Hidden Shoal News
Brother Earth ‘City of Gold’ – Stream + Download
‘City of Gold’ is the second single taken from Brother Earth‘s brilliant forthcoming album Positive Haywires (16th Sept 2014) through Hidden Shoal. If their first single ‘Out Like A Lion‘ saw Brother Earth creeping around in the darkness weaving mesmerising magic, ‘City Of Gold’ sees them breaking into the light as fist-pumping power chords carry the song into the same realm of lo-fi rock classicism as prime GBV. This is epic dream-rock, packed into a running time of just over a minute.
Download the song for free via Bandcamp or stream it at SoundCloud. Positive Haywires drops on the 16th of September with pre-orders available soon.
New Involved Single – Stream + Download
The beautiful lead single from Involved‘s forthcoming debut album Revolving Maze is upon us! On ‘Machiavella’, Involved open the curtains to a widescreen electronic classic. One part ’90s IDM gravitas, one part cosmic electronica, one part driving sci-fi soundtrack, the song pulses with drama and ambience across its five-and-a-half-minute run time.
Download the single via Bandcamp or stream it at SoundCloud. Involved’s stunning debut, Revolving Maze, drops on the 19th September. Check out more on Involved here.
DrAlienSmith and Kryshe Sign to Hidden Shoal
We have some very exciting news to share, with two new wonderful artists joining the Hidden Shoal family!
Perth-based producer and musician Al Smith, working under the DrAlienSmith moniker, has signed a publishing deal for his brilliant 4 track EP Under Songs, a monolithic slab of doom/shoegaze/post-rock. Smith’s other life sees him mixing and mastering other people’s recordings at Bergerk! Studios, and over the last 15 years he’s worked with more than 300 bands, including The Devil Rides Out, Drowning Horse, Abbe May, Eleventh He Reaches London, Claim The Throne and Extortion, as well as Hidden Shoal’s own Tangled Star. Check out the EP and more on DrAlienSmith here.
At the other end of the sonic spectrum and a hemisphere away we have Germany-based ambient experimental musician Kryshe (Christian Grothe). The stunning In Between EP will be released through Hidden Shoal on 25th September, as well as being added to the Hidden Shoal publishing catalogue. Kryshe’s exquisitely subtle and detailed ambient work is reminiscent of the collaborative work of Eno and Budd, as delicate yet assured melodies unfurl before being subjected to delicate manipulation. Read more about Kryshe here and be sure to sign up to the Hidden Shoal mailing list to be informed of the EP release.
Both In Between and Under Songs will also join the Hidden Shoal licensing catalogue and be available for all film, tv, games and web projects.
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.
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