Hidden Shoal News
Hidden Shoal Release New Free Label Sampler Album
Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the free label sampler album Limit of Maps.
Limit of Maps is the third volume in the label’s sampler album series, available for free download from the HSR Store. The album includes a wonderful cross-section of Hidden Shoal’s activity over the second half of 2007, and also features a number of as yet unreleased tracks from upcoming 2008 releases. Many of the tracks are taken from critically acclaimed albums and EPs, a number of which have ended up on best of 2007 lists.
The contributing artists on Limit of Maps include Sankt Otten, Slow Dancing Society, Iretsu, Bury the Sound, Beautiful Lunar Landscape, Chris Mason, Monocle, Tangled Star, Toby Richardson, Cheekbone, The Retail Sectors, Glassacre, and Jumpel.
The album is available now for free download from the HSR Store.
Tangled Star single Track of the Week on RTRfm
Tangled Star’s exquisite new single ‘tosleepingpeople’ has rightfully earned Track of the Week on the Out To Lunch show (weekdays 12-3pm) on Perth’s RTRfm. Tune in to 92.1FM or stream online to hear the Hidden Shoal goodness in full.
Slow Dancing Society on Echoes
Slow Dancing Society’s gorgeous new album The Slow and Steady Winter has been receiving airplay on the excellent Echoes program, which plays right across the US on various radio stations. Visit the Echoes website to find out where to hear the show, plus you can read host John Diliberto’s wonderful music recommendations.
Toby Richardson on Sydney's FBi Radio
Listen to the Local Fidelity show on Sunday nights, 7pm to 9pm, on Sydney’s FBi 94.5FM to hear Toby Richardson’s triumphant new single ‘Booragoon Lagoon’. It’s guaranteed to have you dancing around like a loon, so if you’re in the car please pull over. You have been warned…
New Tangled Star Single Released
The Australian music label Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the wonderful new single ‘tosleepingpeople’ by the Craig Hallsworth-led Australian outfit Tangled Star. The single is taken from the brilliant forthcoming EP due out in the first quarter of 2008, following the band’s wonderfully received first EP through Hidden Shoal Recordings, It’s Now or Later.
‘tosleepingpeople’ is a lilting pop classic and sees Tangled Star at their inimitable best. The song layers gorgeously crafted, country tinged melancholic pop with Hallsworth’s wonderfully wry lyrical playfulness. In true Tangled Star style, ‘tosleepingpeople’ exudes a gentle warmth offset by subtle yet masterful melodic shifts. Each repeat listen frays another thread of its exquisite tapestry, revealing new charms and subtle complexities. – Press Release Excerpt
‘tosleepingpeople’ is available now exclusively through the HSR Store.
Tangled Star – tosleepingpeople Tangled Star – tosleepingpeople
Slow Dancing Society in Ambient Music Guide's Top Ten for 2007
Ambient Music Guide has named Slow Dancing Society’s The Sound of Lights When Dim as one of the Top Ten Albums of 2007, describing it as “A sensual and melancholy downtempo creation from a gifted American composer… Not to be missed.” SDS’s second album, The Slow and Steady Winter, has also been recently released to critical acclaim.
Glassacre on Music Emissions and Electrical Language
Glassacre’s brilliant Slow Attack EP has just received a glowing review over at Music Emissions, and their stunning new single ‘September 16th’ has just featured on the latest Electrical Language podcast (no. 102). Rest assured that their eagerly awaited debut album Without Sleep will be released in the first half of 2008…
New Sankt Otten Album Released
Hidden Shoal Recordings have announced the release of the eagerly anticipated new album Wunden Gibt Es Immer Wieder by German cinematic pop outfit, Sankt Otten.
From the opening track of Wunden Gibt Es Immer Wieder Sankt Otten make their intentions known. Stephan Otten`s echoing rhodes piano falls over golden drones as Oliver Klemm drapes his elegant trademark guitar through the track like a neon waterfall. The album represents a marked progression from the bands earlier output. It draws upon the heart of their previous forays into dark melancholic trip hop yet discards the form. In doing so the band have managed to present a musical vision that is even more epic, cinematic, noirish and distinctly their own. – Press Release Excerpt
Wunden Gibt Es Immer Wieder is available now through all good digital music stores including iTunes, eMusic, Amazon as well as the labels own store. For all store links and to preview the album in full head over to the HSR Store.
Wunden Gibt Es Immer Wieder Sankt Otten – Wunden Gibt Es Immer Wieder
Bury the Sound live in Melbourne with All India Radio
On Sunday 9th December, Bury the Sound will be supporting the fantastic All India Radio at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. The band will be playing songs from their acclaimed Autumn Magnets EP, plus new material that will appear on their forthcoming album. Doors open at 7.30, $6 on the door.
Bury the Sound – Gemini Unbound Bury the Sound – Gemini Unbound
The Retail Sectors on Triple J and RTR FM
The addictive Retail Sectors single, ‘The First Step To End The Life‘, has been receiving airplay on the excellent Soundlab show on Triple J, and was last week’s Track of the Week on Monday’s Out to Lunch show on WA’s RTR FM. The track has also received a glowing review of the Norwegian e-zine Luna Kafe, who describe the track as “extremely catchy and joyful… cheerful, optimistic melancholia”. The Retail Sectors’ new mini-album Foregone Conclusion has just been released.
The Retail Sectors – Beauty of the Depression The Retail Sectors – Beauty of the Depression
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