<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/the-slow-beings.jpg" align="left" height="153" width="180" />Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the signing of the Australian ante-indie rock outfit <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/the-slow-beings/">The Slow Beings</a> to its roster of artists.

<em>“Out of the ashes of some of Perth’s finest indie bands (The Bamboos, The Rainyard, The Healers, Header, <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/tangledstar/">Tangled Star</a>) The Slow Beings may well be one of indie rock’s new shining lights. The band has a way of delivering wonderfully crafted and composed melodic songs with an almost imperceptible prankishness... Add pop hooks in the twilight, measured turns and twists, an adroit rhythm section and Craig Hallsworth’s warped lyrical genius and then give up trying to imagine...”</em> – <strong>Press Release Excerpt</strong>.

The label will release The Slow Beings debut masterpiece <em>We Know Why The Earth Moves</em> on the 20th of May, 2008. The first single from the album ‘I Waste the Sea’ will be released on the 22nd of April.