<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Drew-Sullivan-20141.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-9155" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Drew-Sullivan-20141-300x300.jpg" alt="Slow Dancing Society" width="221" height="221" /></a>We're excited to announce the release <a title="Lilac Lullabies" href="https://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/i-lilac-lullabies" target="_blank"><em>Lilac Lullabies</em></a>, the first in a series of four new <a title="Slow Dancing Society" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/">Slow Dancing Society</a> EPs. The EP follows hot on the heels of the reissue of his acclaimed debut album <em><a title="The Sound of Lights When Dim" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/">The Sound of Lights When Dim</a>.</em> Each of the new EPs will be released digitally, one per month from June to September 2017, with the four EPs released collectively on double vinyl later in the year. Lilac Lullabies is available now via <a title="Bandcamp" href="https://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/i-lilac-lullabies" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>, Spotify, iTunes and the other usual outlets.

<em>Lilac Lullabies</em> is a concise, five-song serving of SDS’s sensual, free-flowing ambient. It revisits the atmospheric feel of earlier albums <em>The Sound of Lights When Dim</em>, <em>The Slow and Steady Winter</em> and <em>Priest Lake Circa ’88</em>, with a delicious sense of space and restraint. Centrepiece ‘A Quiet Storm’ reaches heavenwards with its Gilmour-esque guitar lines, while ‘Before We Wake’ is a meditation on weightlessness, with gently pulsing bass and an ephemeral shroud of synth. And ‘The Dusty Morning Light’ brings the EP to a reflective close with its beautifully wistful Mellotron line.

Slow Dancing Society is Washington-based producer and musician Drew Sullivan, who has released 7 albums on Hidden Shoal over the last 11 years. As with Brian Eno’s finest moments and David Sylvian’s ambient explorations, Slow Dancing Society’s music manages to dissolve its temporal markers and speak about moments removed from time. It talks to the delicious flaws of memory and feeling whilst never sullying itself with literality or simple documentation.
<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/324396478&amp;color=000000&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" frameborder="no" scrolling="no"></iframe>