Hidden Shoal News
'A Million Square Miles' Reviewed on Dwarf
Our West Australian Sampler ‘A Million Square Miles‘ gained the attention of ‘The Dwarf’ last week. Take a read of the full review here.
Mukaizake – ‘The Yeah Conditioner’ Mukaizake – ‘The Yeah Conditioner’
Elisa Luu’s 'Chromatic Sigh' makes Ondarock's 'Best Albums of 2009'
Elisa Luu’s ‘Chromatic Sigh‘ makes Ondarock‘s ‘Best Albums of 2009’! Read the full list here.
Elisu Luu – The Garden Elisu Luu – The Garden
Sleeping Me 'Cradlesongs' Makes Ondarock's 'Best Albums of 09' List
‘Cradlesongs‘ from our Sleeping Me has been featured on Ondarock‘s ‘Best Albums of 09’. The full list can be read here.
Sleeping Me – Legs Like Gravestones Sleeping Me – Legs Like Gravestones
Mukaizake 'Unknown Knowns' Reviewed
Mukaizake’s acclaimed sophomore release ‘Unknown Knowns‘ has been reviewed on The Dwarf. Put your feet up, and take a read here.
Mukaizake – My Friend Flicker Mukaizake – My Friend Flicker
My Majestic Star 'I Haven't Got It In Me' Reviewed
My Majestic Star ‘I Haven’t Got It In Me‘ has been reviewed on Music Musings and Miscellany. You can read the article here.
My Majestic Star – Crampling My Majestic Star – Crampling
More 'Tops Lists of 09' for HSR Releases
A few more feathers in our cap, and rounds of applause for our artists, having made more appearances in various ‘Top Lists of 09’. First off we have Elisa Luu – Chromatic Sigh, Wes Willenbring – Close, But Not Too Close and Sleeping Me – Cradlesongs all being featured in the illustrious ‘best albums of 2009‘ picked by the editor of Italy’s Ondarock. Followed by Phantom Channel’s ‘Top 50’ including our very own Sleeping Me – Cradlesongs, HC-B – Soundcheck for a Missing Movie (both making the top 10) and Stray Ghost – Each Paradise is a Lost Paradise making the top 50. The full list can be viewed here.
Elisa Luu – The Garden Elisa Luu – The Garden
Down Review "From Here, For Anyone" reviewed on Adequacy.net
Down Review’s latest release, From Here, For Anyone, has been reviewed on the brilliant review site Adequacy. Read the review here, or read an excerpt at the artists’ reviews section. This very awesome EP is available at the Hidden Shoal Store.
Down Review – Anything is Everything Down Review – Anything is Everything
City of Satellites on KUCI
City of Satellites stunning new album Machine is My Animal has just been added to rotation on the awesome KUCI in Orange County following on from My Majestic Star’s recent love up at the same station. Check out the lovely mini review here. Non OC folk can soak in the goodness via the stations live stream.
City of Satellites Machine is My Animal Official CD Release
Hidden Shoal Recordings have announced the official CD release of the debut album by Australian dream-pop duo City of Satellites.
On Machine Is My Animal, City of Satellites deliver on the exceptional promise of their debut EP The Spook – and then some. This pristine album synthesizes ’80s pop aesthetics with ’00s production values to create a truly monumental sound. From the Eastern-influenced synth lines of superb opener ‘BMX’ to the crystalline drift of closer ‘Sky Rider’, Machine Is My Animal carries the listener through a glistening science fiction future, as viewed from a wistful child’s window.
On single ‘Stranger Than Fiction’, swirling synth sounds, Thomas Diakomichalis’ propulsive drumming and Jarrod Manuel’s pure vocal tones glide beautifully. Its aching melodies to the fore, the song taking heartrending turns before dissolving into the ether. ‘Skeletons’ glides and weaves like a hovercar over the course of seven levitating minutes, before the epic title track stomps across a dystopian future like a Transformer with a conscience, its robot heart bleeding as its surveys the devastation it has wrought. This balance between cold synthesized tones and a warm emotional heart creates a delicious balance throughout.
“Australia’s new finest dream-pop duo ascend to orbit… City Of Satellites venture beyond the troposphere on their debut CD Machine Is My Animal. Hazy, ethereal vocals and magisterial synth soundscapes wrap the sensors like rich ice cream upon pressing play… Manuel’s Air-redolent, multitracked vocals are angelic for the lack of a better description… the album radiates glacial atmospherics not heard in this country since the halcyon days of otherworldly Tasmanians The Paradise Motel.” – Rave Magazine
Machine Is My Animal is available now through Hidden Shoal Recordings. The album is distributed in Australia through Hidden Shoal Distribution and in the US and Europe via n5Mailorder. The album is available digitally through the Hidden Shoal Store and all good third-party digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, LaLa etc).
Read a full press release here and stream the album in full as well as check all CD and digital availability here.
City of Satellites – BMX City of Satellites – BMX
Elisa Luu’s 'Chromatic Sigh' makes Music Musings and Miscellany 'Top 20 of 2009'
More from the backwaters of the year that was. Elisa Luu’s made the top 20 of 2009 of Music Musings and Miscellany, rubbing shoulders with some big names and even bigger albums of 2009. Take a peak at the full list at 2009 – Top Twenty Albums.
Elisa Luu’s stella debut release ‘Chromatic Sigh’ can be purchased from our store, take a listen below.
Elisa Luu – The Garden Elisa Luu – The Garden
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