Paralytic Stalks is the eleventh full-length studio album by American group of Montreal.

The recording of the album is dense, featuring dark tones and an indiscriminate eclectic nature both electronically and aesthetically.

Kevin Barnes's lyricism also returns to the confessional style heard in Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, entailing dark topics such as revenge, self-hatred, the human condition, and their painful relationship with their wife Nina.

[12] The album was recorded in Barnes' personal studio and was mixed at Chase Park Transduction with engineer Drew Vandenberg, who has mixed albums by Toro y Moi, Futurebirds, and Kishi Bashi.

Some have praised its emotional rawness,[15] while others thought its divergence from the band's previous poppy style was alienating.