Hello weary web traveller! We are Montpelier.
We spend most of our time writing indie-pop songs, singing harmonies and working on cool textures and rhythms to go with them. It’s what we do. We don’t think we could do anything else.
Our manager (who plays keyboards) is crazy. He went couch surfing around the USA and found us a producer. His name was Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros), and we have a man-crush on him. Kevin is 7 foot 14 and we’re a little scared of him too.
But he kindly made us an EP and we’re touring it around the place in March.
We released a single from it last year:
“Don’t shake that smile just yet. There’s another one to be had with another Brisbane group Montpelier – though their piano-indie lends itself to more of a contented sigh than a raucous party guffaw. The established acts Montpelier recall throughout this floating, dreamy, but still somehow grounded excursion are numerous – the pop sensibility of Ben Lee without the smugness, or maybe the cerebral self-awareness of The Panics without their occasional indulgent meanderings. These are big calls to make about a band so new that their eyes are still adjusting to the light, so truly the most startling thing about The Rafters is that it’s the group’s debut. It’s just so … confident? I’m scribbling their name down as the next ‘must see’ local act.’ – Simon Topper, Rave Magazine Single of the week.
Sincerely yours, in coffee, love and dreaming,
Montpelier
