Hidden Shoal News
HC-B in WFDU Top 30
HC-B‘s album Soundcheck For A Missing Movie is getting some US college radio action, coming in at #26 on the WFDU Top 30! Get your paws on this delicious album at the Hidden Shoal Store.
HC-B – Missing Movie HC-B – Missing Movie
Down Review EP reviewed on Cyclic Defrost
The Down Review release From Here For Anyone has been reviewed in the Australian magazine Cyclic Defrost. Read those lovin’ lines here, and visit the Hidden Shoal Store to buy this excellent EP.
Down Review – Anything is Everything Down Review – Anything is Everything
Mukaizake Sign to Hidden Shoal Recordings
Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the signing of Australian indie math rock marvels Mukaizake to its roster of artists.
Featuring members of legendary Perth bands Umpire, Adam Said Galore and Blue Tile Lounge, Mukaizake combine intricate, dynamic guitar parts, borrowing heavily from math-inspired indie rock, with highly accessible song structures and strong melodic vocals. Their songs feature organic, reactive playing, with a depth and subtlety that is revealed on repeat listens. After a lengthy absence from the Australian music scene, Mukaizake are set to release Unknown Knowns, the stunning follow up to their highly acclaimed 2003 album Mapping the Static.
Unknown Knowns will see its official Australia release on December 11th, 2009 preceded by its US and worldwide digital release on November 17th. The first single to be taken from the album, ‘The Yeah Conditioner’, will be released on October 6th.
Read a full press release here.
New My Majestic Star Single Released
Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the new single ‘Crampling’ by Perth-based post-shoegaze outfit My Majestic Star.
‘Crampling’ is a prime example of My Majestic Star’s ability to merge weightless daydream pop with droning shoegaze. The track’s melodies swim in uppers and downers, all the while building and brooding. For the first time the track also features the stunning vocals of the band’s cellist, Miriam Braun, alongside Chris Mason’s distinctively dreamy tones. The single is a wonderful taster for the forthcoming third My Majestic Star album I Haven’t Got It In Me.
‘Crampling’ is available now for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store until the release of I Haven’t Got It In Me on November 27th, 2009. The single will be launched at the Velvet Lounge in Perth, Western Australia on the 18th of September, with support from Turn, Craig McElhinney and Target Archery (Ambrose and Mayuka from Apricot Rail).
Read a full press release here.
My Majestic Star – Crampling My Majestic Star – Crampling
Linus Records (Japan) Now Stocks HSR Releases
The awesome Japanese music store Linus Records now stocks the HC-B, Apricot Rail and Tarcutta albums and the Down Review and Bury The Sound EPs! Check out all these releases at Linus Records, or at the Hidden Shoal Store.
HC-B Black HC-B – Black
HSR in A Fine Line – 'The Future of Independent Music Labels'
Tasmanian music magazine A Fine Line has made Hidden Shoal a subject of its feature article ‘The Future of Independent Music Labels’. Bright future indeed! Read the article here.
Check out Hidden Shoal’s luscious offerings at the Hidden Shoal Store.
Hotels and Tangled Star on Radio Citta Aperta
Hidden Shoal releases are still getting loads of airplay on Italian station Radio Citta Aperta. Hotels’ Where Hearts Go Broke has been receiving some serious play-time, as well as Tangled Star’s new EP. If you live in Rome or Lazio tune in to 88.9 FM, otherwise stream the station online at the Radio Citta Aperta website or catch the show on MySpace. You can catch Gianluca Polverari’s show on Tuesday nights, 9-11pm.
Hotels – Leilani Hotels – Leilani
Tangled Star – Pictures of Lefty Tangled Star – Pictures of Lefty
Hotels photo in Spin Magazine
A photo of Hotels performing at Bumbershoot made its way into Spin magazine, among the best pics from the festival. Check it out here.
Hotels Hydra Hotels – Hydra
Elisa Luu's Chromatic Sigh Pre-Released
Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the digital pre-release of the debut album by Rome-based composer Elisa Luu.
Though digitally crafted, Chromatic Sigh is warm, inviting and uniquely human, betraying a vulnerability and sensitivity that is rarely found in the male-dominated sphere of electronica. With its sighing, lilting qualities, Elisa Luu’s music reawakens a sense of childlike wonder and adventure with every sprawling and sparkling track. The album deftly moves in and out of the realms of ambient and electronica, creating a blissful, liminal realm where everything is rendered transformative.
The opening title track is a shifting kaleidoscope of drones, enveloping the listener with its gorgeous metallic haze. Single ‘The Garden’ creates a humid atmosphere of synths and glistening textures, carried aloft by crisp, skittering drum breaks. Melancholic centerpiece ‘Slow Bass Flute’ – which also appeared on debut EP Floating Sounds (Phantom Channel) – is so emotionally weighty that one can’t help but feel humbled in its presence. And album closer ‘Warn Plate’ is the gentle return to terra firma, leaving the listener conscious of having visited somewhere unique, complex and beautiful.
“gorgeous stuff, timid and trembling, frail and fragile – the ice sculptured craftsmanship eking out a beauti-fied solitary elegance much recalling the early career work of Mum… most alluring and lulling stuff” – Losing Today on single ‘The Garden’
Chromatic Sigh is now available in digital format from the Hidden Shoal Store and all good third-party digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, LaLa, etc). As with all new Hidden Shoal releases the album will also be available in lossless formats (FLAC and Apple Lossless). Chromatic Sigh will see its official CD release on the 29th of September and is available now for pre-order through n5Mailorder. Check the Hidden Shoal Store for all availability info.
Elisa Luu – Slowbeat Elisa Luu – Slowbeat
My Majestic Star Single Launch
My Majestic Star are launching their new single ‘Crampling’ from the forthcoming album I Haven’t Got It In Me on Friday 18 September at the Velvet Lounge, with special guests Turn, Ambrose Nock (Apricot Rail) and Craig McElhinney. Doors open 8pm, entry $6.
‘Crampling’ will be available for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store on September 15.
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