of Montreal stream new single "Bassem Sabry", and announce new album Aureate Gloom

10 December 2014, 14:05 | Written by Ben Curtis

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of Montreal have unveiled plans for a new album, and streamed first single "Bassem Sabry". The album, titled Aureate Gloom, is due for release on 2 March 2015 through Polyvinyl Records.

The single is named in memory of the Egyptian journalist who died earlier this year.

The album, described as unflinching and confessional by frontman Kevin Barnes, is also set to be their most emotional work to date. Barnes said:

"I was going through a very stormy period in my life and felt like I was just completely trashed. I might be guilty of sharing or exposing too much of my private life, but to me the best albums are those that help people connect with an artist on a deep, human level and that do so without too much artifice or evasiveness."

The track itself is on the funkier side of of Montreal's repertoire; with more than a touch of the David Bowie's about it.

Listen to "Bassem Sabry" below.

Tracklist:

1. Bassem Sabry
2. Last Rites At The Jane Hotel
3. Empyrean Abbatoir
4. Aluminum Crown
5. Virgillian Lots
6. Monolithic Egress
7. Apollyon Of Blue Room
8. Estocadas
9. Chthonian Dirge For Uruk The Other
10. Like Ashoka's Inferno of Memory