When it rains it pours in Montreal. And it’s been pouring Of Montreal all over the airwaves recently following the release last month of their great new album Lousy With Sylvanbriar.  They’ve been making magic at the left-of-the-dial (dials–remember those?) radio stations the past week, including now on 89.3 The Current in Minnesota.  Watch below as Of Montreal performs Hegira Emigre for The Current.

We love the effortless rockabilly/juke-joint guitar play of Bennet Lewis, and Kevin Barnes’ Dylan-esque vocals on this outing.  About Hegira Emigre, Barnes recently told Under The Radar the following:

“That song was kind of inspired by “Tombstone Blues” from Highway 61 Revisited, with a verse and a chorus and a verse and a chorus and a verse and chorus, and there are more than you expected there to be. I didn’t go as far as Dylan and have, like, eight verses. That was my take on that. It’s cool because Kishi Bashi plays on it at the end, because he did a lot on Paralytic Stalks, so I feel like he helped create what’s cool about that album. A lot of it is what he did, so it’s cool to get him involved on this, because it’s a completely different kind of record stylistically. That was a really fast one to do, too. We only did a couple of versions of it. Highway 61 Revisited is definitely a big influence. That record feels really spontaneous, and they probably only did a handful of takes, and it’s all about the guys in the room playing well together.”

Check it out below, and listen to the rest of The Current session HERE.