"You might recognise Hidden Shoal from <a href="http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/2015/07/23/rew-3/">our piece on <em>Olive Skinned, Silver Tongued Sirens Sing Swan Songs</em>, the latest album from REW&lt;&lt;</a>. The label has recently released <em>Long Range Transmissions</em>, the first in a series of themed compilations which showcase the ambient/neo-classical acts in their catalogue. It’s the perfect place to introduce yourself to a diverse and interesting collective of musicians.

While the collection comes from a particular genre, there is still room for much variation across the thirteen tracks. Antonymes and Kryshe favour fragile, graceful piano, Cheekbone push a sci-fi inspired electronica and Chloe March creates a lush chamber pop. Todd Tobias evokes a mixture of shimmering bliss and nostalgia, his track ‘Nan Madol’ playing like a super-cinematic missing number from the <em>Twin Peaks</em> soundtrack, while Stockholm’s Erik Nilsson’s gently tropical ‘Drawing/Dreaming’ feels like watching the sun set into the sea on the last night of your holiday. Other highlights include the goosebump-inducing melodrama of Slow Dancing Society’s ‘Pull’, Elisa Luu’s ethereal ‘Chromatic Sigh’ and the aching melancholy of closing track ‘Empty Cradles’ by Sleeping Me."

- <strong><a title="Wake The Deaf" href="http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/2015/11/23/long-range-transmissions-a-hidden-shoal-compilation/" target="_blank">Wake The Deaf</a></strong>