Nov 19, 2015 | AWMA Reviews, Reviews
“From 1998 to 2001, the San Francisco-based band Half Film (Conor Devlin, Eimer Devlin, Jason Lakin) made records and toured. After the split, the Devlin brothers continued as [the] caseworker, while Jason was active as The Red Thread/Mists and Mast (2003-2013)....
Nov 12, 2015 | AWMA Reviews, Reviews
New name and new adventure for Conor Devlin and Eimer ( [The] caseworker ), assisted by Jason Lakis (The Red Thread) in a project marked by fading dreamy electric, developed first as a Half Film and now under the name AWMA, to debut with four tracks of an eponymous EP.
The spatial components and nuanced ye reveal already in the works of [The] caseworker come in the context of the new formation to maturation in the sense of a thickening of sound grain, resulting in substantial abandonment of lightness and jangly pop appetite broadly related to it, in favor of vortices guitar by the slow and heavy, which are equivalent in the dark timbre of interpretations.
Decidedly marked by a grim and psychedelic desert, the seventeen minutes Ep open up horizons so a reboot to sound spaces infinite, in a colorful synthesis of atmospheric rock.
Nov 12, 2015 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
“Bavarian based sound designer and electronic artist Markus Mehr carries on here his creative and productive collaboration with the now classic label Hidden Shoal Recordings. This time Markus invited a handful of artists to remix his latest recordings collected...
Nov 6, 2015 | Chloë March Review, Reviews
“Chloë March’s musical past covers a stint in the sophisticated melodrama of Cousteau as well as a background in drama and playwriting. Such skills and experiences have been put to excellent use on new album ‘Nights Bright Day’ where the attention to production...
Nov 6, 2015 | Erik Nilsson Reviews, Reviews
[Translated from the original French via Google Translate] “Structure why we always scrutinized with interest publications, Hidden Shoal Recordings is attentive to his local scene (Australian, so) as foreign, able productions in particular identify on netlabels...
Nov 6, 2015 | Medard Fischer Reviews, Reviews
[Translated from the original French via Google Translate] “Developing electronic projects under a pseudonym and keep its own name neoclassical proposals: the schema is known and other musicians have been able to do so. It is the turn of Medard Fischer to do...