Hidden Shoal News
My Majestic Star "I Haven't Got it in Me" a Leonard's Lair Best Album of 2009
My Majestic Star’s third album, I Haven’t Got It In Me, has been included in Leonard’s Lair’s Best Albums of 2009. Hidden Shoal’s own Hotels and Mukaizake also made the cut! There is also a great review of I Haven’t Got It In Me on the Lair- check it out in full here, or read an excerpt on the artists’ reviews section. This brilliant release is available at the Hidden Shoal Store on CD and digital formats.
My Majestic Star – A City Lost My Majestic Star – A City Lost
Down Review "From Here For Anyone" an Igloo Magazine Top 7
Down Review’s EP, From Here, For Anyone, has made Igloo Magazine’s Top Seven EPs of 2009! All the tracks on the Top 2009 lists will be featured on the radio show Digital Nimbus on KUCI. For more Down Review check out DJ Steve Brown’s After Hours Reunion Show.
Down Review – From Here, For Anyone Down Review – From Here, For Anyone
Hotels' 'Leilani' Remix – Free Download!
Ahead of the release of the 2nd single from Hotels’ critically acclaimed 2008 album Where Hearts Go Broke comes an amazing remix of ‘Leilani’ by original Hotels’ keyboardist Rich Spitzer. Spitzer, who works under the name Nite Club, has produced a deliciously hyperactive and ridiculously addictive dance floor deconstruct of the sweet and swinging pop that is (or was!) ‘Leilani’. Just when you think you’ve hit the peak of this energetic remix Spitzer throws the rest of the kitchen sink at it and cranks it up several notches. It is supremely difficult not to hit the replay button just to feel that hit of dance floor adrenaline again.
The track can be download for free from Nite Clubs Bandcamp site. Also be sure to check out the original on Hotels’ Where Hearts Go Broke – preview and buy here.
Hidden Shoal will be releasing the second single to be lifted from Where Hearts Go Broke, ‘The Heart That Hears Like A Bat’, in late February. The track will be accompanied by a number of remixes including Nite Club’s ‘Leilani’ remix. More news on this soon!
Machine is My Animal Available for Pre-Order
For those who want to secure a copy of City of Satellites gorgeous debut album before it’s official cd release next week – you can! Fans can head to n5Mailorder to pre-order a copy of Machine is My Animal. You can of course also grab a copy of the album now in digital format from the Hidden Shoal Store and all other good online stores such as iTunes, eMusic and Lala.
Stream the album here and hear why it made a reviewer at the wonderful Rave Magazine say things like,
“…magisterial synth soundscapes wrap the sensors like rich ice cream upon pressing play.”
City of Satellites – Control City of Satellites – Control
RL/VL's Chagrin in Dan Weiss Top 10 of 2009
You’ll have to excuse some lagging posts from all the press we got in December (reviews, best of 2009’s etc) – we’re slowly getting to it all. One such is the inclusion of RL/VL’s Chagrin in Dan Weiss’s (writer for Resident Advisor, Stylus, Pitchfork and more) top 10 of 2009 list. Check out the list at Dan’s blog and read his review of Chagrin at Resident Advisor.
Preview and buy this utterly sublime long player at the Hidden Shoal Store.
RL/VL – Kweens RL/VL – Kweens
Tarcutta Live and Justin Buckley Article in DOA
For all Melbourne Tarcutta fans (and all those soon to be) make sure you head down to the Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda this Friday night (15th Jan) at 9:30pm and catch the band in full flight. You can expect some new songs from the boys which from all reports are sounding amazing.
More news on the Tarcutta front – the wonderful US music zine DOA is currently running an article by Justin Buckley (Tarcutta’s guitarist) as part of their “Artists on Artists”series. Check out Justin’s piece here and while you’re there have a look at some of the previous articles – lots of wonderful reading.
Tarcutta – Mount Bartle Frere Tarcutta – Mount Bartle Frere
Hidden Shoal Artists in the US College Charts
Hidden Shoal artists continue to impress upon the US college radio circuit. 2010 kicks off nicely with Sleeping Me’s sublime Cradlesongs re-entering the KZSU’s (Stanford) top ten experimental/classical charts at number 5 and HC-B’s monstrous Soundcheck for a Missing Movie sitting at number 19 on Portland’s KBOO. Recent releases by Mukaizake and My Majestic Star as well as Hidden Shoal’s Western Australian music compilation A Million Square Miles have also been getting lots of airtime on a growing number of key US stations – hopefully we see some charting for these soon.
HC-B – Black HC-B – Black
Mukaizake Featured on Triples J's Home and Hosed Blog
The mighty Mukaizake have been featured on Triple J’s Home and Hosed blog and given the good word by the wonderful Dom Alessio. You can check out the feature here.
If you have not yet been swayed by this bands magic then you have two chances to redeem yourselves. First is to go to the HSR Store and stream (then buy!) their latest mini album Unknown Knowns and the the second (for Perth folk only) is to head to their headline gig this Saturday night (Jan 16th) – details here. The band rarely plays live nowadays due to their bi-coastalness (yes its a word….sorta) so this is not to be missed.
Mukaizake – Slack Bees Mukaizake – Slack Bees
Boxharp EP Release Date Change
Just a quick note to say that the upcoming Boxharp EP Loam Arcane has had a release date change and will now be coming out sometime in February (date to be shortly advised). Boxharp vocalist Wendy Allen had an unfortunate throat malady just before some of the final vocal sessions last year. Everything is back on track now and Wendy’s delicious voice is back to its best. We’ll anounce the new official release date soon.
In the meantime you can freely enjoy the wonderland of sound and song that is the the first single taken from the EP ‘Rainbirds‘. Grab it for free from the Hidden Shoal Store now.
Hotels "Where Hearts Go Broke" cleans up in the best-of 2009 lists!
Hotels have made many a best-of list for 2009. They scooped first place on The Tacoma News Tribune, and were included in best-of lists on In Search of the Lost Chord, Theft Liable to Prosecution, The Late Risers Club and Sic Magazine!
Hotels – Hydra Hotels – Hydra
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