You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece,

tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishi Kesh Hirwe.

Kevin Barnes started of Montreal in 1996, in Athens, Georgia. The Sunlandic Twins came out in

2005. It was their seventh album. And I remember

when that album came out, how it felt like they were suddenly everywhere. And the breakout song

from that breakout album was Wraith Pint to the Mist and other games. And so for this episode,

I spoke to Kevin Barnes about how that song came together and what it meant to them then,

and what it means to them now.

Let's have bizarre celebrations.

Let's forget, who forget, why, forget where, we'll have bizarre celebrations.

I play the Saturn, Cyprus, you the bright beans to bear, babe.

Let's pretend we don't exist.

Let's pretend we're in Antarctica.

Could I get you to just do an introduction for the beginning of the episode?

Yeah.

My name is Kevin Barnes, and I am of Montreal.

So in my understanding, you made a few records in more of a band incarnation, but by the time this album came around, you were making stuff more sort of in a solo mode.

Is that right?

Yeah, I had like a pretty solid lineup for a few

years and we had made a couple of records. The records didn't sell well and people weren't really

fibing with them and people in the band were sort of losing interest in being in Montreal and

wanting to do their own things. And so the band sort of dissolved and then I made Satanic Panic in the Attic by myself for the most part.

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