Oct 5, 2016 | Features & Articles, Interviews, Memorybell News |
On his debut album as Memorybell, Grant Hazard Outerbridge delivered an abject lesson in need versus want. Obsolete is more than a simple minimalist document, indeed it could be argued that Outerbridge’s deft touch and innate sense of time make each of its...Sep 29, 2016 | Arc Lab News, Featured Track, Features & Articles, Licensing News |
As soon as its tense, antagonistic beat kicks in, Arc Lab‘s ‘Through the Burning Glass’ begins to stretch out before the listener like a vivid, grey horizon. Its diffuse but expressively cadenced rhythms and melodic lines ascend and circulate the song’s...Jun 20, 2016 | Erik Nilsson, Featured Track, Features & Articles, Licensing News |
On ‘Ex Nihilo’, the quicksilver opener to his superb 2015 album Hearing Things, Erik Nilsson‘s impressionistic deployment of the guitar is very much in the tradition of Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis: minimal notes, maximum impact. The track...May 12, 2016 | Features & Articles, Memorybell News, Mixtapes, News Updates |
With an album due out next month that is an abject lesson in understanding the spaces between things, Grant Hazard Outerbridge (aka Memorybell) is well poised to present this beautiful mixtape, aptly entitled Still. Lets hand it over to the man himself to explain....Dec 10, 2015 | Features & Articles, Interviews |
Chicago band Roommate, led by Kent Lambert, came to our attention in the second half of 2015 thanks to a glowing review of their fourth album MAKE LIKE on review site Coke Machine Glow. Since then, it’s been blasted regularly in the Hidden Shoal offices, and has...Nov 30, 2015 | Antonymes, Cheekbone, Chloë March News, Elisa Luu, Erik Nilsson, Features & Articles, Kryshe News, Licensing News, Markus Mehr, Medard Fischer News, Mixtapes, Sleeping Me News, Slow Dancing Society News, Todd Tobias News |
Here we present the MixTape version of Long Range Transmissions, the first in a new series of themed compilations from Hidden Shoal. The album showcases the ambient and neo-classical side of the catalogue, bringing together beautiful tracks from artists as diverse as...