New Zealand guitarist Roy Montgomery's music was once described by NPR journalist Lars Gotrich as "swimming through phantoms" – it may sound like an overwrought analogy at first, but simply spend half an hour enveloped in Montgomery's tones, and you'll understand.
Originally a part of Pin Group in the 1980s, releasing Joy Division-indebted post-punk on the revered Wellington label Flying Nun records, Montgomery eventually unmoored himself from the strictures of verse-chorus-verse songwriting, and other musicians entirely, composing drifting, gauzy guitar instrumentals that channeled his own personal grief and loneliness into a seductively baleful magic.
London hip hop MC Lord Apex walks us through some of the tracks on his new album, “The Good Fight”, which features a co-production from hip-hop inspiration, Madlib.
London hip hop MC Lord Apex walks us through some of the tracks on his new album, “The Good Fight”, which features a co-production from hip-hop inspiration, Madlib.