The Hard Quartet 22nd October 2024

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IN FOCUS: ROY MONTGOMERY

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.

UNDERGROUND & BLACK W/ ASH LAURYN

Self proclaimed “Underground and Black”, Detroit native Ash Lauryn leads her musical charge with a candid love for the historical roots of dance music, and the power of reclamation in modern day America.

Noise Rock Post Punk Indie Rock

Eccentric indie rock records selected by The Hard Quartet – Stephen Malkmus, Jim White, Matt Sweeney, and Emmett Kelly.

Tracklist

Terry StampTerry Stamp
Honky Honda
Dragged UpDragged Up
Return Of Dafthead
Puppet WipesPuppet Wipes
Refrigerator’s Gold

Weak SignalWeak Signal
Rich Junkie
The SheavesThe Sheaves
Leisure Facts (Domestic Exp)
ShakaneShakane
Dance Of The Dead
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Rose MercieRose Mercie
Witching
Blod, Blod, Shadow PatternShadow Pattern
Uppvaknande / Awakening
Chris Burns & His Going ConcernsChris Burns & His Going Concerns
8 Days A Freak
Sharp PinsSharp Pins
Still a Straw Man
The Shadow RingThe Shadow Ring
Here Come The Candles
OstraalyOstraaly
Struggling
Feeling FiguresFeeling Figures
Across The Line
Terry StampTerry Stamp
Fatsticks
John Du CannJohn Du Cann
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