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Mar 5, 2015 |
The wonderful Cafe del Mar have just dropped their latest compilation, Sunscapes, featuring the track ‘Only For a While’ from Hidden Shoal’s sonic mastermind Markus Mehr! The album is a beautiful collection of ambient gems featuring artists such as...
Mar 5, 2015 |
A beautiful sister mix to Markus Mehr‘s previous Kitsch before Glitch mixtape. This time around Mehr takes us from David Sylvian to Thomas Köner to Aphex Twin to The Beatles and beyond. Let’s hand it over to the man himself to explain, “This is the...
Mar 4, 2015 |
Ahead of his forthcoming French tour, dream-pop troubadour Kramies has dropped another gorgeous track produced by Jason Lytle (Grandaddy). ‘The Fate That Never Favored Us’ is a lilting, swaying cosmic waltz, delicately built around melancholy acoustic guitar and eerie...
Mar 4, 2015 |
We’re very excited to announce a new member to the Hidden Shoal family in the form of Ryan E. Weber (aka REW<<). We’ve had the pleasure of sitting with Weber’s forthcoming second album as REW<<, Olive Skinned, Silver Tongued Sirens Sing...
Feb 25, 2015 |
Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the release of ‘1984’, the first cut from Axis Swim Scar, the debut album by dream-pop architects The October Solution (Drew Sullivan of Slow Dancing Society and City of Satellites, and Jarrod Manuel of City of Satellites). While...
Feb 19, 2015 |
It’s hard to believe Sicilian quintet HC-B released their masterpiece Soundcheck for a Missing Movie back in 2009. Those who thought this was the last great sonic document from the band will be pleased to know it’s not and that we have some exciting news...
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Feb 16, 2015 |
“london based dream pop chanteuse chloe march has released a second spaced out music video from her excellent current album, ‘nights bright days’. this new tune, ‘orpheus head’, is a crystalline ballad of obsession that has chloe creating...
Feb 16, 2015 |
“Now five albums deep into a well-developed and diverse career within your basic experimental ambient/drone/noise framework, Germany’s Markus Mehr returned late last year with his latest album Binary Rooms, pushing his emotionally-charged sonic sculptures into...
Feb 12, 2015 |
“Best Albums of 2014 – A remotely composed album between an American and a Belgian trading their material only on the Internet, Revolving Maze overcomes borders on multiple dimensions. Mixing cinematic compositions ala Craig Armstrong, trip-hop, IDM,...
Feb 12, 2015 |
“Today I’m sharing a new video for a really cool electronic driven instrumental track from the international duo Involved. I don’t share a lot of videos unless it’s the only way to share a song, but sometimes the artistic element of a video plus the mood of the...
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,...
