Global InformationHeimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse information
| "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse" | ||||
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| Single by Of Montreal | ||||
| from the album Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | ||||
| Released | January 23, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop, neo-psychedelia | |||
| Length | 3:18 | |||
| Label | Polyvinyl | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Kevin Barnes | |||
| Producer(s) | Kevin Barnes | |||
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"Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse" was the first single released by Polyvinyl Records from Of Montreal's 2007 album Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?. Like the rest of the album, the song was written, performed and recorded by Kevin Barnes.
"Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse" was also released as a music video directed by The Brothers Chaps. The song opens up with a Roland Jupiter 8 bass into a lead made with a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, along with A Linn Drum and an electric piano the quirky electronics give the song a 1985 feel.
In an early review of the song, posted shortly after the leak of the album in September 2006, Pitchfork Media's Andy Dubbin describes it as "one of the more breakneck, 'old Of Montreal'-styled songs on an otherwise discofunk-lite album, bringing proper attention to itself without overextending its theme."[1]
- ^ Dubbin, Andy (26 September 2006). "Track review: Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2009.