Pitchfork

Prescient Kevin Barnes somehow knew to (falsely) claim hailing from Quebec's indie hotspot long before it was the fashionable thing to do. And while Of Montreal in fact have their origins in wacky Athens, Georgia, that hasn't stopped Barnes and company from becoming one of indie's most beloved acts in recent years, Canadian or not.

Expect the collective squeal of a thousand live-journalers, then, since Barnes dropped by the Daytrotter studios recently to perform acoustic renditions of two brand new tunes and two Of Montreal favorites: Satanic Panic in the Attic's "Lysergic Bliss", The Sunlandic Twins' "Requiem for O.M.M.2", and a pair of jams from quizzically-titled new disc Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (due January 27 via Polyvinyl)-- "Suffer for Fashion" and "Eagle-Shaped Mirror". Evil people who've been rocking leaked copies of Hissing Fauna might recognize the latter song as "Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider", but we wouldn't know anything about that.

All four live sessions are available for download now at Daytrotter. Of Montreal, meanwhile, play Mexico City's Azteca Stadium on November 11 as part of Corona Fest.