| The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy | ||||
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| Released | 1998 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop | |||
| Length | 39:29 | |||
| Label | Kindercore [1] | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.0/10 [3] |
The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy is the second album by the band of Montreal. [4] [5] It was released on Kindercore Records in 1998.
The Bedside Drama was recorded in tandem with The Gay Parade , intended to be one triple album. Kevin quickly realized that the two groups of songs formed their own unique identities and separated them into their own records. The album was done on the same eight track reel-to-reel TASCAM recorder as Cherry Peel. Influences include The Beach Boys' Smile , The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society , The Who Sell Out , Frank Zappa, psychedelic era Beatles, and Os Mutantes. It is a concept album detailing the rise and fall of a romance and becoming suicidal as a result, inspired by Kevin's failed relationship with the band's namesake, Julie, their pen pal from Montreal. Though the album's narrative parallels to Kevin's life are obvious, much of it is idealized and dramatized in an early attempt to escape into fantasy worlds, and as a reaction to the general dismissal Cherry Peel's lyrics had gotten. Proceeding albums would stray even further from Kevin's personal life. [6]
SF Weekly thought that "when the band's sound jells ... Of Montreal easily hold its own alongside such pop adventurers as Brian Wilson and Harry Nilsson." [7]
AllMusic wrote: "A continuation and maturation of the playfulness exhibited on earlier releases, Of Montreal create a brand of theatrical psychedelic pop that many of their '60s predecessors hinted at but only a few achieved." [2]
The Japanese release contained two bonus tracks which appear on the United States release of Horse & Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed): The Singles and Songles Album .
Kevin Ayers was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. After living for many years in Deià, Mallorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France. His last album, The Unfairground, was released in 2007. The British rock journalist Nick Kent wrote: "Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music. Everything that came after came from them."
Of Montreal is an American indie pop band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontperson Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance between Barnes and a woman "of Montreal". The band is identified as part of the Elephant 6 collective. Throughout its existence, of Montreal's musical style has evolved considerably and drawn inspiration from 1960s psychedelic pop acts.
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Kevin Lawrence Barnes is the singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter for the indie rock group of Montreal, part of the Elephant 6 Collective. Barnes started the band and, although providing several stories as to the origin of the name, is said to have named it after a failed romance with a woman from Montreal. The group has recorded 18 full-length albums, and numerous EPs and 7" singles. Barnes' brother, David, is an artist and has designed most of the band's artwork for albums since the release of The Gay Parade.
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