Dancers, puppets, eyeballs, oh my!

of Montreal came to Royale on Tuesday March 25th to shake things up, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album Sunlandic Twins with a show that saw them play the entire album in full. of Montreal’s backup dancers behind the full band nearly stole the show, with hits like “Wraith Pinned to the Mist (and Other Games)” featuring them swirling and twirling behind frontman Kevin Barnes in increasingly outlandish costumes. However, it was the deeper album cuts like “I was Never Young” and “The Party’s Crashing Us” that sounded even better live. The colorfully-dressed crowd swayed and and cheered all night, even through an encore that included a cover of David Bowie’s “Suffragette City”. Rising dreampop locals Layzi opened.

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