Q & A with of Montreal

Can you tell us a bit about the new album, False… Can you tell us a bit about the new album, False Priest?

“So as far as the live band goes, we don’t really do much in the records anymore. They’re Kevin [Barnes]’s thing. But [we provide] support, I guess. Right now he’s mixing it with John Bryan, and what I’ve heard of it is fantastic. It sounds amazing. It sounds so pro and huge. It’s pretty much going to be like a next level kind of thing for us.”

Are you performing any of those songs live right now on tour?

“We’re playing two songs right now on the tour — a song called ‘Coquet Coquette,’ which we actually just shot a video for, and then a song called ‘Famine Affair.’”

Can you tell us a bit about your new side project, Yip Deceiver?

“It’s kind of half electronic dance rock stuff, just good time kind of dance music. It’s kind of inspired a lot by Top 40 rap nowadays, like I’m really into hip-hop now. Actually not hip-hop per se, just rap.”

So since you’re actually from Georgia, where did the name of Montreal come from?

“You know there’s so many stories going around right now, mainly I think because we just got tired of telling the real one. Basically it had something to do with a girl Kevin was dating a long time ago, and he needed a name for the band. She’s from Montreal, so there you go. That’s the boring one that’s actually true. But we tell people it was a traveling sex cult, and that it was some kind of commune we were living on.”

How’s the tour going?

“The tour’s going very well right now. Tonight’s going to be fourth show of the tour. We did New Orleans, Austin and Dallas last night. They all went really, really well, like surprisingly well since we just didn’t know what to expect … We’re actually doing more theatrics on it than we have on other tours, and the production of it is pretty over the top as far as that goes. But people have been reacting really, really [well.]”