This album experience begins with the packaging.

The 32-sided, pop-up poster is psychedelically charged with all its colors. Once opened, it sets up the soon-to-be listener for the down-the-rabbit-hole experience that is Of Montreal.

Album art is rarely worth mentioning these days. This is clearly the exception. It’s like falling into a crayon box.

“Nonpareil of Favor” opens the disc in happy, yet offbeat Of Montreal fashion.

“Wicked Wisdom” comes next, a wistful track fully laden with expletives. It puts an interesting spin on being different and the incredible highs and trials thereof. “My goat, my crab, my scorpion / You’re my icons ’cause you’re different,” sings frontman Kevin Barnes.

“For Our Elegant Caste” mixes a disco beat with a pensive, thoughtful bridge. It leads suddenly into the interlude, “Touched Something’s Hollow,” before breaking into the album’s likely single.

“An Eluardian Instance” exhibits the springy, joyful spirit for which Of Montreal is appreciated. At this point, it’s evident the free-flowing nature of the album isn’t a fluke. The lack of breaks in between tracks only enhances the full packed sound experience. If you’re looking for the next radio hit, you’ve come to the wrong place. It’s all or nothing.

The token dance track is “Gallery Piece,” a description of what an ideal, reckless night of debauchery might entail. Racy and flippant, this number will make any listener realize their inner dancing queen.

Inexplicable weirdness, however, ensues with “Women’s Studies Victims,” and plays on through “St. Exquisite’s Confessions.” With lyrics all over the place, this is the lull of the album. Even in this collection of raucous madness, some things just don’t make sense.

The track list ends on an energetic note with “Id Engager,” another mantra about the primal, sexy instincts of desire.

Rather than a collection of separate, free-standing songs, “Skeletal Lamping (Dig)” is an hour’s worth of streaming sound that just happens to switch song titles along the way.

While perhaps two-dimensional at times, Of Montreal delivers a solid, however completely avant garde record.

It’s been a long time coming for Of Montreal.

The band first appeared on the music scene in 1997 and for the most part, the band has thrived in the independent scene with their over-the-top stage shows and flamboyant costumes.

Their music certainly hasn’t changed because of it. Hopefully, the mainstream can handle it.