Album Notes

It is one thing to say a singer is soulful and it is quite another to feel that soul radiate through the music. Kristian Montgomery's impassioned, warm, yet empowering vocals due just that. They reach through the speakers and welcome you into his world. Words woven within a fabric of rhythmic, melodic, earthy modern rock/pop is the music of Kristian Montgomery.

Former lead singer of a well-known Boston band, Kristian was a 1996 Boston Music Award nominee in the 'Outstanding Local Male Vocalist' category. With the break-up of that band in 1997, Kristian left the Boston area to drive across country performing solo acoustic shows in places such as Nashville TN, Savannah GA, and Cities in Florida. Playing these shows got Kristian acclimated to the striped down, unaccompanied genre of performing and allowed him to hone his burgeoning craft as a songwriter. It was during this period that Kristian, through much soul searching and reflection, began to truly come into his own as a guitarist and to form many of the ideas that would become 'Kristian Montgomery'.

Formed in late 1998, 'Kristian Montgomery' recorded their first single within a few short months. Comprised of the tracks 'Idiot Pace', and 'Orleans Warm Water', the single received impressive airplay on local radio stations and rave reviews in various entertainment publications. Always a prolific songwriter, Kristian provided the band with much new material and sights were soon set on recording a full length CD.

In three short years his rhythm section have managed to accomplish a sonic lock that usually takes other bands decades to come to. Philip Greniers drumming shows the proficiency of the modern prog-rock Gods but lacks the pretentiousness usually associated with it. His ability to take the drivers seat and direct the finely crafted songs is above the range and skill of many twice his age.

His rhythm section 'partner in crime' Roc T exhibits a musical sensibility rarely found in bass players at this day and age. Every time you believe it's easy to pass him off he manages to demonstrate his amazing knowledge of musical skill and vision through his instrument. His ability to work with the drums as a singular unit is unparalleled and refreshing to witness in a musical scene that seems to have forgotten it altogether.

Kristian's elaborate guitar-driven riffing is counter pointed by the chameleon-like musicianship of Erick Carpenter. With a set of blues-driven stylings and punk-sensibilities his masterful lead work enhances and never complicates. He clearly illustrates his years of paying attention to more than fifty years of musical evolution and invention. Erick's guitar playing works as an enabler for Kristian's impassioned vocals and constantly evolving musical inventions.

Together these four musicians continue to evolve a sound that emerged from their freshman release 'Opening Water' and subsequent release 'Jupiter 1973', and their best album to date "Weighting Her Down".