Hidden Shoal News
PERTH Remix Album, Free Download!
Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of the freely downloadable Where’s My Dystopia? by Australian outfit perth, comprising remixes of tracks from the band’s acclaimed second album What’s Your Utopia?
What’s most startling about Where’s My Dystopia? is not only how beautifully it complements the original album, but also how well the remixes work together as an integrated whole. This is a reimagined journey through the musical landscape of the original album rather than a collection of disparate snapshots. Where’s My Dystopia? includes the single ‘Drank, Kites And Tomorrow’ remixed by GUM (Tame Impala and Pond’s Jay Watson) alongside radical reworkings by Seams, Filter Beds, Water Graves, Mei Saraswati, Valerio Cosi, Usurper of Modern Medicine, No. 9, Ghost Drums and Mental Powers.
perth’s second album What’s Your Utopia?, which forms the raw material for this new remix album, manages to meld psychedelic pop, folk-laced electronica and shoegaze into a beautifully cohesive statement – a tribute to the idea of a fond place, or utopia, quietly residing in ‘no place’, beyond ourselves. The band’s magic lies in their ability to refract the individual members’ unique sensibilities through an experimental lens; kaleidoscopic sound design is matched by the band’s songwriting dexterity throughout the album’s nine tracks.
“Every part of this record coalesces together strangely, perfectly. And even among the towering, cinematic instrumentals perth still craft a weird sense of sparseness that makes this sound like a bunch of opiate-swilling krautrock kings running down a sand dune” – Who The Hell’s review of What’s Your Utopia? in their best of 2013 round-up
Head over to Bandcamp to grab your copy. Note it’s a “pay what you want” but throw a zero in there and still feel good – we live to give! And if you’ve not already indulged in the sonic and melodic majesty that is perth’s sophomore album, What’s Your Utopia?, then head to the Hidden Shoal Store to grab yourself a copy on CD or in digital formats.
Kramies Featured at Record, Rewind, Play
The Kramies and Jason Lytle collaboration, ‘Clocks Were All Broken’, and its beautiful new music video has just received a glowing write up at the awesome Record, Rewind, Play blog,
“Taken from Dutch-American singer and song-writer Kramies’ The Wooden Heart EP, and featuring the talents of the very excellent Jason Lytle, ‘Clocks Were All Broken’ is not so much a song as a dream fragment, slowly looping and pulsing. Round and round it goes, as you absorb its hidden textures, until suddenly its gone, at which point you’re aware that something is missing, just not quite sure what.
I’d be forever happy if the song’s theme of time standing still – creating an eternally perfect moment like the trippy summer’s day at the beach – were somehow made real, its beautiful and dreamy psychedelia stretching out endlessly. As it is I have to make do with pressing repeat every four minutes, as indeed I have been doing for the last hour or so.” – Record, Rewind, Play
Head over to Youtube to watch the music video. The track is lifted from Kramies stunning EP The Wooden Heart available here.
New Slow Dancing Society Track – Free Download + Stream
‘A Clearing’ is the new single by US ambient artist Drew Sullivan (aka Slow Dancing Society), taken from his forthcoming sixth album The Cogent Sea. ‘A Clearing’ sets the scene beautifully for The Cogent Sea‘s masterfully handled journey into new territory for Drew Sullivan. Gently overlapping waves of synthesizer are suspended amid sustained tones, holding the listener transfixed before Sullivan’s trademark guitar sound gently brings the listener back down to earth, transformed.
Slow Dancing Society’s sixth album The Cogent Sea is another absorbing progression in Drew Sullivan’s discography, introducing elements such as saxophone and old-school drum machine rhythms into the mix. The album explores some of Sullivan’s more overt ’80s influences while also drawing upon elements from across Slow Dancing Society’s stunning, critically acclaimed back catalogue.
‘A Clearing’ is available as a free download from Bandcamp. The Cogent Sea will see release on the 26th June 2014.
New Kramies' Music Video at Sounds Better With Reverb + More!
Kramies‘ beautiful music video for his sumptuous collaboration with Jason Lytle, ‘Clocks Were All Broken’, has just been featured at the awesome Sounds Better With Reverb zine. The video was also chosen as the Video Pick of the Week at The Colorado Sound. And to round it off the video was also featured at excellent blog, The Sunday Experience. Check out their lovely write up,
“Be honest, doesn’t this just stop you dead in your tracks frozen by the deep shiver running down your spine and with the delicate forming of a tear that threatens to escape the corner of your eye, utterly beautiful. New video from the Kramies for the track ‘clocks were all broken’ which comes peeled from their current EP ‘Wooden heart’ out via Hidden Shoal – also features Jason Lytle not that you need any further prods.” – The Sunday Experience
PERTH, Gilded & Kramies at Textura
The latest edition of the wonderful Textura magazine has featured downloads from New Kramies + Jason Lytle Music Video – 'Clocks Were All Broken'
Hidden Shoal is excited to release the new video for Kramies’ gorgeous track ‘Clocks Were All Broken’ which features the instrumental and production talents of Jason Lytle (Grandaddy). The song’s theme of time standing still is rendered visually by experimental film-maker (and label manager) Cam Merton as a never-ending summer’s day at the beach. As the track’s aching synth melodies and voices echo and fracture, the blurred beachgoers begin to fade and multiply, receding into nothingness. Check the video out at YouTube and Vimeo.
‘Clocks Were All Broken’ is taken from Kramies’ brilliant 2013 EP The Wooden Heart, which features collaboration and production from Jason Lytle and Todd Tobias (Circus Devils,Robert Pollard, Guided By Voices). The EP is available now through Hidden Shoal.
PERTH Track Featured in Stormie Mills Video
Check out this fantastic video piece by Chad Peacock for a public work by the wonderful Stormie Mills as part of Re.Discover Bunbury 2014. The video features the gorgeous sounds of perth with their track ‘Old At Heart’.
Stormie Mills ‘The Journey’ from Chad Peacock on Vimeo.
Interview with Markus Mehr in Digital in Berlin
Markus Mehr has been a busy man, amidst performing and working with visual artist Stefanie Sixt and putting the last touches on his next album he also found time to sit down with the folks at Digital in Berlin for a chat. Check it out here.
Markus Mehr – ‘Duck Became Swan’
Kramies 'The Wooden Heart' Featured on French Compilation
The wonderful French zine A Decouvrir Absolument has just released its latest compilation album (number 31!) featuring the title track from Kramies‘ brilliant 2013 EP The Wooden Heart. Lots of wonderful music collected on this freely downloadable comp so be sure to grab yourself a copy from the album page here.
Kramies Interviewed in French Zine Froggy Delight
Yet another wonderful French interview with Kramies has just been published. This time the lovely folk over a Froggy Delight took some time out with our man and talked about his latest EP The Wooden Heart. Check the feature out here (non French speakers may need the help of French friend or worst case Google!).
Hidden Shoal MixTape
