thanks
― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
wanted to do the same thing with the digital tracks myself :)
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
weird. on digital files, song is called "Five Bears at Two Guns Arizona"
― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:38 (seven years ago) link
Guessing it should be "Ten Beers with Five Bears at Two Guns, Arizona"
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for that. Arranged the digital tracks similarly.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 October 2016 08:18 (seven years ago) link
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
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
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
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
"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 toocan someone give me a little description of what's in this box set?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
you guys this box set is so so good
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
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...
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
Love his instrumentals but can't take his voice
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 12:36 (seven years ago) link
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.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link
I love his voice because I can sing along to it, unlike 99% of the vocalists I love
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
Ha! I know the feeling.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
Love his voice and always happy to hear it.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
Bought the new issue of the Wire for the Roy article, probably first time buying an issue since the mid 90s!
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
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.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 9 January 2017 01:33 (seven years ago) link
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.
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
the bonus lp version cost like $52 fuck that shit
― adam, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
it's made from melted down copies of rarer, more expensive records
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
Haley Fohr!
― + +, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
It's a lovely record.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
damn this is a great album!
― crüt, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Scenes From the South Island is so fucking good
― JoeStork, Sunday, 7 July 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
^^^^^
I ended up really loving Suffuse as well
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 7 July 2019 08:57 (four years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
wait, that song is Nor'wester Head On? I always thought that was Winding It Out in the High Country!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
Liz's song on Suffuse is phenomenal
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
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.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
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.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 18 January 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
Roy's been posting new tracks on his YouTube channel:http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF5NZfRf_kt7ff9rG4la9ig
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 9 May 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
!!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ToEdQiybc
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 23 August 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
Whole lot more coming in early 2021https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/roy-montgomery-40th-anniversary-2021-lp-series
― JoeStork, Saturday, 7 November 2020 03:54 (three years ago) link
I like how he is casually dropping four-album sets these days like it’s NBD
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Saturday, 7 November 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link
He posted a new cover on his YouTube channel too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpzshwncFw0
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 7 November 2020 08:06 (three years ago) link
new album is gorgeous
― eisimpleir (crüt), Saturday, 17 April 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 12 June 2021 13:38 (two years ago) link
On and off. Love the singing. Always
― dan selzer, Saturday, 12 June 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
"Suffuse" had female guest vocalists singing vocal parts he'd written
― eisimpleir (crüt), Saturday, 12 June 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
buy his singles comp 324 E. 13th Street #7, it has plenty of songs with vocals!
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Saturday, 12 June 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
Don't forget the Dadamah and Dissolve albums!
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 12 June 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
The singles comp as mentioned with the swallows single and Something Else Again? One of my favorites.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 12 June 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
I wrote this: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/29/cult-guitarist-roy-montgomery-on-flying-nun-grief-and-embracing-mistakes-its-an-existential-thing. Camera Melancholia is magnificent.
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
Truly.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
oh! this must be live on Spotify soon so I can listen at work... got the vinyl in the mail a few days ago
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
(also great article!)
Thank you!
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
Lovely article/interview - I'm a NZer and I'd never heard some of those biographical details before. Glad he's got the Dry Cleaning support slot here - hoping that + the new Matthew Goody Flying Nun book will give him a bit more local attention.
― etc, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
Nice interview, thanks for sharing. I picked up RMHQ earlier this year and greatly enjoyed it. Spun all four discs on repeat on a day trip through a national park in the Pacific Northwest.
― ilxor, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 04:27 (one year ago) link