Barring a last-minute Flaming Lips concert announcement, Of Montreal probably just put on the most visually overstimulating, over the top, batshit crazy fun concert to have hit D.C. this year. Nothing was too sacred for Of Montreal, as dancing Buddhas wore gold lamé, Greek statues shook their genitalia and John McCain’s mug was pictured uttering the famous line “Here’s Johnny!” from The Shining in large cartoonish letters. It’s no wonder that the escapism of the Athens band sold out the 9:30 Club.

This tour is to last year’s shows as upcoming (but widely leaked) release Skeletal Lamping is to last year’s Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Flamboyant frontman Kevin Barnes wrote and recorded the deeply personal but wildly multilayered Hissing Fauna in a solitary and depressive stage after a separation from his wife. The stage show for that tour mirrored the album’s extravagant yet homemade feel with a setup that looked like a hyperactive school production. Pink angel wings, ladder turned skirt, foam lobster claw and other similarly amateur stage props moved onto and across the stage with the help of the traveling stage crew, the CCAA Booty Patrol, with complete disregard to their obvious presence.