Roy Montgomery: Classic or Dud etc etc

Oh man, that looks fantastic, I posted last week about Spotify leading me on by posting new Roy Montgomery: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MC_rBBAiC2Y/maxresdefault.jpg

gotta hear about him sometime

I posted that Roy Montgomery link to the proper Roy Montgomery's facebook wall to much hilarity.

but seriously, I ordered the box set, and... that is a lot of roy montgomery all at once!

No complaints, of course.

Anyone have "Live At The Gladstone Hotel"? There's a hidden track or two tacked on to the end of "Hurricane Fighter Plane", anyone know what they are?

It's out: https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/r-m-h-q-headquarters

just in time for autumn cold front!

It's quite lovely

If I had to pick one song:

https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hungover-heroes

It's called that for a reason.

just bought the digital but it doesn't have the tracks broken up into the 4 "distinct" LPs. Is the individual tracklisting anywhere?

R: Tropic of Anodyne
1. Tropic of Anodyne
2. Dear Future Loser
3. You Always Get What You Deserve
4. I Was A Distant Star
5. Seven Faded Dreams
6. If And Only If
7. Hanging Melody
8. As The Sun Sets

M: Darkmotif Dancehall
1. Rough Take-Off
2. 10538 Overdrive
3. Little Big Star
4. Dazed Pig Dreamhome Slide
5. At The Gogol Au Go Go (for Natstya Terekhova)
6. Six Guitar Salute To Peter Gutteridge
7. Making Love In A Blast Furnace
8. Slow Heroes
9. Rough Landing

H: Bender
1. Ten Beers With Five Beers At Two Guns, Arizona
2. I.O.U. Otto
3. Pipeline
4. And Later We Looked Up At The Stars
5. A Guitar Called Boomslang
6. Another David Lynch Thanks, No Ice
7. Chasing Monica Vitti
8. Cocktails With Can

Q: Transient Global Amnesia
1. Otherness
2. Riding
3. Last Alarm (for Brad Fletcher)
4. Unshore
5. Weathering Mortality (feat. Emma Johnston)

thanks

wanted to do the same thing with the digital tracks myself :)

weird. on digital files, song is called "Five Bears at Two Guns Arizona"

Guessing it should be "Ten Beers with Five Bears at Two Guns, Arizona"

Thanks for that. Arranged the digital tracks similarly.

some of this stuff is really trippy, closer to like william tyler and dustin wong or kaki king than the blues stuff i'd imagined

hahahahaha fuck me i was getting this dude mixed up with roy buchanan, never mind

i was like damn roy done changed his style up in the 80s

"down from that hill and up from the pond" and "ill at home" remain my 2 favorite roy montgomery songs, "winding it out in the high country" and that whole album too
can someone give me a little description of what's in this box set?

you guys this box set is so so good

LL, you have probably investigated by now but it's four albums of new material, one with vocals three instrumental. so far I like Bender the most, but it's going to take a while. as a whole it falls more on the scenes from the south island side than the temple IV side, but darkmotif dancehall has some of the heaviness of now the rain sounds...

Love his instrumentals but can't take his voice

I haven't investigated -- I have been really busy! Thank you -- that's exactly what I wanted to know :) Three instrumental is a good sign!
Not a huge fan of his voice either unless he is whispering creepily. It's alright.

I love his voice because I can sing along to it, unlike 99% of the vocalists I love

Ha! I know the feeling.

Love his voice and always happy to hear it.

Bought the new issue of the Wire for the Roy article, probably first time buying an issue since the mid 90s!

No offense to the Wire, I just don't buy magazines much.

As the Sun Sets from Tropic of Anodyne is my theme song for 2017.

aaaaaaand new album:

https://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products/montgomery-roy-suffuse-lp-with-bonus-second-lp-option-pre-order

Called "Suffuse" and it's got tracks he wrote for a handful of guest vocalists, most of whom seem to have taken him up on the offer!

1) Apparition (with Haley Fohr)
2) Rainbird (with She Keeps Bees)
3) Outsider Love Ballad No 1 (with Katie Von Schleicher)
4) Mirage (with Purple Pilgrims)
5) Sigma Octantis (with Julianna Barwick)
6) Landfall (with Liz Harris)

There's a bonus LP available with the vinyl edition which seems to have instantly sold out.

the bonus lp version cost like $52 fuck that shit

it's made from melted down copies of rarer, more expensive records

Haley Fohr!

It's a lovely record.

damn this is a great album!

Scenes From the South Island is so fucking good

^^^^^

I ended up really loving Suffuse as well

And not only is it so fucking good, it's going to be available again soon!

https://grouper.bandcamp.com/album/scenes-from-the-south-island

wait, that song is Nor'wester Head On? I always thought that was Winding It Out in the High Country!

Liz's song on Suffuse is phenomenal

Also forgot to mention, After Nietzsche, the album he released this year with Emma Johnston, is amazing. Emma Johnston has a Liz Fraseresque sorta vocal style (or someone I can't quite place, along the lines of maybe Black Rose or Ordo Equitum Solis... especially on the title track) that totally lights up Roy Montgomery's guitar work, so good.

So the vinyl re-release of Scenes from the South Island has a nice 3-part 16-minute suite as side 4, called Hollyford Valley. Recorded in 2018, not in 1995 with the rest of the album. It's a nice Faith-era Cure sort of sound, a kinda black and white Primary. Instrumental, pretty. So happy he keeps releasing new stuff.

Roy's been posting new tracks on his YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF5NZfRf_kt7ff9rG4la9ig

!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ToEdQiybc

Whole lot more coming in early 2021
https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/roy-montgomery-40th-anniversary-2021-lp-series

I like how he is casually dropping four-album sets these days like it’s NBD

He posted a new cover on his YouTube channel too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpzshwncFw0

new album is gorgeous

New album "That Best Forgotten Work" is a vocal album! I love his doomy voice, has Roy sung much on his solo albums? The ones I've checked out have been exclusively instrumental.