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<h1>Slow Dancing Society</h1>
<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-9141" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Drew-Sullivan-2014-300x300.jpg" alt="Slow Dancing Society" width="259" height="259" /></a><em>““a complexity of sound that allows it to stand out from traditionally ambient music… It is easy to get dissolved in this album, to let yourself fall into meditation as the music plays… an aural delight”</em> –<strong> The Silent Ballet </strong>

Slow Dancing Society is Washington-based producer and musician Drew Sullivan. 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.

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<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>The Cogent Sea</h4>
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Slow Dancing Society’s sixth album <em>The Cogent Sea</em> is another absorbing progression in Drew Sullivan’s mesmerising discography. The album continues the submersed exploration of Sullivan’s ’80s influences while also drawing upon an incredibly focused and cinematic ambient minimalism. There are trademark elements from across Slow Dancing Society’s stunning, critically acclaimed back catalogue, but rather than being throwbacks they present a continuity of narrative that is rarely found over such a large body of work. On single ‘A Clearing’, gently overlapping waves of synthesizer are suspended amid sustained tones, holding the listener transfixed before Sullivan’s trademark guitar sound gently brings the listener back down to earth, transformed. Second single ‘Pull’ is aptly titled, its droning radiance, warm piano chords and magnetic guitar figures pulling the listener irresistibly into its enveloping glow. This is Slow Dancing Society at his masterful, immersive best.
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<h4>Laterna Magica</h4>
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Slow Dancing Society’s fifth album <em>Laterna Magica</em> demonstrates another key progression in the Slow Dancing Society discography, which is becoming one of the essential bodies of work in contemporary ambient music. The tracks are underpinned by gorgeous guitar drift and warm synth wash, sparingly propelled by throbbing electronic undercurrents. From the soft-focus exhalation of ‘A Few Moments’, via the gleaming musical universe of recently released single ‘I’ll Leave A Light On’, through to the hypnotic pulse and drifting melancholic piano of finale ‘Tomorrow’s Another Day’, <em>Laterna Magica</em> is a definitive Slow Dancing Society release.
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<h4>Under The Sodium Lights</h4>
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Following on from the ebullient warmth of the critically acclaimed <em>Priest Lake Circa ’88</em>, <em>Under The Sodium Lights</em> is Drew Sullivan’s latest ambient epic. The album feels like a distillation of the three stunning releases that preceded it – and as such is Sullivan’s finest work to date. The delicate interplay between focused melodic details and blurred washes of sound draws the listener into a hypnotised state, where the waking world and the world of sleep cascade in and out of balance. First single ‘…and to the dust we shall return’ sees the gradual accretion of reverberant guitar tones, emerging from the silence as sparse reflections across the stereo field. Slow searching melodies overlap and accumulate before a descending bass figure carries the song home to its elegiac conclusion. From the luscious, tactile dream of ‘The Songs In Your Eyes’ to hopeful finale ‘Love Is On The Way’, <em>Under The Sodium Lights</em> resonates with a rich emotional core – and the choking realisation of our own transience. The album rewards immersive listening from start to finish, to really soak in its beauty.
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<h4>Priest Lake Circa '88</h4>
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Following on from the ice-sculpted cinematics of the critically praised <em>The Slow and Steady Winter</em>, <em>Priest Lake Circa ’88</em> is Drew Sullivan’s finest work to date. In essence, it is the second part of a double album that began with <em>The Slow and Steady Winter</em>, acting as a long-distance conclusion to the double album’s narrative arc. <em>Priest Lake Circa ’88</em> exudes restraint and repose, yet is so richly melodic and full. While the album draws its raw form from ambient music, post rock and even dream pop, it is masterfully crafted into something that could only ever find itself under the Slow Dancing Society moniker. The album speaks of both departure and eventual return, and perhaps in its broadest sense the notion of “home”. Above all, this is music to bathe in: warm, steamy and all-encompassing.
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<h4>The Slow and Steady Winter</h4>
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From the outset<em> The Slow and Steady Winter</em> sets itself up to be an epic. Clocking in at over an hour long and comprising of only eight tracks the album paints its majestic landscapes with both measure and purpose, unfolding a sound that moves from immersive ambient evocations to beatific bliss rock. <em>The Slow and Steady Winter</em> is not concerned with singularity but rather the totality of experience. The album is a gorgeously choreographed chronicle of a Spokane winter from the ice covered fields of ‘The Early Stages of Decline’ to the thawed warm edges of spring in ‘February Sun’. The album serves as a wonderful progression from Slow Dancing Society’s previous work both in sound and mood. In part it presents a much darker vision while still radiating an ineffable sense of humanity and heart.
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<h4>The Sound of Lights When Dim</h4>
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<em>The Sound of Lights When Dim</em> is a sumptuous unfolding ride towards a fading horizon. As with Eno’s finest moments and Sylvian’s ambient explorations, this work 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.

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<h3>Biography</h3>
Slow Dancing Society is Washington based musician/producer and nostalgist extraordinaire, Drew Sullivan. If ever there was an artist who truly expressed themselves in a way that defies everything music and art expects, and at times demands, then Slow Dancing Society would be that artist. With influences ranging from classic artists such as Brian Eno, Def Leppard, Tears For Fears, The Cure, Eddie Money, Pink Floyd, Prince, Spandeau Ballet and U2 to contemporary artists like Manual, Charles Webster, Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Rós, Hammock, Red House Painters and My Morning Jacket, one might begin to understand what they are in for when they hear something coming from Slow Dancing Society.

At times there is a pure abandonment of structure, continuity, consistancy and most importantly, hipness. If one were to compare the music of Slow Dancing Society to anything, it would be our memories and our past. Which is probably why one will experience such a sense of nostalgia and an overall coloring of sentimental values when they listen to the music. One cannot refute the notions that life is abstract, doesn’t always make sense, isn’t always beautiful (though at times the contrary) and never what it seems. So why then does the music have to be?

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<h3>News</h3>
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<h2>Reviews</h2>
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<h3>Press Releases</h3>
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<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/Slow_Dancing_Society-The_Cogent_Sea-Press Release.pdf"><em>The Cogent Sea</em> Album Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/Slow_Dancing_Society-Pull_Press_Release.pdf">‘Pull’ Single Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Slow_Dancing_Society-A_Clearing.pdf">‘A Clearing’ Single Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Slow_Dancing_Society-Laterna_Magica.pdf"><em>Laterna Magica</em> Album Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Slow_Dancing_Society-Ill_Leave_a_Light_On.pdf">‘I’ll Leave a Light On’ Single Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Slow_Dancing_Society-Under_The_Sodium_Lights.pdf"> <em>Under The Sodium Lights</em> Album Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Slow_Dancing_Society-and_to_the_dust_we_shall_remain.pdf">‘…and to the dust we shall return’ Single and Video Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Slow_Dancing_Society-Priest_Lake_Circa_88.pdf" target="_blank"><em>Priest Lake Circa ’88</em> Album Release </a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Slow_Dancing_Society_Single.pdf" target="_blank">'A Warm Glow' Single Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-New_Slow_Dancing_Society_Album.pdf"><em>The Slow and Steady Winter</em> Album Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Slow_Dancing_Society_Album.pdf" target="_blank"><em>The Sounds Of Lights When Dim</em> Album Release </a>

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<h3>Music Videos</h3>
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<h3>Licensing</h3>
Slow Dancing Society's music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="1_4"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label="Sidebar" orientation="left" area="sidebar-1" background_layout="dark" module_id="shoalsidebar" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]