Hidden Shoal News
Apricot Rail Featured on MAAMF Mixtape
Apricot Rail’s ‘Scarecrow’ is featured on the very last (ever!) MAAMF mixtape! Sad to see the world lose the wonderful Australian blog but what a tape to go out on.
Slow Dancing Society in Ambient Music Guide’s Best of 2016!
Slow Dancing Society‘s stunning release The Wagers Of Love And Their Songs From The Witching Hour has made the best albums of 2016 list at the awesome Ambient Music Guide! Here’s what they had to say about the album,
“This latest collection of emotional post-rock miniatures from Drew Sullivan aka Slow Dancing Society is by turns cinematic, tender and edgy. Sullivan continues to prod and explore the boundaries of his art and The Wagers Of Love finds his music as seductive as ever.” – Ambient Music Guide
Check out the excellent list here and listen to the album here.
Glanko & Daniel Bailey’s “Isometrik Remixes” EP Out Now!
We’re excited to announce the release of Isometrik Remixes, featuring reworkings of Glanko & Daniel Bailey’s atmospheric ambient EP Isometrik. The EP is available now via BandCamp, Spotify, iTunes and the other usual suspects.
On their debut collaboration, Isometrik, Glanko & Daniel Bailey delivered an EP rich with textural counterpoint, full of brooding yet innately melodic pieces that envelope the listener with their intensity and grace. On this beautiful new companion EP we see these tracks brilliantly deconstructed and made new by Marco Caricola, Arc Lab, Davide Cantile, and Glanko and Daniel Bailey themselves. From Arc Lab’s sublime expansive reworking of ‘Consunzione’ to Marco Caricola’s emotive neo-classical take on ‘Adiaphora’ to David Cantile’s minimal and brooding dual takes on ‘Vaucanson’, Glanko & Danely Bailey’s guests bring a sense of reverence for the originals along with ingenuity in their re-incarnation. Glanko’s own re-working of ‘Vaucanson’ is luscious and pensive electronic neo-classicism whilst Daniel Bailey delivers an epic and brooding slow build in the form of 12.15’s Riddle (Outro)’.
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.”
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