an efeblum with Claude and Lecithin in tow)
22. The Hopeless Opus or The Battle of the Unfriendly Ridiculous