A couple weeks ago Of Montreal posted a "new" song, "A Cloud Crashes," at their MySpace site. (You can still download it there.) As Harnk, Squirrellevel, vacantmoon, and Freek have noted at the Townhall and OA, this song is actually "Chopsticks" and is, according to Freek, "an interpretation of the Japanese song of the same name by the band Toastgirl. It appears on their Chopsticks Best CD from 2003, only released in Japan." (You can view the CD at this Japanese page.) The song also circulated on an OM disc that featured an "Ah Me Kitten" demo (aka "Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks") and a few other rare songs.

The odd thing about "A Cloud Crashes" at the MySpace page is that it appears with a small piece of David Barnes art and the album title A Freaked Descension/1111 GOP Eunuchs. And this started speculation that the album was a new "singles and songles" album, in the manner of previous "singles and songles" albums The Horse and Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed) and If He is Protecting Our Nation, Then Who Will Protect Big Oil, Our Children? Of Montreal have been so prolific recently--astoundingly so--that a new compilation is certainly called for to help sort out all the obscure releases.

Kevin Barnes has now confirmed the rumor. He writes Optical Atlas, "Yeah it will be a sort of singles and songles type of comp. It probably won't come out for awhile but it does look like the remix album will come out pretty soon."

The remix album to which he refers will feature artists such as !!!, Supersystem, Broken Spindles, Grizzly Bear, IQU, Mixel Pixel, Trash UK, DJ Dave Pianka, and I Am the World Trade Center all remixing tracks from the last two OM albums.

As more information comes, we'll keep you posted.