Hidden Shoal News
New Single from Joe Sampson, Album Out Next Week!
Exciting times my friends as we not only have a brilliant new single from Denver’s Joe Sampson but we also get to announce that the new album it’s peeled from drops next week! ‘Wealth‘ is the opening cut from Sampson’s second release for Hidden Shoal Chansons de Parade, the follow up to his stunning 2016 EP Songs of Delay. Chansons de Parade will see release on the 1st of December.
‘Wealth’ is available as a free download via BandCamp and can be streamed via SoundCloud. Read more about Joe Sampson and check out Songs of Delay here.
Memorybell Interview & Live Performance on BFF.FM
Check out this wonderful re-streamable interview with Grant Outerbridge (aka Memorybell) on the BFF.FM radio show Sounds In The Dark. Along with some fantastic insights into his process and approach you’ll get to hear stunning live renditions of tracks from his sublime 2016 album Obsolete.
Kramies Interview in The Big Takeover!
Check out the latest edition of The Big Takover magazine (made out of actual paper!!) and you’ll find an interview with our very own Kramies nestled between the likes of Lush, Kid Congo Powers and Russian Circles! Dig a bit further and you’ll also find a beautiful review of Joe Sampson‘s recent EP Songs of Delay. Good times!
Sneak Peek of Kramies 2017 EP!
Kramies gives a sneak peek of his forthcoming 2017 EP!
Featured Track – perth ‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow’
With an acutely transcendent and atmospheric vibe, perth‘s ‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow’ is a lucid and expansive slice of wave-gaze pop. Pulsing, agitated rhythms offset the cosmic streaming of synths, voice and guitars, eventually morphing into a kind of motorik ambient that counterbalances propulsion with serenity. – Wagner Hertzog
Craig Hallsworth Featured at Insomnia Radio
Craig Hallsworth‘s latest single, ‘We’re Too Far Away (My Other Future, My Other Youth)’, is the current Daily Dose feature at Insomnia Radio! The track is lifted from Hallsworth sublime debut solo release What’s The Story With This Hole?.Craig Hallsworth “What’s The Story With This Hole?” Out Now!
We’re excited to announce the official release of Craig Hallsworth‘s brilliant new album What’s The Story With This Hole?. The album is available now as a limited edition CD and in digital format via BandCamp, iTunes, Spotify and all the other other usual suspects.
With over 30 years of songwriting experience under his belt, Craig Hallsworth makes What’s The Story With This Hole? feel effortless yet boundless. Recorded and produced with long-time collaborator Al Smith (DrAlienSmith, Bergerk Studios), the album represents the most musically developed and fully realised recording the pair have delivered to date. On the surface, these are perfectly composed and innately melodic pop/rock songs, with Hallsworth’s guitars alternately shimmering and snarling around his unmistakably keening vocals. The real magic, however, lies a little concealed; songs often end up somewhere very different from where they started, and Hallsworth’s often surreal lyrical excursions act in striking counterpoint to the music.
It’s this juxtaposition that makes What’s The Story With This Hole? so special – musically rich and familiar sounds taken into unrelated narrative territories. In Hallsworth’s own words, “To me, the mysterious undecidability in the words plays a crucial part in the overall experience of the songs, making them events of sense and sensation. It isn’t so much that I consider the lyrics to be poetry, but I think a sense of poetry would be useful in approaching these songs.”
Craig Hallsworth Intereviewed on RTRFM
Be sure to listen in to Drivetime on RTRFM this Thursday night at around 6pm to hear an interview with the inimitable Craig Hallsworth. Craig’s new album What’s The Story With This Hole? is the local feature all this week at RTR so be sure to tune in, dig it and win yourself a copy!New Apricot Rail Single and Video!
After a long hiatus, Perth’s premiere instrumental pop magicians Apricot Rail are back with a gorgeous new song and music video. As if written to celebrate the start of spring, ‘Scarecrow’ is the sound of empty fields bathed in the early morning sun, buzzing with insects, birds and liminal activity. The song embraces Apricot Rail’s unique sound, featuring syncopated glockenspiel, Casio, melodica, guitars, and even the guzheng (a Chinese stringed instrument), and their inimitable talent for weaving multiple melodies into a shimmering tapestry of songcraft. The track is accompanied by a sumptuous music video by Perth’s Chad Peacock (Peacock Visuals).
The track comes from the band’s forthcoming third album, tentatively titled Clock of the Long Now, due for release in April 2017. The track is available as a free download via Apricot Rail’s BandCamp.
Apricot Rail – Scarecrow from Hidden Shoal on Vimeo.
Todd Tobias “Gila Man” Out Now!
We’re excited to announce the release of Gila Man, the brilliant new album by American instrumental soundscaper Todd Tobias. The album is available now on CD via Tiny Room Records (Europe/UK/Australia) and via Todd Tobias (USA) and digital formats via BandCamp as well as the usual digital outlets. Read more on the album below and listen to further Todd Tobias releases here.
Each Todd Tobias solo album presents its own discrete, surreal world – and Gila Man is no exception. A wordless musical novella that merges a psychedelic Western with shadowy science fiction, Gila Man simultaneously evokes the wide-eyed wonder of discovery and the creeping dread of what horrors may lurk around the next corner. Featuring the stunning wordless vocals of English songwriter and fellow Hidden Shoal artist Chloë March, the album is at once beautiful and unsettling – and a wonderful distillation of the magical qualities of Tobias’s previous musical outings.
Gila Man’s individual songs vividly evoke characters and scenes within the album’s imaginary narrative, casting dusty projections onto the mind’s eye. Breezily meditative single ‘Pollen Path’ shimmers with acoustic fingerpicking and Chloë March’s celestial voice. ‘Howler’s Hill’ breaks out of its haunted intro into an agitated, fuzzy churn, while ‘Queen Mab’ circles around synth and chime motifs to create a delicate, melancholic dirge. ‘Tularosa’, again featuring Chloë March, is woozy, French-sounding atmos-pop. ‘Highlake’s Last Stand’ pits dreamy guitar wanderings against ritualistic sludge rock. Wherever this music ventures, the listener is compelled to follow.
Hidden Shoal MixTape
