Hidden Shoal News
Fall Electric in Sic Mag Best of 2008
Fall Electric’s Measure And Step has been ranked as one of the 20 best releases of 2008 by Sic Mag’s Michael Henaghan. Measure And Step is available on CD and mp3 from the HSR Store.
Fall Electric 3am Fall Electric – 3am
Colour Kane Reviewed on Blog Critics
Colour Kane’s wondrous album A Taste Of is continuing to attract rave reviews more than a year after its release, this time from the brilliant Blog Critics site, who devote a two-page review to deconstructing its delights. Visit BC to read the review in full, or visit Colour Kane’s bulging reviews section for an excerpt.
Colour Kane Seaside Dream Colour Kane – Seaside Dream
Slow Dancing Society in Headphone Commute's Best of 2008
Slow Dancing Society’s majestic Priest Lake Circa ’88 has made it into Headphone Commute’s astonishingly exhaustive best of 2008 list (see Tier 3: The Essentials of 2008 Top 40).
Slow Dancing Society This Lilac Life Slow Dancing Society – This Lilac Life
RL/VL Album Reviewed on Cyclic Defrost
RL/VL’s lo-fi ambient epic Chagrin has just received a glowing review on the superb Australian site Cyclic Defrost. Visit the site to read the review in full, or visit RL/VL’s reviews section for an excerpt.
RL/VL is featured on East-West Section, the new sampler album available for free download from the HSR Store.
RL/VL A Lake You Could Walk On RL/VL – A Lake You Could Walk On
Slow Dancing Society and City Of Satellites in Textura's Best of 2008
Slow Dancing Society’s latest album Priest Lake Circa ’88 has been ranked among the top 50 releases of 2008 by the always-excellent Textura site. Plus, Drew Sullivan has chosen City Of Satellites’ The Spook EP as his favourite release of 2008 in the new Textura artists’ picks special.
Both Slow Dancing Society and City Of Satellites feature on the new Hidden Shoal sampler album East-West Section, available for free download from the HSR Store.
Slow Dancing Society Glimmer And Gleam Slow Dancing Society – Glimmer And Gleam
Hidden Shoal Featured Label on Loop Space
Hidden Shoal Recordings is currently the featured label on Loop Space, which showcases the best of (mainly) Australian music and sound culture, visual arts and digital media. The site has evolved out of Loop Magazine into a contributors’ website, publishing articles and digital media from writers, artists and event managers on an ongoing basis (not issue by issue), and a sound and digital media exhibition space in a shop front gallery in Newcastle CBD. Look out for coverage of Hidden Shoal releases on Loop Space throughout 2009.
Hidden Shoal Recordings Announces Hotels Signing
Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the signing of Seattle-based impossibly catchy sci-fi pop band Hotels.
Hotels makes hook-heavy sci-fi soundtrack synth rock that goes for the jugular, both sonically and melodically. Picture the bastard children of Devo and Joy Division, pushed down the street in a stroller by Claude Debussy, tucked in at night by the Cocteau Twins, read bedtime stories by Kraftwerk, and baby-sat by your sister’s cooler older friends Stereolab and The Pixies, while they tore out the guts of old synths in the garage. The result is the most relentlessly paced, hauntingly melodic, damn catchy pop music you’ve never heard, each song an end credit for the weary traveller or the romantic dancer; a tune you can listen to just before you die.
“Hotels fuse elements of new wave, goth, and surf so seamlessly that genre tags will be the last thing on your mind when you hear their bittersweet, atmospheric pop songs” – Time Out New York
Hotels’ second album, Where Hearts Go Broke, was recorded in Seattle at Chromasound and Bear Creek, and is due for release on Hidden Shoal on Valentine’s Day 2009, preceded by a single on January 16th.
For a sneak preview check out Hotels’ Myspace page, and for more info read the full press release here.
East-West Section Featured on Rock Sellout
East-West Section, the new volume in the Hidden Shoal free sampler album series, which was launched at last week’s awesome Christmas Party, has just been featured on Rock Sellout:
“Shouldn’t more labels make this sort of effort? … times have changed and a new audience is patiently awaiting new sounds… if the music’s good, people will buy it. Hidden Shoal is giving you the opportunity to explore its roster and hopefully find something that makes you want to head to your local record store and purchase… and if you don’t, what are you out? Well done in my opinion.”
Iretsu 6 Bump Hillbilly Stomp Iretsu – 6 Bump Hillbilly Stomp
City Of Satellites EP Reviewed on Leonard's Lair
City Of Satellites’ stunning debut EP The Spook has just received a glowing review on the Leonard’s Lair music blog. Visit the Lair to read the review in full, along with lots of other great reviews of new music, or visit the City Of Satellites reviews page for an excerpt.
City Of Satellites The Spook City Of Satellites – The Spook
Fall Electric Available on CD from n5Mailorder
Fall Electric’s debut album Measure And Step is now available on CD from n5Mailorder, the distribution arm of excellent label n5MD. The album is also available on CD and mp3 from the HSR Store.
Fall Electric Faithless Friend Fall Electric – Faithless Friend
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