Jan 15, 2015 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
“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 | Chloë March Review, Reviews
“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 | Brother Earth Reviews, Reviews
“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...
Jan 15, 2015 | Elisa Luu Reviews, Reviews
“A welcome return last year for two of Hidden Shoal’s family of stalwart and brilliantly individual electronic artists. Rome native Elisa Luu produced another delirious mix of found sounds and ambient haze with a sprinkling of space dust on her appropriately...
Dec 18, 2014 | DrAlienSmith Reviews, Reviews
“Alan “DrAlien” Smith has worked for over fifteen years behind the mixing and mastering desks of his Bergerk! Studio in Perth, Australia, cooperating with many bands in the field of post rock, doom, sludge and shoegaze. This time he performs everything in first...
Dec 17, 2014 | Elisa Luu Reviews, Reviews
“Last moonth we checked out Elisa Luu’s single, “Shebeen”, and here’s the rest of the album. A mini-album, that is, as the 6 tracks clocks in at (less than) 35 minutes. Which is a perfect length, I believe. The music of Luu floats on so...