Charlotte Purified Deluxe: Opaque Red Vinyl LP

Hailing from Pittsburgh, Montell Fish is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer and composer focused on making world-building projects. Montell’s unguarded approach to songwriting allows listeners to feel welcomed into his world, of which he is the writer, director, and star. Charlotte is the much-anticipated follow-up album to 2022’s JAIME album, and the second in his Jaime, Charlotte, Marshall album trilogy.

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 album Charlotte, 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. Charlotte is his most fully realized project yet, the sound of a generational talent stepping into his power