Hidden Shoal News
Debut Sleeping Me Single Out Now, Free Download Available
Hidden Shoal Recordings has announced the release of the first track taken from American ambient guitarist Sleeping Me’s debut album Cradlesongs.
Cradlesongs is an homage to the bittersweet rise and fall of fortune, the discovery and evasiveness of identity and truth, the acceptance of distance and disappointment, and the poignancy of an ever-elusive yet omnipresent love. This is no more true than for the sublime melancholy that is ‘Legs Like Gravestone’, the first track to be lifted from the album. Elegant, hopeful and infused with a sad beauty, ‘Legs Like Gravestone’ plays out like an elegy to fallen greatness as much as a passage back to the amniotic haze – an eternal return.
Textural and meticulously composed, the emotive ambience of Sleeping Me is a quiet reminder of all the beauty and personal strife that is experienced in solitude. Tidal currents of delayed guitar carry the listener across an ocean of reverb, cast adrift beneath a brooding sky. Each track hands an elusive secret to the next, hinted at but never revealed.
‘Legs Like Gravestone’ is available for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store until the release of Cradlesongs on 26th May 2009. Download a full press release here.
Sleeping Me – Legs Like Gravestone Sleeping Me – Legs Like Gravestone
HC-B and My Majestic Star Now Available at 78 Records
Perth Hidden Shoal fans will be pleased to know they can now find more HSR releases at 78 Records. Just added were HC-B’s epic masterpiece Soundcheck for a Missing Movie (RTRFM‘s Out To Lunch feature album a few weeks back) as well as My Majestic Star’s gorgeous Too Late, The Day (also an RTRFM mainstay). Jumpel’s Deuxieme Bureau, Hotels Where Hearts Go Broke and Fall Electrics Measure and Step (all three have been RTRFM feature albums!) are also available at 78’s with more to come soon.
78 Records also do national mailorder so Australian fans living outside of Perth have no excuse for not soaking in the flow of awesome music coming out of these here headquarters!
HC-B – Black HC-B – Black
Hidden Shoal Prize on The 405
This week it’s online music/art/film magazine The 405‘s first birthday. Happy birthday The 405! As part of the celebrations they’re running competitions all week and prizes include $200 worth of download vouchers for the Hidden Shoal Store.
To be in the running head over to The 405 website check the details.
Hotels Album Reviewed on PopMatters
Hotels’ massively awesome Where Hearts Go Broke has just received a glowing review in PopMatters’ Short Takes section for April 22nd. Visit PopMatters to read the review in full, or visit Hotels’ reviews section for an excerpt.
Hotels Port Of Saints Hotels – Port Of Saints
My Majestic Star and Fall Electric at In The Pines
My Majestic Star and Fall Electric are playing at this Sunday’s In The Pines festival at Somerville Auditorium in Perth. It kicks off at 11.30am, with My Majestic Star hitting the stage at 1.30pm and Fall Electric on at 6.30pm. It’s gonna be awesome…
My Majestic Star and having a reason why My Majestic Star – and having a reason why
Hotels on KEXP's "Best Podcast Ever!"
Hotels’ ‘Kite Fight’, from their stunning album Where Hearts Go Broke, has been featured on KEXP’s “Best Podcast Ever!”, volume 143 of their Music That Matters series, alongside Grizzly Bear, Cursive and Akron/Family.
Hotels Kite Fight Hotels – Kite Fight
HC-B and Bury The Sound Available on CD from Linus Records, Japan
HC-B’s Soundcheck For A Missing Movie and Bury The Sound’s Autumn Magnets EP are now available on CD from Linus Records, Japan.
HC-B Dead Horse Walking HC-B – Dead Horse Walking
Jumpel Album Reviewed in Drum Media
Jumpel’s superb new album Deuxieme Bureau has just received a glowing review in the Perth street paper Drum Media. Visit Jumpel’s reviews section to read an excerpt.
Deuxieme Bureau is available in CD and mp3 format from the HSR Store.
Jumpel Dense Dust Jumpel – Dense Dust
Tarcutta Live
New Hidden Shoal signings Tarcutta are playing live in Melbourne this Thursday night, 23rd April at 303 Bar, Northcote as part of the latest in the Galactic Cabaret series of monthly musical events, also featuring JShwa & The Kinship and MC Tray & Maya. Tarcutta are a delicious live proposition, so if you’re in Melbourne, be sure to check them out. Doors open at 7.30pm.
Tangled Star's Our Man In Eden Hill CD Re-Issue
Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the CD re-issue of Our Man in Eden Hill by the Craig Hallsworth-led Australian outfit Tangled Star. The re-issue comes ahead of the release of the new Tangled Star EP, That Time, out on June 11th, with a single due in May.
Our Man in Eden Hill sees Tangled Star building on their brilliant debut outing through Hidden Shoal, It’s Now or Later. Musically the EP toys with the frayed edges of country, pop and indie, while in part infusing a sense of space and possibility familiar to fans of the classic Dark Side of the Moon. As with their debut EP, Our Man in Eden Hill’s surface often belies its musical and emotional interior. Through its gentle shifts and directed detours, the EP manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset.
“The rich, gentle roil of sound evidenced on Our Man in Eden Hill, the band’s third overall release, has the same surging, warmly anthemic sound of stellar forebears galore, each sonically different — the Triffids, Died Pretty, perhaps most inevitably the Go-Betweens — but which altogether seem to capture a sense and a style more than might be guessed, something detailed, mournful, and a little crushing even at its strongest; feedback and background flows of classic keyboards and steady drumming all interplaying behind lead singer Craig Hallsworth’s work. By putting it all together and adding their own touches — the suddenly thrilling funk/psych guitar shades on ‘The Skaters,’ for instance — Tangled Star help make a claim on something more than re-creation.” – Ned Raggett, All Music Guide.
Our Man in Eden Hill is now available on CD through Hidden Shoal’s distributor n5Mailorder. The album is also available through all good digital stores, including iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and the HSR Store. Check the Hidden Shoal Store for all distribution and availability details and read a full press release here.
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