Hidden Shoal News
2008: This Generation’s 4AD
As part of our 5th birthday celebrations, during the month of May we’ll be looking back at the history of Hidden Shoal, year by year, casting some light on artists and releases that may have been overlooked. For one week, all releases covered below will be available from the Hidden Shoal Store with a 35% discount. Flavoursome!
2008 saw the release of a fresh new raft of superb albums and EPs, including those by new signings The Slow Beings, Fall Electric and City Of Satellites from Australia, Ghost In The Water and Rich Bennett from the USA, and RL/VL from Ireland. HSR stalwarts Tangled Star, Toby Richardson, My Majestic Star, Iretsu, Slow Dancing Society and Sankt Otten all followed up with some of their most critically acclaimed work. And at the end of the year we released compilation album East–West Section, volume four in our free download series.
As acclaim for our artists spread internationally, we were delighted to hear that prominent New York radio host DJ Mojo dubbed the label “this generation’s 4AD”. As huge fans of the classic label, this was a massive and humbling compliment.
HSR031: Tangled Star Our Man In Eden Hill EP
HSR032: Toby Richardson Evergreen
HSR033: Ghost In The Water Tooth
HSR034: The Slow Beings We Know Why The Earth Moves
HSR035: Iretsu Name Our Numbers, Numbers EP
HSR036: Slow Dancing Society Priest Lake Circa ’88
HSR037: My Majestic Star Too Late, The Day
HSR038: Rich Bennett Music For Underwater Supermarkets
HSR039: Sankt Otten Eine Kleine Traurigkeit
HSR040: RL/VL Chagrin
HSR041: Fall Electric Measure And Step
HSR042: City Of Satellites The Spook EP
HSR043: Sankt Otten Tiefgang EP
HSR044: Ghost In The Water Cardinal Red EP
HSR045: Various artists East–West Section
Umpire "Now We're Active" – Track 5!
Finally we make TGIF meaningful as we present track 5 of Umpire‘s forthcoming full length Now We’re Active. ‘Jewellery Can Be Disturbing’ was described to us by the band as their “big dumb rock song” but in actuality its their “big smart rock song”! Like The Posies playing an ode to Polvo, the track’s huge rockery is smothered in layers of melodic charm. You’ll be humming this sucker all through the weekend, trust us.
You can follow the link below to grab the track and embed it on your Facebook page, website, wherever. Tune in here tomorrow for track 6!
Interview with Hidden Shoal's Cam Merton in Drum Media Perth
Now that Hidden Shoal is a bouncy five years old, music mag Drum Media Perth recently caught up with Hidden Shoal’s very own Cam Merton to discuss the label’s inception, ethos, and the way in which we’ve blossomed into a label of delectable repute. Perth folk can grab a good ol’ paper copy, while everyone else will have to get their cyber hands dirty by going here and flicking forward to page 12 via the Interweb interface-o-tron.
And remember, as part of our celebrations you can grab our latest compilation album Hydrozoa for free. On it you’ll find 18 tracks from Hidden Shoal releases spanning the last 18 months. Yum!
Umpire "Now We're Active" – Track 4!
Thursday turns golden as we present track 4 of Umpire‘s forthcoming full length Now We’re Active. ‘The Canyon’ is a chiming, surging epic that grabs you by the grabbables and slingshots you towards the horizon! The track had its first public airing on RTRFM this week and has already scooped a track of the day on Tuesdays Drivetime (thanks Sarah Delfante!).
You can follow the link below to grab the track and embed it on your Facebook page, website, wherever. Tune in here tomorrow for track 5!
Antonymes and Slow Dancing Society Charting
Antonymes The Licence to Interpret Dreams and the reissue of Slow Dancing Society’s The Sound Of Lights When Dim are both charting at the awesome KZSU. Antonymes is is making his presence felt in the CMJ top 30 at KZSU and is holding down number 3 in the Experimental/Classical chart and Slow Dancing Society is keeping it in check at number 7 in the same chart. Go Hidden Shoal!
Umpire "Now We're Active" – Track 3!
Happy Wednesday as we unfurl track 3 of Umpire‘s forthcoming full length melody bomb Now We’re Active for your streaming pleasure. ‘Corner An Owl In An Alcove’ is yet another example of Umpire’s innate ability to marry a pop sensibility with epic rockness! The track moves from upbeat to loaded with gravitas in a matter of bars. Just as we like it.
You can follow the link below to grab the track and embed it on your Facebook page, website, wherever. Tune in here tomorrow for track 4!
City of Satellites on Channel Ten’s Offspring!
If you happened to be watching popular comedy-drama Offspring on Channel Ten last night, you may have noticed that there was some particularly awesome music at the 1:13 mark. Well, that was Hidden Shoal’s very own City of Satellites with the track ‘Control’, taken from their stunning debut album Machine Is My Animal. More Offspring placements coming soon!
Umpire "Now We're Active" – Track 2
Its that time of day (well in this timezone anyway – apologies to our International fans!). Today we present track 2 of Umpire‘s forthcoming glorybox of sublimity (I looked it up, its a word ok?). Track 2 of Now We’re Active is the exultant and purely addictive ‘Supply Chins’. Perth folks had a sneak peak at this song over the last year via an earlier version of the track sent in to RTRFM. You can follow the link below to grab the track and embed it on your Facebook page, website, wherever. Tune in here tomorrow for track 3!
Exclusive Hidden Shoal Mix at Headphone Commute
Head over to the wonderful Headphone Commute and check out this exclusive Hidden Shoal mix. The mix features 16 tracks lovingly curated and sequenced from the Hidden Shoal catalogue by the label’s manager Cam Merton. Stream, download, enjoy!
Umpire "Now We're Active" – Track 1
Starting today we’re going to post a streaming track a day from the forthcoming Umpire album, Now We’re Active, right up until the release on the 2nd of June. Keep your eyes and ears out here on the label site and also on the Umpire and Hidden Shoal facebook pages and be prepared to work your way up to a sonic frenzy by release time!
Today we’re easing you in to Umpire’s 10 track empire of sonic and melodic awesomeness. Track 1 of Now We’re Active is indeed the stunning single ‘Green Light District‘ which you can download for free here. You can follow the link below to grab the track and embed it on your Facebook page, website, wherever. Tune in here tomorrow for track 2!
Hidden Shoal MixTape
