Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce an upcoming release by American folk-pop deconstructionists The Caribbean. The band has teamed up with engineer, producer, mixologist Scott Solter (Spoon, Okkervil River, The Mountain Goats) and Hidden Shoal to bring you Scott Solter RePopulates The Caribbean, an EP of dizzying curve balls that split the difference between glistening songcraft and complete re-construction.
“You’re forced to occupy their barren pop architecture…. You don’t understand it, but, though you might not admit it, you do hope it will understand you. Or at least not destroy you…” – Pitchfork
The band is known for assembling songs and records via email and snail-mail, and although that creative model has been abandoned now the band members live in close proximity, the mind-set is locked in. It’s part of the group DNA. The idea of sending five tracks from The Caribbean’s 2007 Hometapes record Populations to Scott Solter to deconstruct, warp, and otherwise obliterate, was neither intimidating nor foreign. While Solter was busy toiling with 2” tape, textiles, liquid polymers, and computers in his North Carolina sound lab, the group became familiar with Hidden Shoal and it became clear to both group and label that the Caribbean/Solter EP was, conceptually, just the kind of project that might be perfect for Hidden Shoal to release. Once group and label began receiving rushes of Solter’s work, it became obvious that such a Caribbean-Hidden Shoal partnership would make creative sense.
Scott Solter RePopulates The Caribbean will be released on Hidden Shoal Recordings on 2nd April 2009, preceded by the single ‘Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?’ on 26th February. Read a full press release here and check The Caribbean’s artists profile for more info on the band.