Hidden Shoal News
The Caseworker "Letters From The Coast" Pre-Order & Review
The Caseworker’s gorgeous forthcoming full length Letters From The Coast is now available for CD pre-order through n5Mailorder. The CD comes in a 4 panel wallet with stunning illustration by that graphic wonder Stuart Medley. All pre-orders include an immediate mp3 download of the album so head to n5 and be one of the first to soak in what The Underground of Happiness referred to as,
“a beguiling album of sunburst guitar melodies, sitting on a foundation of drone, with a thin gauze of hazy suspense draped over it.”
Read the full album review by Conor O’Toole over at The Underground of Happiness.
Apricot Rail 'Surry Hills' Review at The Silent Ballet
Apricot Rail’s stunning new single ‘Surry Hills’ has just scooped a glowing review over at The Silent Ballet. Check out the review here and download the track for free here.
Hotels on MTV’s Awkward
Apologies as this is slightly old news but good news nonetheless! Hotel’s awesome track ‘Hydra’, taken off 2009’s Where Hearts Go Broke, recently featured in the MTV Network comedy Awkward. The track aired on Episode 2 to be exact which can be viewed in full here by US residents. The track is also a featured stream and download at MTV so if don’t already own this slice of pop genius then head there to grab it.
Salli Lunn "A Frame Of Reference" Remix Album Out Now!
Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to anounce the release of album A Frame of Reference by Danish spectral noise-rock quartet Salli Lunn, which comprises remixes of songs from their stunning debut album Heresy and Rite, plus all-new songs. The album kicks off in fine style with Scott Solter’s remix of ‘Mirror Girl’, on which the in-demand producer, musician and remixer pares back the original’s spidery postpunk guitars to bring a lurching industrial rhythm section to the fore. Markus Mehr’s dizzying take on single ‘Parachutes Forever’ brings sizzling amp hum into juxtaposition against a double-speed guitar loop, snatches of the main groove, and Lasse Skjold Bertelsen’s vocal, while City Of Satellites transform ‘Fast Cars, Clean Bodies’ into a dreamy electro-rock night cruise.
Heresy and Rite producer Jonas Munk (Manual) takes on ‘The Invention of Steel’, rendering the song a brilliant, cascading and hypnotic krautrock jam. Previously unreleased track ‘50 Kisses’ is reworked by TV Baby as a driving, lo-fi chase scene, while ‘White Sight’, also previously unreleased, rounds out the album in fine style, with its main riff simultaneously drunken and laser-guided in intensity.
“… Salli Lunn persistently avoid any repetition or similar themes – and take every opportunity to push their music into new territories and expand on their own musicianship… on Heresy & Rite, this act of innovation and unpredictability delivers with extreme accuracy.” – No Ripcord
A Frame of Reference is available as an exclusive digital release through the Hidden Shoal Store and all good third party online stores. Album Heresy and Rite is also available worldwide in CD and digital formats and for the first time is now available through Hidden Shoal on vinyl. Be sure to check out the awesome music video for Scott Solter’s remix of ‘Mirror Girl’.
Salli Lunn – ‘The Invention of Steel (Manual Remix)’
[The] Caseworker 'National Runner' – Music Video
Hot on the heels of the release of their awesome new single ‘National Runner‘, The Caseworker now have a wonderful music video to accompany the track thanks to film maker Joe Macken. True to the theme of the track, the video features footage of the amazing Ethiopian long distance runner Miruts Yifter doing his magic. And if you think long distance running is a yawn fest then you have not seen Yifter’s final lap turbo blast – it gives me goosebumps, it honestly does! Check out the video below or in HD at Youtube and be sure to download the single for free from the Hidden Shoal Store.
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Hotels and HSR Competition at Scene Point Blank – Win!
Head over to the excellent Scene Point Blank for a chance to win a bunch of very cool prizes including a signed copy of Hotel’s sublime On The Casino Floor. The competition will be drawn on the 1st of November and co-incides with a wonderful upcoming interview with Hotel’s Blake Madden. Check out all the info here.
Scott Solter 'The Great Cold' – Free Download!
‘The Great Cold’, by US producer Scott Solter, is taken from the re-release of his glacial ambient masterpiece One River. Chilly, gaseous tones swell and recede, all the while shadowed by a ghostly high note. Solter creates an unforgettable atmosphere, which becomes all the more moving when experienced as part of the complete album. The track is accompanied by Mark Solter and Laura Solter’s immersive, impressionistic video, in which burnished forms simultaneously suggest the vast expanses of space and the intricate textures of cellular surfaces.
“a mixture of heavily processed guitars, field recordings, and manipulated voices (provided by Wendy Allen) comparable to Brian Eno. Seven songs run seamlessly together, each inhaling and exhaling tone after tone… landscape imagery comes to mind in every song, making listening to this record not so like hearing a story as taking a journey.” – Pitchfork on Scott Solter’s One River
As a producer, recordist and mixer, Solter has worked with numerous indie artists, including Erik Friedlander, Spoon, The Mountain Goats, John Vanderslice, Lazarus, The Forms, Pattern is Movement, Superchunk, Okkervil River, Liam Singer, and St Vincent. He has also executed a number of remixes, including Scott Solter Re-Populates The Caribbean (Hidden Shoal, 2009), as well as remixes for Division Day, Voices Voices, and Neon Indian, plus Hidden Shoal band Salli Lunn’s track ‘Mirror Girl’. He is a member of The Balustrade Ensemble, producing 2007’s Capsules for Dynamophone Records, and Hidden Shoal’s very own Boxharp with Wendy Allen.
‘The Great Cold’ is available for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store. One River is released on 29 September (CD + Digital) and will be available for CD pre-orders from 15 September from n5Mailorder. View the stunning video accompaniment on Youtube or Vimeo.
[The] Caseworker 'National Runner' – Free Download!
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Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of the new single ‘National Runner’ by garage-dreampop trio The Caseworker.
With ‘National Runner’, The Caseworker have an instant pop classic on their hands. The song’s consummate balance of drone and chime features a heady mix of hypnotic guitars and driving rhythm section, all perfectly offset by Conor Devlin’s starry-eyed vocal. Learning that the track is an ode to famed Ethiopian Olympic long-distance runner Miruts Yifter makes all the more sense after being doused in its heady atmosphere.
“The Caseworker extract darkness from inside whispery, ambient pop… completely enraptured and awesomely dazed” – Rolling Stone
‘National Runner’ opens the band’s forthcoming third album Letters From The Coast, which sees The Caseworker continue to deliver their own unique sonic magic. The album has the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label, creating an enigmatic intimacy and atmosphere, which the band wrap around immaculately crafted pop songs like smoke. Perfectly intoxicating. Letters From The Coast (Hidden Shoal, 2011) was recorded by Monte Vallier (also of the band Swell) at San Francisco’s Ruminator Audio Studios (Young Prisms, Weekend, Tommy Guerrero).
‘National Runner’ is available now as a free download. Read a full press release here. Letters From The Coast is out 22 Sept, 2011.
Slow Dancing Society at Number 4 on the KZSU Top30
The re-issue of Slow Dancing Society’s stunning Priest Lake Circa ’88 has staked its place on the KZSU Top 30, sitting at the number 4 spot on the chart. All three Slow Dancing Society re-issues have charted heavily at KZSU, so much so that Slow Dancing Society has had a presence in the charts nearly every week over the last few months or so.
This comes as we prepare for the release of the upcoming EP We Don’t Look Back For Very Long which sees Antonymes remix and re-construct one track from each of the four Slow Dancing Society albums. The release will be available as a gorgeous hand made limited edition package as well a digitally. More on this very soon!
New Hidden Shoal Signings – [The] Caseworker and Kramies
Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the signing of garage-dreampop trio [The] Caseworker and Dutch-American singer-songwriter Kramies to its roster of artists.
With each successive release, garage-dreampop trio [The] Caseworker deliver their own timeless sonic magic. Their upcoming 2011 album Letters From The Coast has the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label – the perfect balance of drone and chime. The band creates an enigmatic intimacy and atmosphere, which they wrap around immaculately crafted pop songs like smoke. Perfectly intoxicating.
Dutch-American singer-songwriter Kramies has been honing his inimitable craft for many years, bewitching all who have heard his music along the way. Fusing masterful songwriting with electronics and atmospherics, stepping into a Kramies song means being swept up into an emotionally resonant vortex of swooning pop that simply demands repeat listens.
[The] Caseworker’s new single ‘National Runner’ is released on 18 August, with their new album Letters From The Coast released on 22 September. Kramies new EP The European is released on 22 November with a single preceding the release in October.
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