In the flurry of new album releases this year, I really haven't had ample time to express my love for Of Montreal's latest, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? It came out back in January, but the Athens, GA, psych-pop outfit is holding steady atop my list of 2007's best albums.

Don't let the bizarre album title or the even weirder song titles scare you: Hissing Fauna is first and foremost a pop album. At once hyper-actively upbeat and unexpectedly dark, the songs span a technicolor spectrum of styles and moods that keep you guessing even on repeated listens. And the totally bizarre music video for "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse" only makes me love Of Montreal more. As best I can tell, it features a grown man dancing around in a white unitard — quite earnestly, I might add — alongside plush bears and Norwegian soldiers and ... is that a squid? If you're intrigued, read more