Hidden Shoal News
New Tangled Star songs in the works!
Tangled Star‘s Craig Hallsworth has just revealed some exciting news about the band’s next step following their glorious release It’s Now or Later:
“Tangled Star are currently working on new material for an EP / mini album to be recorded in the spring of 2007. This involves the usual set-up of myself on guitar and vocals, James Butterworth on bass, vocals and some drum machine programming, and Lorne Clements playing various keyboards, as well as (for the first time in T-Star) an actual drum kit. At this stage, we are looking at six new songs – ‘tosleepingpeople’, ‘The Skaters’, ‘Sentimental Warrior’, ‘Turn Me’, ‘Sunny Day Losers #12 & 35’, ‘The Waiter Is Deceased’ – no doubt our most focused, immediate and accessible work to date…”
Read more from Craig on their MySpace blog, and stay tuned for more details about this new release in the coming months.
Bury the Sound's "Autumn Magnets" EP now on iTunes
Bury the Sound’s majestic Autumn Magnets EP is now available on iTunes. So, if you want “instrumental shoegaze at its best” (Music Emissions), visit iTunes or pop along to the HSR Store.
New International Signings: Jumpel and Cheekbone
Hidden Shoal Recordings is delighted to announce two new international signings to its roster of artists: Jumpel (Germany) and Cheekbone (Japan).
Despite its obvious mastery of the dizzying possibilities of technology, Jumpel’s debut album Samuel Jason Lies On The Beach is a work of intense intimacy and humanity. The album serves as a testament to the power of careful distillation and minimalism, exuding an emotional complexity that belies its seemingly simple surface. Samuel Jason Lies On The Beach will be released on the 7th of August, 2007.
A drifting, organic space in which to lose yourself completely, Cheekbone’s masterful ambient electronica is guaranteed to appeal to anyone with an interest in the possibilities of synthesized sound. Luscious, disorientating and utterly enchanting, the Yesterday EP is essential listening. Yesterday will be released on the 21st of August, 2007.
The Hero Cycle on Electrical Language Podcast
Tracks from The Hero Cycle’s essential Lakes and Ponds EP have recently been played on podcast no. 80 of the excellent Electrical Language series of podcasts from the UK.
New Single by Chris Mason Released
The Australian digital music label, Hidden Shoal Recordings, today announced the release of the new Chris Mason single, ‘Fast and Furious‘.
An essential taster for the upcoming album Restless, Chris Mason’s new single ‘Fast and Furious’ is a heartbreaking thriller from the ground up: the insistent pulse of the drums, the visceral growl of the guitars, layered rolling hooks and Chris’s aching vocal. As Mason sings, “He’s coming back for us” the song’s wonderfully razored balancing act between hope and a dark sense of fatalistic urgency is exposed. This is newgazer pop with an edge. – Press Release Excerpt
For a limited time the single comes bundled with a bonus track taken from the upcoming Restless album. “Deer in the Headlights” plays out like a slow loss with all the dark melancholy of Mazzy Star and the loaded cavernous spaces of Bark Psychosis.
A full press release is available for download here.
Chris Mason – Fast and Furious Chris Mason – Fast and Furious
Autumn Magnets Officially Released
Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the official release of the Autumn Magnets EP by Melbourne ambient rock outfit Bury the Sound. The EP has already received critical praise during it’s short pre-release period.
25 minutes of cataclysmic instrumental work… Autumn Magnets is a glorious snapshot of the enormous potential of Bury the Sound… This is instrumental shoegaze at its best. – Music Emissions.
The EP is now available through the HSR Store, eMusic, Rhapsody, Sony Connect and will shortly be available through iTunes stores worldwide.
Bury the Sound – Gemini Unbound Bury the Sound – Gemini Unbound
Wes Willenbring and The Hero Cycle on the New Zealand Airwaves
If you’re lucky enough to live in the land of the long white cloud and cool enough to tune in to Radioactive (89FM) and Radio New Zealand (the Music Mix show) then you’ll have heard the spellbinding tones of two HSR greats Wes Willenbring and The Hero Cycle receiving lots of airplay. Any radio show that can play such wonderfully disparate music has this labels vote.
New Hero Cycle reviews
The multi-headed Vermont based indie-rock behemoth that is The Hero Cycle has been attracting more gushing praise. Two new reviews of the Lakes and Ponds EP and a live review are now featured for your reading pleasure.
Bury the Sound launch "Autumn Magnets" in Melbourne
If you live in or near Melbourne and fancy an intense, moving live show, Bury the Sound are launching their Autumn Magnets EP on Thursday 5 July. The band are playing at Pony, 68 Little Collins Street, with trip-hop duo Esbatu and post-rock/electronic DJ Cam Farrar. Doors open at 9pm and BTS hit the stage at 10.15.
Bury the Sound – Saratoga Bury the Sound – Saratoga
The Hero Cycle Review in The Big Takeover
Check out the great review of the The Hero Cycles Lakes and Ponds EP in respected New York based music magazine The Big Takeover. Here’s an excerpt from the review for those that can’t get hold of a copy of the mag then:
“Vermont’s futurist indie-rockers spin a web of busy arrangements and a cornucopia of textures — expansive vistas that stretch from one end of the sonic canvas to the other, threatening to careen off the edge, but slamming on the brakes just in time…Aficionados of spindly shoegazer combos of yore and the lofty delirium of Galaxie 500 and Versus will get the gist of this EP in a heartbeat.” – The Big Takeover
The Hero Cycle – You vs Them The Hero Cycle – You vs Them
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