The band will warm up for the run with a trio of festival appearances in Europe: August 8 at Off Festival in Myslowice, Poland, August 9 at London Field Day and August 10 at Summer Sundae Festival in Leicester, U.K.

Of Montreal kicks off the multi-continent trek for Lamping October 7 at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, N.C., and will play a handful of U.S. dates before heading to Europe for a couple of weeks, with stops in Paris; London; Barcelona, Spain; Rome; Berlin and Stockholm, Sweden.

The second leg of the band’s North American tour launches October 24 at The Pageant in Saint Louis and wraps in late November.

Other venues on the itinerary include the Riviera Theatre in Chicago (October 27), Metropolis in Montreal (October 29), The Tabernacle in Atlanta (November 8), Warehouse Live in Houston (November 12), the Ogden Theatre in Denver (November 16), Showbox SoDo in Seattle (November 19) and the Grand Ballroom at Regency Center in San Francisco (November 21).

Tickets for some shows are available at Ticketmaster.com.

Lamping, due the same day the tour kicks off, is Of Montreal’s ninth studio release.

On the band’s MySpace page, Frontman Kevin Barnes told fans he’s pleased with the new album, but they should expect the unexpected.

“I am very happy with [the new album],” Barnes said. “I worry that some people are going to misunderstand it. There’s nothing I can do about that though now, because it is done. Anyway, I didn’t create it to give people something to like. I created it because I was compelled to.

“It is possible to view this album as one long composition, with lots of different movements, or just as a collection of pop songs. I wanted to make an album that was unpredictable and, at times, startling, yet always hummable and catchy.

“Some of the transitions are intentionally awkward. I did this to keep the listener off guard and to dismantle people’s perception of how an album is supposed to be constructed.”

As for the disc’s title, Barnes said it’s a reference to self examination.

“I spend most of my time in a state of mild confusion and pensiveness. I imagine most people do too. This record is my attempt to bring all of my puzzling, contradicting, disturbing, humorous…fantasies, ruminations and observations to the surface, so that I can better dissect and understand their reason for being in my head.

“Lamping is the name of a rather dreadful hunting technique where hunters go into the forest at night, flood an area in light, then shoot or capture the animals as they panic and run from their hiding places.

“This album is my attempt at doing this to my proverbial skeletons. I haven’t yet decided if I should shoot or just capture them though.”