2 LP Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? is of Montreals landmark 2007 album. The album defined of Montreals career and continues to be hailed as a classic. Pitchfork called the album “Ceaselessly fascinating and inexhaustibly replayable,” honoring it with “Best New Music” and placing it in the Top 5 albums of 2007. With Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, of Montreal has created its masterpiece. It is an irresistible and remarkable album, sounding like a logical extension of the erratic indie-disco sounds of The Sunlandic Twins. However, Hissing Fauna is also the most personal of Montreal album to date, with Kevin Barnes, lead of Montreal songwriter, pouring tremendous amounts of emotion, heartbreak, frustration and elation into its twelve tracks. Written and recorded primarily during what they call “an insane year,” Hissing Fauna sees Barnes adopt a new writing style. Its an unabashedly autobiographical attempt from a songwriter whose early material tended towards characters and story-songs. Barnes continues down the whimsical pop-funk path, while changing up its lyrical scope; and Hissing Fauna balances its poppy nature while showcasing brutal and unflinching honesty. TRACKLISTING 1. Suffer For Fashion 2. Sink The Seine 3. Cato As A Pun 4. Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse 5. Gronlandic Edit 6. A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger 7. The Past Is A Grotesque Animal 8. Bunny Aint No Kind Of Rider 9. Faberge Falls For Shuggie 10. Labyrinthian Pomp 11. Shes A Rejecter 12. We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafling 13. Du Og Meg 14. Voltaic Crusher/Undrum To Muted Da 15. Derailments in a Place of Our Own 16. Miss Blonde, Your Papa is Failing 17. No Conclusion
