<img align="right" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/bio/toby_store.jpg" />Now here's some news to get the Aussie summer started! Inimitable lo-fi pop genius <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/toby-richardson/">Toby Richardson</a> is completing work on his rollicking new album <em>Evergreen</em>, which will be preceded by the absolutely bonkers new single 'Booragoon Lagoon'. Here's the story from the man himself:

<em> 'Booragoon Lagoon' is a song which really came from being excited about a particular bluesy tone I was getting from my new guitar. It had a swampy sound and I got a nice spiky riff going. I built a whole story around that - how I learnt my guitar chops from hanging out with cool swamp rockers down at Booragoon swamp. A total fiction! But it links my local hangouts as a kid with my rock and roll dream, so its a song I’m very fond of.</em>

It's actually impossible to not fall in love with the song, a wonky fist-in-the-air anthem that blends the catchy attack of The Kinks with the bluesy skronk of Captain Beefheart. Bloody amazing!

Toby has just posted some news about the making of the album on his <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=104289129&blogID=326260614">MySpace site</a>, so pop along there for the full scoop.

In the meanwhile enjoy a slice of genius from his wonderful debut EP <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=24"><em>Golden Days</em></a>.

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/toby/Those_Times_Are_Gone.mp3">Toby Richardson - Those Times are Gone</a>  <em>Toby Richardson - Those Times are Gone</em>