Roy Montgomery - (1999) 324 E. 13th Street #7 CD

 

Drunken Fish Records – DFR 28

Collecting each of Roy's singles as they were being released was an incredible thing. One after one I was continually blown away. Instrumentals, vocals, it never mattered. Pure brilliance and leading a new found interest in NZ music post Xpressway and Flying Nun. Named after the apartment where Roy spent much of his U.S. sabbatical recording nearly everything heard here while also containing early Shallows' tracks impossible to find along with several solo previously unreleased. Covering releases on a variety of labels, all vocal tracks only, a few including Barbara Manning on the classic Silbreeze 2x7", a Wire cover on Ajax, Roy's "Elegy to Nick Drake" on E.N.D., and Theme For Sandy Bull with Vocals via "Fine, Fine, Fine." Fine indeed, another essential release.