We know you've been loving <a title="Erik Nilsson" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/erik-nilsson/">Erik Nilsson</a>'s sumptuous new track '<a title="On and Onward" href="http://eriknilsson.bandcamp.com/track/on-and-onward" target="_blank">On and Onward</a>' and waiting for his second album to drop (we have cameras in your house). Well quit your waiting and start your listen as the beautiful sophomore release from Nilsson, <a title="Hearing Things" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/erik-nilsson/" target="_blank"><em>Hearing Things</em></a>, has just landed. Drawing on folk, classical and electronica, Erik Nilsson blends acoustic instruments with field recordings and computer-generated sounds, crafting music akin to early Four Tet, Tortoise at their most minimal, and fellow Scandinavian soundscapers The Gentleman Losers. His Hidden Shoal debut <em>Hearing Things</em> advances the compositional strategy Nilsson first explored on his acclaimed debut <em>Recollage</em>: simple rhythmic and melodic elements are manipulated and recontextualised into richly textured, emotive pieces.

Check out the opening track 'Ex Nihilo' below or via SoundCloud and stream and purchase the album <a title="Hearing Things" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/erik-nilsson/">here</a>.