Hidden Shoal News
Hotels Reviews
Hotels’ extraordinary new album Where Hearts Go Broke has received a clutch of excellent reviews since its release on Valentine’s Day and sold-out Seattle launch party. Reviews have been posted on The Yellow Stereo, Rave, I Am The Crime, and Seattle Show Gal, which also includes video footage of ‘The Maudlin’ and ‘Near The Desert, Near The City’. Visit the respective sites to read the reviews in full, or visit Hotels’ reviews section for excerpts.
‘The Maudlin’ is also Song Of The Day on WMBR’s The Late Risers’ Club, and The Underground Of Happiness DJ Conor O’Toole has described the album as “one of my album
What are you waiting for? Where Hearts Go Broke is available on CD and mp3 from the HSR Store. Go!
Hotels The Maudlin Hotels – The Maudlin
Hidden Shoal Releases New Remix Single by The Caribbean
Hidden Shoal Recordings has announced the release of the single ‘Do You Believe in Dinosaurs? (Scott Solter Remix)’ by American folk-pop deconstructionists The Caribbean. The track comes from the forthcoming release Scott Solter Re-Populates The Caribbean. The band has teamed up with engineer, producer, mixologist Scott Solter (Spoon, Okkervil River, The Mountain Goats) to bring you an EP of dizzying curve balls that split the difference between glistening songcraft and complete re-construction. Solter’s chop-shop version of ‘Do You Believe In Dinosaurs?’ is at once stripped down and muscular – as if emanating from a ghettoblaster that slices and dices. The vocals from the original are all but gone, the rhythm section made guttural and immediate, and the modulating synths have been harassed and brought to the fore. Through his inimitable approach, Solter has managed to amplify and distill the original.
The idea of sending five tracks from The Caribbean’s 2007 Hometapes record Populations to Scott Solter to deconstruct, warp, and otherwise obliterate, was neither intimidating nor foreign to the band. While Solter was busy toiling with 2” tape, textiles, liquid polymers, and computers in his North Carolina sound lab, the group became familiar with Hidden Shoal and it became clear to both group and label that the Caribbean/Solter EP was, conceptually, just the kind of project that might be perfect for the label to release.
“You’re forced to occupy their barren pop architecture…. You don’t understand it, but, though you might not admit it, you do hope it will understand you. Or at least not destroy you…” – Pitchfork
‘Do You Believe In Dinosaurs? (Scott Solter Remix)’ is available for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store until the release of Scott Solter Re-Populates The Caribbean on 2nd April 2009. Read a full press release here.
The Caribbean – Do You Believe in Dinosaurs? (Scott Solter Remix) The Caribbean – Do You Believe in Dinosaurs? (Scott Solter Remix)
City of Satellites and Hotels in CMJ Top 30 Charts
Two recent and completely awesome Hidden Shoal releases have been charting in the top 30 CMJ US college radio charts over the last few weeks. City of Satellites’ EP The Spook charted at number 28 on last weeks WRSU chart and Hotel’ Where Hearts Go Broke charted at number 29 on this weeks KCWU chart.
City Of Satellites EP Reviewed on Cyclic Defrost
City Of Satellites’ beautiful debut EP The Spook has just been reviewed on the essential Cyclic Defrost site. Visit Cyclic Defrost to read the review in full, or visit City of Satellite’s reviews section for an excerpt.
The band is currently working on their debut album, due for release later this year.
City Of Satellites Sleeping Disgrace City Of Satellites – Sleeping Disgrace
Slow Dancing Society Album Reviewed on Sonic Immersion
Slow Dancing Society’s acclaimed third album Priest Lake Circa ’88 has just been reviewed on Dutch music site Sonic Immersion. Visit Sonic Immersion to read the review in full, or visit SDS’s bulging reviews section for an excerpt.
Priest Lake… and previous albums The Slow And Steady Winter and The Sound Of Lights When Dim are all available on CD and mp3 from the HSR Store.
Slow Dancing Society A Warm Glow Slow Dancing Society – A Warm Glow
RL/VL Album Reviewed on Resident Advisor
RL/VL’s lo-fi ambient epic Chagrin has received a glowing review on the excellent Resident Advisor site. Visit Resident Advisor to read the review in full, or check out RL/VL’s reviews section for an excerpt.
Chagrin is available on CD and mp3 from the HSR Store.
RL/VL Kweens RL/VL – Kweens
Fall Electric Album Reviewed on Ondarock
Fall Electric’s wonderful debut album Measure And Step has just been reviewed on Ondarock, which has been rightly dubbed ‘the Italian Pitchfork’. If you speak Italian (!), visit Ondarock to read the review in full, or visit Fall Electric’s reviews section for a translated excerpt.
Measure And Step is available in CD and mp3 format from the HSR Store.
Fall Electric 3am Fall Electric – 3am
Hotels in John Richards' Top Five
Hotels‘ Where Hearts Go Broke continues it magnetic attraction to excellent press by being chosen as one of John Richards’ Top Five Seattle releases in the latest edition of Seattle Sound Magazine. The KEXP DJ’s FIVE column highlights the best of the best indie music coming out of Seattle and in the past has included releases from bands such as Fleet Foxes, The Duchess and the Duke and James Pants.
If you’re in or around Seattle pick up a copy of the mag and if you’re not then just pick up a copy of the album and hear why this slab of spectral pop wonder was born to live in top five’s everywhere.
Hotels – Kite Fight Hotels – Kite Fight
Jumpel Album Reviewed on Cyclic Defrost and [sic]
Jumpel’s stunning new album Deuxieme Bureau has received glowing reviews on Cyclic Defrost and [sic]. Visit the respective sites to read the reviews in full, or visit Jumpel’s reviews section for an excerpt.
Deuxieme Bureau and Jumpel’s acclaimed debut Samuel Jason Lies On The Beach are both available from the HSR Store.
Jumpel Quicken Belts Jumpel – Quicken Belts
HC-B Single Reviewed on [sic]
HC-B’s thunderous new single ‘Hot Afternoon In The Bulls’ Square’ has been reviewed on the excellent [sic] magazine. Visit [sic] to read the review in full, or visit HC-B’s reviews section to read an excerpt.
‘Hot Afternoon In The Bulls’ Square’ is available for free download from the HSR Store until the release of HC-B’s new album Soundcheck For A Missing Movie on 3rd March.
HC-B Hot Afternoon In The Bulls’ Square HC-B – Hot Afternoon In The Bulls’ Square
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