Of Montreal – So Begins Our Alabee
Of all of the wonderful things that Of Montreal get up to in their songs, sentimentality isn’t usually amongst them. This made So Begins Our Alabee all the more surprising the first time I heard it. By their standards, the song is deceptively simple. Sure, it throws it obscure references left, right and centre, but underneath, it’s simply a song about becoming a father. Of course, being Of Montreal, they stop this from being irritatingly cute by turning the whole exercise into an upbeat dabble with electronica, which ends up working out rather well for them.
Just thought I would name drop!!! I know them and I do their accounts at work awesome….
Wait a minute… *I* do their accounts – you, sir, must be an impostor!