Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the forthcoming reissue of <a title="Erik Nilsson" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/erik-nilsson/">Erik Nilsson</a>’s superb debut album <i>Recollage </i>(23/5/16)<i>. </i>To get you in the mood we have the wonderful album track 'Tail Lights' available for download and streaming.<i>
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There is a vibrant playfulness across <i>Recollage</i>’s nine tracks, with each song mapping out its own discrete world. Nilsson skilfully mixes electronics with live instruments and field recordings, before subjecting the songs to digital manipulation, creating an uncanny and arresting blend that is often as technically dizzying as it is musically and emotionally engaging. Glitchy yet exquisitely tuneful, <i>Recollage</i>’s music-box melodies bring to mind Björk’s <i>Vespertine</i>, while its compositional style is reminiscent of The Books’ cut-up approach to songcraft.

The album is clearly a vivid precursor to acclaimed second album <a title="Hearing Things" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/erik-nilsson/"><em>Hearing Things</em></a> (2015), but also its own unique creature. First released through Luxus-Artica Records in 2011, <em>Recollage</em> has received extra instrumentation, been fully re-mastered, and also includes the original version of album track ‘Rumore del Roma’.

<em>“Nilsson’s work lands in something of a sweet spot for me as a listener, taking approachable bases, things possessed of an easy, lilting beauty, and then working them through this filter or that concept, finding workable juxtapositions and pushing envelopes as he goes”</em> – <strong>Hypnagogue on <i>Hearing Things</i></strong>