Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

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For more than a decade, Of Montréal — actually from Athens, Ga. — have remained the well-guarded secret of elite indie-music aesthetes and snobbish record-store clerks. That’s likely about to change. Produced by Jon Brion (Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Rufus Wainwright) the band’s forthcoming album, False Priest, is the most widely anticipated of their career, and features vocal cameos from experimental neo-soul diva Janelle Monae as well as Solange Knowles — aka Beyoncé’s vastly hipper kid sis. Touring in advance of the new record, the band stops by the Higher Ground ballroom this Saturday. Alt-pop wonders Ortolan open.