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Of Montreal<\/a> have a new album on the way. Aethermead<\/em>, the follow-up to 2024\u2019s Lady on the Cusp<\/em><\/a>, arrives June 5 via Polyvinyl<\/a>. Watch David Barnes\u2019 visualizer for new song \u201cWhen<\/a>\u201d below.<\/p>\n In a press release, Barnes said he made the album after a breakup and a move from Vermont to Brooklyn, where he recorded Aethermead<\/em> with engineer Drew Vandenberg and Of Montreal live members Clayton Rychlik, Jojo Glidwell, and Ross Brand. \u201cI\u2019ve always had a romantic fascination with New York, but for forever I couldn\u2019t figure out how to make it work,\u201d Barnes said. \u201cThe timing was perfect this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n Of the single, they added, \u201c\u2018When\u2019 is more a song about yearning, sadness, confusion, frustration… than it is a song about having sex. Clearly all of the things listed in the verses are the things I actually desire. I\u2019m hiding behind a shield of sexual bravado and pretending as if my only needs are physical. It\u2019s very transparent that I\u2019m longing for much more than just libidinal fulfilment, but those other things are being withheld. It\u2019s much easier to say \u2018When can I fuck you again?\u2019 than it is to say \u2018When will you be loving, affectionate, and emotionally generous and make me feel whole again?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Last month, Kevin Barnes and co. announced a sprawling North American tour<\/a> that will keep them on the road for most of the summer. They reissued<\/a> 2005\u2019s The Sunlandic Twins<\/em><\/a> for its 20th anniversary last year.<\/p>\n