<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/thecaseworker.jpg" alt="[The] Caseworker" width="155" height="230" align="left" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of the new single ‘National Runner’ by garage-dreampop trio <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/the-caseworker/">The Caseworker</a>.

With ‘National Runner’, The Caseworker have an instant pop classic on their hands. The song’s consummate balance of drone and chime features a heady mix of hypnotic guitars and driving rhythm section, all perfectly offset by Conor Devlin’s starry-eyed vocal. Learning that the track is an ode to famed Ethiopian Olympic long-distance runner Miruts Yifter makes all the more sense after being doused in its heady atmosphere.

<em>“The Caseworker extract darkness from inside whispery, ambient pop… completely enraptured and awesomely dazed” </em>– <strong>Rolling Stone</strong>

‘National Runner’ opens the band’s forthcoming third album<em> Letters From The Coast</em>, which sees The Caseworker continue to deliver their own unique sonic magic. The album has the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label, creating an enigmatic intimacy and atmosphere, which the band wrap around immaculately crafted pop songs like smoke. Perfectly intoxicating. <em>Letters From The Coast</em> (Hidden Shoal, 2011) was recorded by Monte  Vallier (also of the band Swell) at San Francisco’s Ruminator Audio  Studios (Young Prisms, Weekend, Tommy Guerrero).

'National Runner' is available now as a <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=52&amp;products_id=176">free download</a>. Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-The_Caseworker-National_Runner.pdf">here</a>. <em>Letters From The Coast </em>is out 22 Sept, 2011.


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