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Photo credit: Brandon Minton

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“Fish is an emblematic artist of the digital generation” – Highsnobiety

“Multifaceted artist” – Billboard

“A pretty mysterious artist” – HotNewHipHop

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Recently, genre-bending R&B sensation Montell Fish released two new singles, “DISTRACTION” and “SCREAM MY NAME,” via Virgin Music. Listen to “DISTRACTION” and “SCREAM MY NAME” HERE. “SCREAM MY NAME” is already being featured in over 50,000 videos on TikTok and counting. These singles are separate from the artist’s newly announced album CHARLOTTE, which will be dropping on Friday, August 23rd. Pre-save the album HERE. Fish has also recently announced his North American tour in promotion of CHARLOTTE. The 20+ date tour will canvas the United States and Canada, beginning on September 11th in Boston, MA at Royale and wrapping on October 24th at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn. Tickets can be purchased HERE.

Set against an electric guitar riff and ethereal melody, both of which have come to be emblematic of Fish’s sound, “DISTRACTION” finds the artist crooning “you’re such a distraction, I swear you’re made for my madness” as he struggles with being all consumed by another. It’s the push and pull we’re so used to in Fish’s music – swept up in an obsession, but aware that the outcome won’t bode well (“I can’t keep letting this happen” is the refrain we hear echoed at the end). “SCREAM MY NAME” on the other hand finds Fish showcasing his falsetto, still gleaming under a thick coating of reverb. The beginnings of madness are tangible here, with the refrain of “you haven’t screamed my name in a while” highlighting Fish’s doubt and desire for reassurance. 

Separately, Fish’s upcoming album CHARLOTTE – coming Friday, August 23rd – will be a raw collection of songs that explore the highs and lows of love, ambition, and self-actualization. It probes deep into themes of memory, attachment, loss, and growth, and the psychology behind all of these human experiences. While Montell wrote the record, the continuation of the trilogy that began with Jamie (2022), Fish read about psychology, memory, and childhood; the ideas of Freud and Jung provided thoughtful stimulation as he crafted songs that explore growth and attachment—romantic and otherwise. Through lyrics relating to love, power, failure, and success – all universal to the human experience– Montell uses these themes to highlight the same feelings and situations he’s experienced since the formulation of Jamie, in regards to his own struggle with leaving his faith, and learning to lose and move on from those who were a part of that old audience, team and online fan base. The album comes on the heels of the EP Intercession Before Charlotte, released under his dj gummy bear moniker, which dropped on March 15th.

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CHARLOTTE
Tracklist 

Charlotte
Who Did You Touch?
You Changed on Me.
Do You Remember?
Is it a Crime?
Do For You
You’re The Only One
God or The Devil?
What’s It Take to Be a Star?
It’s Gonna’ Cost You
Waited For You
Don’t You Love Me?
Heaven

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Follow MONTELL FISH
Website – Spotify – X – Facebook
Instagram – TikTok – YouTube 

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About MONTELL FISH:

Across albums, EPs, and side projects, singer-songwriter Montell Fish has plumbed the depths of his emotions and intellect. With each release, he’s constructed further a layered tower of references and metaphors that shakes and sways with the anxieties of a gifted young person straining to reconcile the contradictions of the world: in love, in religion, in art, and in faith. It’s the kind of music that inspires intense feelings and fandom. On his latest albumCHARLOTTE, the follow-up to his 2022 breakout album Jamie, Fish loves thinking about life’s big questions: how does childhood shape a person? What does it mean to have a gift the world wants access to? Raised in a strictly religious household and now out in the world on his own making his art, Fish has a boundaryless curiosity about ways of living and creating.

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AMNPLIFY – DB