Roy Montgomery - Guitars Infernal LP

Roy Montgomery returns with an album of guitar instrumentals that, while recorded a decade ago, feels particularly prescient at the moment. Turbulent waves of feedback and incredibly rich tone crash into one another. While there’s a similar psychedelia to Montgomery’s album, his sounds considerably more aligned with a kind of natural awe. To allow a moment of grandiose cliche or lazy metaphor, on first listen to Guitar Infernal my mind is drawn to the massive geological and meteorological forces (ie. earthquakes, volcanoes, gales) that have shaped his homeland of Aotearoa, or, to more simply riff off the album and song titles, the intensity and scale of a bushfire. Beautiful, intense stuff as one would expect from Montgomery!
–Mitch