<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Cradlesongs_MED.jpg" width="150" align="left" height="150" />Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the debut album <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=38&amp;products_id=107"><em>Cradlesongs </em></a>by American ambient guitarist <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/sleeping-me/">Sleeping Me</a>.

Sleeping Me’s masterful debut album <em>Cradlesongs </em>is an homage to the bittersweet rise and fall of fortune, the discovery and evasiveness of identity and truth, the acceptance of distance and disappointment, and the poignancy of an ever-elusive yet omnipresent love. Tidal currents of delayed guitar carry the listener across an ocean of reverb, cast adrift beneath a brooding sky. Each track hands an elusive secret to the next, hinted at but never revealed.From the sad, sparse introductory piece ‘Empty Cradle’ to the epic melancholy of closing track ‘The Rattle In Our Throats’, <em>Cradlesongs </em>demonstrates an unmatchable elegance and poise, allowing these sorrowful symphonies to extend far beyond their own discrete edges and breathe new life into a crowded genre. Textural and meticulously composed, the emotive ambience of Sleeping Me is a quiet reminder of all the beauty and personal strife that is experienced in solitude.

<em>“minimalism to the max… most elegant”</em><strong> – Luna Kafe</strong>

<em>Cradlesongs </em>is available now in digital format through the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=38&amp;products_id=107">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and all good digital retailers. The album will be available on CD on the 2nd June, distributed through n5Mailorder.

Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Sleeping_Me_Cradlesongs_Release.pdf">here </a>and preview the album in full <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=38&amp;products_id=107">here.</a>

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/Sleeping_Me/cradlesongs/Tired_Hearts.mp3">Sleeping Me - Tired Hearts</a>  <em>Sleeping Me - Tired Hearts</em>