Hidden Shoal News
New HSR Store Specials on their way!
If you’ve yet to pick up the August Specials from the HSR Store, hurry because there’s only a few days left! Until September rolls around you can download Chris Mason’s Up Down Up, Enargeia’s UFO: Stryker Force and Wayne Harriss’s Aerospace for $5.99 each, and Tangled Star’s It’s Now Or Later EP for $3.99. And which releases will be featured at special prices in September? Find out next week…
My Majestic Star's Too Late, The Day Available at Planet
Good news for Perth folk who like to buy things with their hands. The stunning new My Majestic Star album Too Late, The Day is now available at Planet in Mt Lawley. The album is also available on CD as well as high quality digital format from the HSR Store and from all good digital stores.
In other My Majestic Star news Too Late, The Day is currently enjoying high rotation on RTRFM where it’s this week’s local feature album. More to come!
My Majestic Star – meaning less My Majestic Star – meaning less
Slow Dancing Society and My Majestic Star featured on Ambient Music Blog
New albums by Slow Dancing Society and My Majestic Star have just been featured on Ambient Music Blog, an excellent site featuring all the best new ambient music. Both albums are now available on CD and mp3 from the HSR Store.
Slow Dancing Society Sun Spots Slow Dancing Society – Sun Spots
New My Majestic Star Album Released
Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the sophomore album by Australian ambient-rock artist My Majestic Star. Expanding upon the emotionally-stirring instrumental palette of the critically praised debut album Ideas Are The Answer and the stunning follow-up EP Fining, Too Late, The Day immerses the listener in its warm, enveloping drones, woven guitars and shoegazing songcraft for 45 minutes of sonic wonder. While so many albums in this area deliberately evoke wide-open vistas and apocalyptic atmospheres, Too Late, The Day is more of an exercise in intimacy and engagement.
“My Majestic Star’s songs reach for the sky like all the best post-rock but you never get the sense he’s trying to blow your face off… Mason steers well clear of obvious influences. He manages to make music from relative isolation that like a lot of absolutely solo work tends towards the quiet and wounded… Ideas Are the Answer is optimistic from the title on down; this a record that respects and honors our melancholy without ever falling for the fallacy that it’s a permanent state of affairs” – Stylus Magazine on Ideas Are The Answer
Too Late, The Day is available now on CD and in digital format. Visit the HSR Store for all availability information.
My Majestic Star – defects in sunsets My Majestic Star – defects in sunsets
New My Majestic Star This Weeks Feature Album on RTRFM
The soon to be released latest slice of sonic gorgeousness from My Majestic Star has been chosen as this weeks local feature album on Perth’s awesome RTRFM. Tune in to the airwaves or catch the stream today and be one of the first to hear tracks from the album which sees official release tomorrow (Tuesday, 26th August). The album will be played all week across the station and if that wasn’t enough local listeners can also win copies of the album. RTRFM is busily gearing up for it’s annual fundraiser Radiothon which starts up this Friday. More on that from us later in the week.
In the meantime if you’re quick and you haven’t had the pleasure already you can still download the brilliant new My Majestic Star single for free – available until the album release tomorrow. You have no excuse.
My Majestic Star – and having a reason why My Majestic Star – and having a reason why
Slow Dancing Society reviewed on Angry Ape and Delusions of Adequacy
Slow Dancing Society’s stunning new album Priest Lake Circa ’88 has just received glowing reviews on Angry Ape and Delusions of Adequacy. Visit the sites to read the reviews in full, or pop along to Slow Dancing Society’s reviews section for lovingly edited excerpts. The album is available on CD or mp3 from the HSR Store.
Slow Dancing Society – A Warm Glow Slow Dancing Society – A Warm Glow
Hidden Shoal Featured at Better Than The Van
Hidden Shoal Recordings is currently being featured as a “Label You Should Know About” at the very excellent Better Than The Van Site. For those of you not in the know, Better Than The Van is a community site that hooks touring bands up with fans, music lovers and general good folk who offer free accommodation. Very cool eh?
Head over to the site to check it out and while you’re there you can stream tracks from the likes of Ghost In The Water, My Majestic Star, Iretsu, The Slow Beings and Monocle.
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Hidden Shoal artists on WRSU FM
Tune into WRSU FM, Rutgers Radio, to hear tracks from recent Hidden Shoal releases Sankt Otten’s Wunden Gibt Es Immer Wieder and Ghost In The Water’s Tooth. If you live in New Jersey, spin your dial to 88.7 FM, or if you live elsewhere, stream the station via the WRSU website. Either way, you’re guaranteed to enjoy some excellent programming, with more Hidden Shoal releases to be featured in the future.
Fall Electric LIVE!
New Hidden Shoal signing Fall Electric are playing a series of gigs in and around Perth over the next few weeks in advance of the release of their first single, ‘Faithless Friend’, taken from their forthcoming debut album Measure and Step:
Saturday August 16 @ The Horror Shop w/ Sons of Rico
Friday August 22 @ Mojos Bar w/ James Cruikshank (The Cruel Sea)
Sunday August 24 @ The Hydey w/ James Cruikshank (The Cruel Sea)
Saturday September 6 @ The Rosemount w/ Tame Impala
As all that have seen them know, Fall Electric are a stunning live band, so be sure to check out these shows before the band go supernova. You have been warned!
Slow Dancing Society in Tonevendor Top 10
Slow Dancing Society’s first two albums, The Sound Of Lights When Dim and The Slow And Steady Winter, are currently in Tonevendor‘s top 10 bestselling CDs. Sankt Otten’s two albums, Monocle’s Outer Sunset and Ghost In The Water’s Tooth are also available on CD from Tonevendor, and on CD and mp3 from the HSR Store.
Hidden Shoal MixTape
