Roy Montgomery – Last Year's Man [10"] Extreme / Noise / Free Sound Though much of the ‘Introduction’

Though much of the ‘Introduction’ that occupies the record’s first side is spacious and at times almost hushed

Henning Christiansen played a final haunting melody before the instrument was dumped down in the dirt

which means that listening to these tracks takes some effort to get through

Some were never released

aka Luke Eargoggle

Roy Montgomery – Last Year's Man [10"] Extreme / Noise / Free Sound Though much of the ‘Introduction’"My first deep exposure to Leonard Cohen was the "Bird on a Wire" documentary by Tony Palmer, which was, against the odds, broadcast on public television in New Zealand around 1974 or 1975. At age 15 or 16 I thought it was too dark. A few years later, in the late '70s, I wanted things darker. The first Cohen LP was very clever but a little too "up." The second was too public and political for me. Songs of Love and Hate seemed more honest, more about