← more from
AD 93
  1. music
  2. merch
  3. community
supported by
weichezaeune
weichezaeune thumbnail
weichezaeune excellent combination of creative skills. montgomerys take on ambient somewhat opened up by murphys voice, pacifying at the same time Favorite track: At Dusk (feat. Mary Lattimore).
Arloco
Arloco thumbnail
sean o)))
sean o))) thumbnail
Richard Clark
Richard Clark thumbnail
awarden
awarden thumbnail
fuckcountry
fuckcountry thumbnail
Michael Knight
Michael Knight thumbnail
thomasgilmore
thomasgilmore thumbnail
Chris Reid
Chris Reid thumbnail
Otis
Otis thumbnail
Garrett E.
Garrett E. thumbnail
burbnluvr
burbnluvr thumbnail
DJ StarFish
DJ StarFish thumbnail
ak1331
ak1331 thumbnail
laura
laura thumbnail
Leroy Jeans
Leroy Jeans thumbnail
eph#meraL
eph#meraL thumbnail
watercoolerdictator
watercoolerdictator thumbnail
david humen
david humen thumbnail
Michael Ball
Michael Ball thumbnail
Jesse Easton
Jesse Easton thumbnail
antoniskappa
antoniskappa thumbnail
Paul Hornsby
Paul Hornsby thumbnail
phillybms
phillybms thumbnail
Andrew Hoffmann
Andrew Hoffmann thumbnail
M E E Jones
M E E Jones thumbnail
smellytongues
smellytongues thumbnail
thetriangleguy
thetriangleguy thumbnail
Renieuw
Renieuw thumbnail
Amnesiac
Amnesiac thumbnail
Kyle Whiting
Kyle Whiting thumbnail
Marc
Marc thumbnail
fabjx
fabjx thumbnail
achud
achud thumbnail
lowercaseryan
lowercaseryan thumbnail
Philip Hill
Philip Hill thumbnail
Richard Mark Hudson
Richard Mark Hudson thumbnail
DAC
DAC thumbnail
roofwalker
roofwalker thumbnail
return-er
return-er thumbnail
horse25millipede
horse25millipede thumbnail
John Gooden
John Gooden thumbnail
Daniel Fine
Daniel Fine thumbnail
Marco
Marco thumbnail
Sascha
Sascha thumbnail
Lachan Simpson
Lachan Simpson thumbnail
shin9996
shin9996 thumbnail
Billy Valvo
Billy Valvo thumbnail
paul grant
paul grant thumbnail
the_sound_ecologist
the_sound_ecologist thumbnail
Gregor Buchkremer
Gregor Buchkremer thumbnail
Landslide Purist
Landslide Purist thumbnail
Spee
Spee thumbnail
Jon Miles
Jon Miles thumbnail
hex
hex thumbnail
Rebecca Jane
Rebecca Jane thumbnail
martyn jordan
martyn jordan thumbnail
adrift
adrift thumbnail
berniesticky
berniesticky thumbnail
Jon L
Jon L thumbnail
Rijnder Wever
Rijnder Wever thumbnail
more...
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card
    Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

      £8 GBP  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Nebular via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.
    ships out within 2 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      £22 GBP or more 

     

1.
At Dawn 05:52
buy track
2.
Cloudburst 07:31
buy track
3.
Satellites Against The Milky Way 06:40
buy track
4.
The Play of Light and Dark 17:15
buy track
5.
At Dusk (feat. Mary Lattimore) 04:13
buy track

about

Roy Montgomery and Martha Skye Murphy first connected when Murphy included one of Montgomery’s songs on a mixtape. Conversations about their respective practices soon followed, revealing a shared musical language. They also discovered they used the same recording device, a Tascam recorder, which prioritises process over correction. Their approach embraces layering, multitracking, and imperfection. Since then, they have developed an ongoing creative relationship, regularly sharing music and crossing paths in various projects. Montgomery later featured on Murphy’s 2024 album Um, released via AD 93 to critical acclaim, while Murphy joined Montgomery during his summer 2023 residency at Cafe OTO.

What draws them together is the emotional force of each other’s music. Montgomery’s cyclical, decaying compositions are shaped through intricate guitar and piano work, blending post-rock, folk, and drone. Murphy, meanwhile, possesses a rare gift for transformation; though her vocals often resemble fragments of words, consonants, or vowels, they frequently function as pure sound, drawing on glossolalia and prioritising feeling over any ‘learnt’ language.

Emotion and intuition are the driving forces behind Nebular, an album that oscillates between the intimate with the unknown. This spirit is reflected in its artwork. Murphy shared a painting by Irish artist Simon English depicting a solitary house bathed in dusky blue light, and the pair quickly settled on it as the cover image. Both were captivated by its atmosphere. Montgomery related it to the isolated, seemingly uninhabited houses he encounters while travelling through rural New Zealand—places that inspire a desire to knock on the door and discover what lies beyond. “Terra incognita springs to mind. A search into the unknown,” Murphy agrees.

The nocturnal and remote nature of the artwork mirrors the process of making Nebular. The album was created entirely through remote correspondence, with stems exchanged via email. Their messages were often written and read at different times of day, and, because of the time difference and the demands of daily life, replies usually were sent late at night and the music too often composed at nocturnal hours. Their exchanges took on the quality of pen pals sending letters across great distances. This suspended sense of time is echoed in Nebular’s sound, with its feeling of temporal drift and timelessness.

On Nebular, Montgomery and Murphy have harnessed raw emotion and launched it into a time capsule bound for the stars. It allows you to drift, to be present, and to feel; creating something timeless.

Martha Skye Murphy comments:
“Roy and I have a shared vernacular in the music we make together; a kind of sonic sign language, which allows us to communicate without ever really explaining the material to one another. This is partly due to our shared process, which embraces layers, multitracking and imperfection (for me). I see our collaboration as a continuously unravelling piece of string; one song leads onto the next like a slowly evolving constellation and I’d like to hope we continue in this vein.”

credits

released August 7, 2026

Mastered by Noel Summerville
Artwork by Simon English: View 36 Service Station, oil on canvas, 2002, and View 41, oil on gesso panel, 2002
Album layout by Ben McLaughlin Studio, London

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Martha Skye Murphy image

Martha Skye Murphy London, UK

'Nebular' by Roy Montgomery and Martha Skye Murphy released 7th August 2026 on AD93

contact / help

Contact Martha Skye Murphy

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Nebular, you may also like: