Montaigne

Since first emerging in 2012, Montaigne has established themselves as one of Australia’s most eclectic performers, a natural storyteller and entertainer that has captured attention across the world.

Their expansive debut album GLORIOUS HEIGHTS arrived in 2016, featuring the ARIA Platinum certified single ‘Because I Love You’. The album earned landed at #4 on the ARIA charts, and Montaigne took home the ‘Best Breakthrough Artist’ award at the 2016 ARIA Awards.

In 2019, Montaigne was selected to represent Australia at Eurovision in Rotterdam 2020, having won the Eurovision: Australia Decides competition with their stunning original song, ‘Don’t Break Me’. While the global music event was delayed due to the pandemic, Montaigne returned in 2021 to represent Australia on the world stage in May of 2021 with their kaleidoscopic single ‘Technicolour’.

Montaigne returned with third album making it! in 2022. Key amongst making it! were two urgent and gloriously prismatic songs sculpted alongside Talking Heads’ visionary leader David Byrne.

Refusing to be boxed in, Montaigne has also worked in theatre, musical comedy, podcasts and video games with an ever-diversifying portfolio. They were recently nominated for a 2024 Grammy for their songwriting work on Australian indie video game 'Stray Gods' alongside Austin Wintory and Tripod.

They are currently working on their fourth album and stream weekly on Twitch.