Hidden Shoal News
PERTH Soundtracks “PUBLIC: Art in the City” Video
Slow Dancing Society and PERTH Reviewed at Music Won’t Save You
Our favourite Italian blog, Music Wont Save You, featuring our favourite Italian music writer, Raffaello Russo, has just published glowing reviews of Slow Dancing Society‘s The Cogent Sea and perth‘s Where’s My Dystopia? If you’re not fluent in Italian you may need help from the Google machine.
Pippin Drysdale Documentary Soundtrack
Hidden Shoal has recently had more music placed in another wonderful production. The fantastic short ABC documentary “Pippin Drysdale And Warrick Palmateer: The Perfect Thing” by Chad Peacock and Lauren McDonough features tracks by Hidden Shoal’s My Majestic Star and Slow Dancing Society. The doco is a beautiful exploration of the working relationship between two of Australia’s most talented ceramicists. Stream it online at the ABC Arts website. Congrats to Chad and Lauren for such a great piece.
Involved Sign to Hidden Shoal
We’re extremely excited to welcome electronica duo Involved to the Hidden Shoal family. Involved fuse the psychedelic sounds of ’70s kosmische with ’80s electronic and more modern ambient styles, creating evocative, cinematic music. However, rather than being revisionist, the duo curate fresh sounds from a musical palette that spans 40 years. Lush synth tones are deployed with an innate sense of melody, leading the listener through widescreen narratives of enviable scope. On forthcoming debut album Revolving Maze, the title says it all: this is complex, engrossing music that transforms with each spin.
The first single from Revolving Maze will drop on the 18th of August with the album following on the 19th of September. Their 2013 debut EP Implant is also available now from Bandcamp. We’re also very excited to have both album and EP join the Hidden Shoal licensing and publishing catalogue.
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Involved – ‘Impure’ (taken from the 2103 Implant EP)
Brother Earth ‘Out Like a Lion’ Loving
Brother Earth‘s first cut from their forthcoming album Positive Haywires (September 16th) has been reaching ears and gaining love. ‘Out Like a Lion‘ was a recent featured download on two of our favourite mp3 music blogs, Largehearted Boy and Faronheit and has just been reviewed on the wonderful zine, The Modern Folk Music of America.
“…another in the list of MFOA submissions that happen to be on the formidable hidden shoal imprint… i must admit that i was a little star-struck to receive an email from todd tobias, as he is known for producing several bob pollard/guided by voices records… moody and atmospheric, ‘out like a lion’, the lead single from the forthcoming brother earth LP ‘positive haywires’, simultaneously drives forward while it oozes out around the edges. the song is anchored by an insistent clicking percussion track punctuated by swelling cymbals and a plucked classical guitar, fleshed out by various ambient touches, creating a dark mysterious room for the sleep-talking, trance-like vocal. a mystical freak folk trip.” – The Modern Folk Music of America
Grab the single as a free download from Brother Earth’s Bandcamp site.
Slow Dancing Society Reviewed at Railway Journey
Slow Dancing Society‘s stunning new album The Cogent Sea has received another glowing review, this time at the wonderful Brazilian zine Railway Journey. Check the review out here and for those not fluent in Portuguese here’s a taste in English with a lot of help from our frenemy Google,
“The Cogent Sea is the album to listen to when the only desire is to completely disconnect from the universe in which it dwells for a moment and capture that moment just for us, when the unsolvable or unattainable become possible and the journey becomes endless and unscripted.” – Railway Journey
Head to Bandcamp to buy the album in digital and CD formats.
Brother Earth ‘Out Like A Lion’ Single – Free Download
We’re super excited to announce the release of ‘Out Like A Lion’, the new single by American duo Brother Earth, a collaboration between multi-instrumentalist/producer Todd Tobias (Circus Devils, Robert Pollard, GBV producer) and vocalist Steve Five (The Library is on Fire). ‘Out Like A Lion’ is taken from their forthcoming album Positive Haywires (16th Sept 2014) through Hidden Shoal.
Negotiating the smoky ambience of ‘Out Like A Lion’ feels like squinting into the dark and tiptoeing down a staircase covered in moss. The darkness is pressing in all around you, but the insistence of the percussion and nylon-string guitar tugs you onward, mesmerised by the incantatory vocal. ‘Out Like A Lion’ is the first cut from the forthcoming Brother Earth album Positive Haywires, which vacillates between brooding textural pieces and exuberant rock’n’roll at the drop of a hat, chasing the ghosts of pop music past into a hall of cracked mirrors.
Grab the free download at Bandcamp or stream the track at SoundCloud.
Slow Dancing Society Review in Textura
Slow Dancing Society’s sumptuous new album The Cogent Sea has just scooped a wonderful review in the latest edition of Textura along with being chosen one of this month’s honorable mentions. Textura continues to be one the leading purveyors of new and engaging music so it’s always a treat to read their coverage of Hidden Shoal releases. Read the review in full here and download a featured Slow Dancing Society track in Textura’s Mp3 section. Here’s a taste to get you going,
“… The Cogent Sea registers as a well-considered advance by Sullivan: it maintains a strong sense of connection to and continuity from the previous Slow Dancing Society releases yet also offers subtle modifications in the project’s enticing sound. That he’s been able to effect such a change in such an organic manner on this latest effort suggests there’s still room for other advances in the future, too.” – Textura
Markus Mehr Soundtracks Kyle Hughes-Odgers Video
The startling opening track to Markus Mehr’s On was recently placed in a short video documenting a new work by the brilliant Australian visual artist Kyle Hughes-Odgers, The Giants View. ‘I’m Gonna Make You Love Me’ by Mehr sits beautifully against the wonderful moving image work of Chad Peacock who directed the piece for Hughes-Odgers. Check out the video below and be sure to hit full screen.
The Giant’s View from Chad Peacock on Vimeo.
Slow Dancing Society Reviews at Life is Noise and Igloo Mag
Slow Dancing Society’s stunning 6th album, The Cogent Sea, continues to receive praise at some of our favourite music sites. Both Igloo Mag and Life is Noise have delivered glowing reviews for the album in the last week. Here’s some snippets to get you in the mood,
“The music captivatingly circulates, undulates, croons, chimes and glides… SDS is back with what feels like his most emotionally exposed and atmospherically lucid album to date.” – Igloo Mag
“… ‘By Morning This Will All Seem Like A Dream’ achieves the unenviable task of marrying cheesy 80’s music touchstones of dance floor synths, big ballad guitar leads and Kenny G sax, repackaged and twisted into something genuinely touching. It’s an impressive feat of futuristic musical reimagining and a common theme that emerges throughout the album.” – Life is Noise
Check out the album and the rest of the SDS discography here.
Slow Dancing Society – ‘Pull’
Hidden Shoal MixTape
