Hidden Shoal News
Colour Kane at Flandrika Festival, Italy
Dream-poppers extraordinaire Colour Kane are playing the Flandrika Festival in Milan, Italy, which runs through to Sunday, July 12th. Colour Kane are performing on the Saturday evening at 6pm, in what promises to be a superb show. They’ll be playing songs from their widely lauded album A Taste Of, but most excitingly, they’re also premiering new songs from their forthcoming album, due out on Hidden Shoal later in the year.
Colour Kane Seaside Dream Colour Kane – Seaside Dream
Apricot Rail 78's In-Store and Republic Gig – Last Chance!
Your last chance to see Apricot Rail for a while will be at 78 Records in Perth this Saturday at 2pm (the 11th, July) as they fill the store with their sonic goodness. You can also catch the band playing with Melbourne’s awesome This Is Your Captain Speaking the night before at the Republic in Perth. The band won’t be playing in Perth again for at least another 6 months so don’t miss out as they are stunning live to say the least.
If you haven’t yet secured yourself a copy of their debut masterpiece then head to the Hidden Shoal Store for all CD and digital distribution info.
Apricot Rail Featured in Music Network
Apricot Rail have been featured in the prestigious Australian music industry trade magazine The Music Network. Labelled as ‘One to watch’ by RTRfm Music Director Dave Cutbush, the band have recently played the sold-out launch of their self-titled debut album, received glowing press in print and on the web, and been a featured radio and record store release. And the album only came out three days ago!
If you haven’t already sampled the magic, the album is available to stream at the HSR Store, where it can be purchased in CD and mp3 format.
Apricot Rail If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them Apricot Rail – If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them
Apricot Rail a Release of the Week at Red Eye Records
Apricot Rail’s stunning self-titled debut album is one of the releases of the week at Red Eye Records, Sydney, alongside Wilco, David Bowie, Dinosaur Jr and Tortoise – and rightly so! To sample this album’s charms, visit the HSR Store to stream the songs in full, where it is available for purchase in CD and mp3 format.
Apricot Rail Pouring Milk Out The Window Apricot Rail – Pouring Milk Out The Window
Tarcutta Live
This Monday, July 6th, Tarcutta are playing live at The Old Bar on Johnston St, Fitzroy in Melbourne, with Icicle Melts and Hoof & Antler. Tarcutta are a live force to be reckoned with, and will be playing a stack of awesome tunes from their self-titled debut album.
Tarcutta is available in mp3 format from the HSR Store, where the album can be streamed in full, and is launched on CD at the East Brunswick Club on Thursday July 23rd.
Tarcutta Liberace Fibonacci Tarcutta – Liberace Fibonacci
Apricot Rail's Debut Album Released
Hidden Shoal Recordings are proud to announce the release of the debut self-titled album by Perth-based multi-instrumental pop quintet Apricot Rail.
Apricot Rail produce some of the most discretely charming, lush instrumental pop music you’re likely to hear all year. Delicate, bell-like arpeggiated guitars weave around snaking clarinet and flute, while the beautifully held back yet sanguine rhythm section drives the whole thing into a blurred, sun-soaked horizon.
Their debut album features the wonderfully received single ‘Pouring Milk Out The Window’, an anthem without ever having to be anthemic, a melancholic reverie that never resorts to the emotional ease of sadness. ‘If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them’, which featured on the 2009 Spunk Singles Club compilation album, is another chiming standout. And gorgeous closing track ‘Halfway House’ weaves in bubbling electronics as the band lead the listener through glowing landscapes and light-drenched vistas.
“this shyly retiring gem is predisposed to a seductive spectral / ethereal head bowed beauty much reminiscent of the Grails in more tender moments.” – Losing Today on ‘Pouring Milk Out The Window’
Apricot Rail’s self-titled debut hits the streets on the 4th of July, released through Hidden Shoal Recordings. The album is distributed in Australia through Hidden Shoal Distribution and internationally via n5Mailorder. The album is also be available digitally through the Hidden Shoal Store and all good third-party digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon etc). Check the Hidden Shoal Store for all availability info. The album will be launched at Mojos Bar in Fremantle on the night of the release in what promises to be one of the gigs of the year as Apricot Rail share the stage with local legends Pond who’ll be launching their new album on the same night.
Preview the album in full here and read a full press release here.
Apricot Rail – Trout Fishing In Australia Apricot Rail – Trout Fishing In Australia
Jumpel and The Caribbean Reviewed on Textura
Jumpel’s wonderful new album Deuxieme Bureau and The Caribbean’s remix EP Scott Solter Re-Populates The Caribbean have both received glowing reviews in the latest edition of the excellent Textura site. Visit Textura to read the reviews in full alongside reviews all of the finest new releases, and visit the artists’ reviews sections to read excerpts.
Both releases can be streamed in full at the HSR Store, and are available for purchase in CD and mp3 format.
Jumpel Quicken Belts Jumpel – Quicken Belts
Apricot Rail Album Launch
Only one sleep to go for lucky Perth folk as Apricot Rail launch their debut album at Mojos Bar in Fremantle tomorrow night (the 4th of July)! Also launching a CD this night are the wondrously psychedelic Pond. Supporting on this night of controlled and chaotic musical explosion are These Shipwrecks and Apricot Rail’s awesome label mates Fall Electric. CDs will be available on the night and entry is $15. This night will sell out so get down not too long after 8pm.
Expect full news tomorrow of the album release and availability info. This album is sublime – we’re jealous for those of you who are only just going to hear it for the first time!
Apricot Rail – Halfway House Apricot Rail – Halfway House
Tangled Star's Craig Hallsworth In-Store Performance at 78 Records
In support of Tangled Star‘s recently released That Time EP through Hidden Shoal the band’s frontman Craig Hallsworth will be performing in-store at 78 Records (awesome Perth music store for you non perth folk) this Saturday at 1pm. Be sure to head down and soak in the man that Dave Cutbush has called “one of the most underrated West Australian songwriters of all time.”.
That Time is Tangled Star’s third EP through Hidden Shoal and features the stunning single ‘seabirdtown’. The single has received lots of radio and press love and is indicative of That Time’s strengths as a louder, more flowing version of the melodic, evocative spaces of Tangled Star’s twilight pop songs.
“…blessed with an acute ability to have you all at once marvelling aglow in subdued awe at the spectacle of their delicately calibrated caress like airy drift pop while simultaneously drawing you low amid the affecting undertow of bruised hurt.” – Losing Today
Tangled Star features the inimitable talents of Perth musical luminaries Craig Hallsworth (The Slow Beings, Outstation, Bamboos), Lorne Clements (The Slow Beings, A Minor Ache, Bing, Chimpy) and Jim Butterworth (Outstation).
The EP is available digitally through all good digital stores including the Hidden Shoal store and on CD through n5Mailorder and all good Perth music stores.
Tangled Star – seabirdtown Tangled Star – seabirdtown
Hidden Shoal Announces Down Review Signing
Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the signing of electronica duo Down Review to its roster of artists.
Acclaimed electronic producers Medard Fischer (Arc Lab) and Tim Arndt (Near The Parenthesis) have never been in the same room nor even spoken. But from their online musical collaboration comes Down Review, melding their unique sensibilities to create a delicious hybrid – warm, human electronica for alienating times.
Down Review’s initial collaboration was featured on Near the Parenthesis’ album Of Soft Construction (n5MD, 2007). Their work on the track ‘Sitting in a Room’ was clearly a departure from the typical NTP aesthetic, situating Medard’s drum-programming wizardry and signature basslines beneath Arndt’s more ethereal creations. The result was arguably the album’s stand-out track, which “rather anomalously adds bass-heavy funkiness to the sparkling flow” (Textura).
Down Review’s debut EP From Here, For Anyone is to be released by Hidden Shoal on 11th August, preceded by the single ‘Anything is Everything’ on 9th July.
Read a full press release here and listen to a sneak preview of the upcoming single ‘Anything is Everything’ on Down Review’s Myspace page.
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