of Montreal
w/ cumgirl8
Monday, March 24
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
$23 Members / $25 General Admission Advance / $30 GA Day of Show
All ages / Standing
On of Montreal’s seminal album The Sunlandic Twins, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Barnes followed up their 2004 Polyvinyl debut, Satanic Panic in the Attic, with what became the band’s most commercially successful album to date. Originally released in April 2005, The Sunlandic Twins marked a significant turning point for of Montreal, showcasing Barnes’ evolving songwriting and a shift towards a more electronic and dance-oriented sound. The album’s vibrant blend of synth-pop and psych rock helped cement its status as a fan favorite and a defining moment in the band’s career. Iconic tracks like “Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games” and “The Party’s Crashing Us” became some of the most beloved songs in the band’s extensive catalog.
About cumgirl8:
“In the belly of the album, I found myself in a sonic house of mirrors, anxiously waiting for Lida’s deep whispers to turn into shrieks. Haunting piano and synthesizers intensified emotions, disorienting listeners before they travel back to their own dimension.” – Passion of the Weiss
After meeting in a sex chat 8000 years ago, cumgirl8 – Veronika Vilim (guitar), Chase Lombardo (drums), Lida Fox (bass), and Avishag Rodrigues (guitar) – have constructed a dense lore that spans multiple genres, timelines, and dimensions. Evocative of AIM handles of yore and stamped with a hypersexual ethos, their moniker is a simultaneous wink to the freedom granted by online anonymity, and a cheer for the sex-positive, sex worker-supportive possibilities of the web at its most utopian. A product of the experiences they’ve had across their many lives, their discography is a warped, fucked up ‘coat of many colors,’ with their forthcoming debut 4AD album, the 8th cumming, being no different. “We want people to be afraid of what’s coming.”
Earlier this year, cumgirl8 shared two standalone singles, “quite like love” and “glasshour,” released to praise from the likes of PAPER Magazine, The FADER, Post-Punk, and Brooklyn Vegan. Both new singles served as a follow-up to last year’s EP release, phantasea pharm (their debut release with 4AD).
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Funded in part by a grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation – Rutman Family Fund.
Thank you to our year-round Lead Sponsors: AC Hotel Portsmouth, The Brook, Katzman Contemporary Projects, MacEdge, Raka, Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel.