<em><img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/licence_LRG.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="238" align="left" /></em>Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the official release of <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=49&amp;products_id=167"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em></a> by neo-classical/minimal ambient  artist <a href="http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams">Antonymes</a>. <em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams, </em>Antonymes debut for Hidden Shoal<em>, </em> is an album of resonant beauty, as expansive as the  wilds of North  Wales from which it came, yet as delicate and intimate  as a loved one’s  breath upon your skin. Each song deploys a modest array  of instruments  and textures, giving them ample space to breathe and  glow. The album’s  scope is immediately apparent on breathtaking opener  ‘The Slow  Beginnings of a ‘A Fragile Acceptance’, where faint piano  notes are  overwhelmed by an aching surge of cellos, and the timeless,  lingering  chord progression of ‘The Siren, Hopelessly Lost’.

Single ‘Endlessly’ weaves traces of nature with unearthly, oscillating   tones before giving way to a strident piano theme. On ‘Doubt’, Jan Van   Den Broek delivers the words of Paul Morley, cradled against a bed of   melancholic piano, violin and cello, leaving an indelible emotional   mark. ‘A Light From The Heavens’ almost feels like a natural conclusion   to the album, with its sense of reflective yearning, but it is followed   by the devastating metaphysical breakdown of ‘On Arrival at the  Strange  Museum’, a cavernous piece that calls out like some giant  magnetic  spirit.

<em>“This album is probably the most heartbreaking set of songs I’ve   heard since Bon Iver’s For Emma Forever Ago, or I Am A Bird Now by   Antony And The Johnsons. It’s Brian Eno meets a dagger to the heart....a   record that deserves album of the year, even four months into 2011.”<strong> </strong></em><strong>– Delusions of Adequacy</strong><em><strong> </strong></em>

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<em><strong></strong>“There is so much to experience and so much the music will conjure   for the listener. The music on The License to Interpret Dreams can   influence how one views the world, their inherent sensibilities, of   knowing, and, finally, of returning.”</em><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>– </strong><strong> Fluid Radio</strong><strong>
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<em>The Licence To Interpret  Dreams</em> is available now physically and digitally through <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=49&amp;products_id=167">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a>,   distributed via <a href="http://n5mailorder.com/release/1178/antonymes-the-licence-to-interpret-dreams-%5BPREORDER%5D">n5Mailorder</a>. Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-The_Licence_To_Interpret_Dreams.pdf">here</a>.

<iframe style="position: relative; display: block; width: 46px; height: 23px" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=1024083464/size=short/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0"><a href="http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/track/the-siren-hopelessly-lost">The Siren, Hopelessly Lost by Hidden Shoal Recordings</a></iframe> Antonymes -  'The Siren, Hopelessly Lost'
