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Jan 23, 2015 |
The ever wonderful Ian Hazeldine, aka Antonymes, steps up to the plate and presents the next installment in our MixTape series. Those who follow the work of Hazeldine will know his work under the Antonymes moniker is as much about timing as it is about texture and...
Jan 23, 2015 |
One of our favourite blogs, Misfit City, has just posted a wonderful, sprawling wrap up of 2014. It features some fantastic music (live and recorded), including a healthy dose of love for Hidden Shoal and its artists. Here’s a snippet, “Hidden Shoal...
Jan 21, 2015 |
Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the signing of the awesome French outfit Les Limbes. Born from the ashes of a number of previously active bands from Bordeaux, south west France (Beautiful Lunar Landscape, Nihil, Nucold), Les Limbes build on their heritage and...
Jan 19, 2015 |
The sublime audio-visual live experience that is Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt will deliver their magic at this years International Film Festival Rotterdam. They will perform as part of the Mind The Gap Nights put on in conjunction with the wonderful Gonzo Circus...
Jan 19, 2015 |
Kryshe’s stunning In Between EP and Slow Dancing Society’s The Cogent Sea album and The Dusk Recital EP have landed in Igloo Magazine’s Best of 2014 list. All three releases received glowing reviews at Igloo during 2014 thanks to the wonderful...
Jan 19, 2015 |
Slow Dancing Society‘s stunning release of last year, The Cogent Sea, has scooped a place in Ambient Music Guide’s Best of 2014 list! In a year packed with a tonne of brilliant releases in the genre, it’s lovely to see Drew Sullivian (aka Slow...
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Jan 19, 2015 |
“Todd Tobias, best known for his time and work with Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices, recently released Impossible Cities, and now he offers a tasty new track, “Kur,” for free download. The song trudges at a steady pace with heavy drums and raging guitar while...
Jan 19, 2015 |
“Another outstanding hybrid of electronica and ambient rock from one from the best modern exponents of a style that some also might call (ahem) shoegaze or (cough) post-rock. This is American composer Drew Sullivan’s sixth release as Slow Dancing Society,...
Jan 15, 2015 |
“This is the fifth solo album from former guitarist for The Unemployed Ministers, Markus Mehr. Across the eight tracks, the German experimental artist covers all manner of strange and confronting sounds while maintaining an underlying ambiance throughout. There...
Jan 15, 2015 |
“North to Augsburg in Germany, and Markus Mehr moved his singular vision on another notch by exploring what you might call the personal soundscapes around each of us. This track is a great example. Machine whirr. Grinding industrial ebb and flo. Lush piano...
Jan 15, 2015 |
“A gorgeous chamber piano miniature with shades of Ryuichi Sakamoto, another singular Hidden Shoal release last year. It’s dreamy (as you might expect with a title like that), rich, luxurious even like the lyric near the end. That piano basically, I...
Jan 15, 2015 |
“Brilliantly coiled and deceptively low key psych folk beast by Todd Tobias and Steve Five from their album Positive Haywires. I particularly love the way this song feels like it’s about to fall apart around the midpoint. It holds its shit together but the...
