(9263,1,'2014-07-08 13:54:23','2014-07-08 13:54:23','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"170\" height=\"230\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong>\r\n\r\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album <em>Medicine Show</em>. His music is defiantly unique and vividly realised across his evolving discography.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"https://plus.google.com/+ToddTobiasInfo\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a href=\"https://geo.itunes.apple.com/au/artist/todd-tobias/id70698052?uo=6&amp;at=11lRii\" target=\"itunes_store\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12412\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/badge_itunes-sm.png\" alt=\"iTunes\" width=\"44\" height=\"15\" /></a>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h4>Gila Man</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1208157852/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/gila-man\">GILA MAN by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\n18 October 2015\r\n\r\nEach Todd Tobias solo album presents its own discrete, surreal world – and <em>Gila Man</em> is no exception. A wordless musical novella that merges a psychedelic Western with shadowy science fiction, <em>Gila Man</em> simultaneously evokes the wide-eyed wonder of discovery and the creeping dread of what horrors may lurk around the next corner. Featuring the stunning wordless vocals of English songwriter and fellow Hidden Shoal artist <a title=\"Chloe March\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/chloe-march/\" target=\"_blank\">Chloë March</a>, the album is at once beautiful and unsettling – and a wonderful distillation of the magical qualities of Tobias’s previous musical outings.\r\n\r\n<em>Gila Man</em>’s individual songs vividly evoke characters and scenes within the album’s imaginary narrative, casting dusty projections onto the mind’s eye. Breezily meditative single ‘Pollen Path’ shimmers with acoustic fingerpicking and Chloë March’s celestial voice. ‘Howler’s Hill’ breaks out of its haunted intro into an agitated, fuzzy churn, while ‘Queen Mab’ circles around synth and chime motifs to create a delicate, melancholic dirge. ‘Tularosa’, again featuring Chloë March, is woozy, French-sounding atmos-pop. ‘Highlake’s Last Stand’ pits dreamy guitar wanderings against ritualistic sludge rock. Wherever this music ventures, the listener is compelled to follow.\r\n<h4>Tristes Tropiques</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=41056375/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tristes-tropiques\">TRISTES TROPIQUES by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nJune 2015\r\n\r\nWhile best known for producing Guided By Voices and collaborating with Robert Pollard (Circus Devils, Ricked Wicky and Pollard’s solo material), Tobias has also crafted an innovative body of instrumental solo work, of which <em>Tristes Tropique</em> is the latest chapter. Hypnotic and melancholy-soaked, <em>Tristes Tropique</em> presents a luxuriant yet downcast tone, drawing comparisons to the eerie, transportive work of The Fun Years, The Gentleman Losers and Ian William Craig. This is no better exemplified than on single ‘Suvarnabhumi’, in which sparse, yearning guitar figures are subsumed by ethereal synths. Sinister yet alluring, these musical environments throb with sensuality, danger and promise. <em>Tristes Tropique</em> takes its title from the book by French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss, which literally translates as “sad tropics”. Tobias sought to evoke far-flung places where indigenous cultures have either vanished or are in the process of being swallowed up by an ever-expanding global civilization.\r\n<h4>Moorea</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 373px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1001796694/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/moorea\">MOOREA by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nJune 2015\r\n\r\n<em>Moorea</em> is the stunning companion EP to Todd Tobias\'s brilliant 2015 album <em>Tristes Tropiques</em>.\r\n<h4>Impossible Cities</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=271738062/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-cities\">IMPOSSIBLE CITIES by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nOctober 2014\r\n\r\n<em>Impossible Cities</em> is the latest visionary chapter in Todd Tobias’s ongoing exploration of rock’s darkest and most hypnotic realms. Inspired by the Ital Calvino book <em>Invisible Cities</em>, each track is named after an imaginary city, from the glistening exoticism of ‘Lamura’ via the seething murk of ‘Gorgum Reeth’ and ‘Smazbaal’ to the eerie, shimmering grandeur of ‘Akrova’, Tobias’s latest musical universe is vividly rendered, scary, beautiful and utterly immersive. The album comes with the companion mini-album <em>Impossible Cities 2</em>, which comprises 10 haunting vignettes.\r\n<h4>Impossible Cities 2</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1146527875/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-cities-2-ep\">Impossible Cities 2 (EP) by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nOctober 2014\r\n\r\n<em>Impossible Cities 2, </em>comprising 10 haunting vignettes, is the free companion mini-album to Todd Tobias\'s <em>Impossible Cities.</em>\r\n<h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1340px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe>\r\nMay 2013\r\n\r\n<i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias. The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen. Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.\r\n<h4>Night Above Ground</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3025667975/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/night-above-ground-ep\">NIGHT ABOVE GROUND ep by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nNovember 2012\r\n\r\nIn contrast to <em>Medicine Show</em>\'s serpentine construction and intense atmosphere, <em>Night Above Ground</em> is more airy, accessible and playful, bursting into vivid life with the crowd chatter and tumbling noisescapes of ‘Invocation’. Immersive, hypnotic tracks such as ‘Crystal Palace People’ alternate with brief, impressionistic pieces such as ‘Workshop of Spears’ and ‘Ashes and Cream’. The EP’s 17 minutes flow past your third eye like a Dali-esque dream.\r\n<h4>Medicine Show</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 670px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nApril 2012\r\n\r\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive. From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where he played in a string of bands, culminating in Circus Devils, alongside fellow Ohioan, Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices. In 2002, Todd began producing albums with Pollard, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including fellow Hidden Shoal artist Kramies.  While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4-track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock, as showcased in his prolific work with Circus Devils.  In 2012, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, titled <em>Medicine Show</em>, followed by <em>Impossible Cities</em> (2014) and <em>Tristes Tropiques</em> (2015), each of which has been accompanied by a companion EP.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Todd Tobias News\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/news/todd-tobias-news/\"><strong>More News</strong></a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a title=\"Todd Tobias Reviews\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/reviews/todd-tobias-reviews/\">More Reviews</a></strong></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a title=\"Impossible Cities Press Release\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/todd-tobias/Impossible-Cities-1000px.jpg\"><em>Impossible Cities</em> Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"><em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/cM3660BT5b8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/9-FW6zx6DLs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/PaVtMYElhXo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Ed0Hfh4qs-Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','publish','open','closed','','todd-tobias','','','2016-09-06 21:34:06','2016-09-06 13:34:06','',0,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/?post_type=project&#038;p=9263',0,'project','',0),(14827,1,'2016-09-02 11:50:30','2016-09-02 03:50:30','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"170\" height=\"230\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong>\r\n\r\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album <em>Medicine Show</em>. His music is defiantly unique and vividly realised across his evolving discography.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"https://plus.google.com/+ToddTobiasInfo\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a href=\"https://geo.itunes.apple.com/au/artist/todd-tobias/id70698052?uo=6&amp;at=11lRii\" target=\"itunes_store\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12412\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/badge_itunes-sm.png\" alt=\"iTunes\" width=\"44\" height=\"15\" /></a>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h4>Tristes Tropiques</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=41056375/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tristes-tropiques\">TRISTES TROPIQUES by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nJune 2015\r\n\r\nWhile best known for producing Guided By Voices and collaborating with Robert Pollard (Circus Devils, Ricked Wicky and Pollard’s solo material), Tobias has also crafted an innovative body of instrumental solo work, of which <em>Tristes Tropique</em> is the latest chapter. Hypnotic and melancholy-soaked, <em>Tristes Tropique</em> presents a luxuriant yet downcast tone, drawing comparisons to the eerie, transportive work of The Fun Years, The Gentleman Losers and Ian William Craig. This is no better exemplified than on single ‘Suvarnabhumi’, in which sparse, yearning guitar figures are subsumed by ethereal synths. Sinister yet alluring, these musical environments throb with sensuality, danger and promise. <em>Tristes Tropique</em> takes its title from the book by French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss, which literally translates as “sad tropics”. Tobias sought to evoke far-flung places where indigenous cultures have either vanished or are in the process of being swallowed up by an ever-expanding global civilization.\r\n<h4>Moorea</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 373px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1001796694/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/moorea\">MOOREA by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nJune 2015\r\n\r\n<em>Moorea</em> is the stunning companion EP to Todd Tobias\'s brilliant 2015 album <em>Tristes Tropiques</em>.\r\n<h4>Impossible Cities</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=271738062/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-cities\">IMPOSSIBLE CITIES by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nOctober 2014\r\n\r\n<em>Impossible Cities</em> is the latest visionary chapter in Todd Tobias’s ongoing exploration of rock’s darkest and most hypnotic realms. Inspired by the Ital Calvino book <em>Invisible Cities</em>, each track is named after an imaginary city, from the glistening exoticism of ‘Lamura’ via the seething murk of ‘Gorgum Reeth’ and ‘Smazbaal’ to the eerie, shimmering grandeur of ‘Akrova’, Tobias’s latest musical universe is vividly rendered, scary, beautiful and utterly immersive. The album comes with the companion mini-album <em>Impossible Cities 2</em>, which comprises 10 haunting vignettes.\r\n<h4>Impossible Cities 2</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1146527875/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-cities-2-ep\">Impossible Cities 2 (EP) by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nOctober 2014\r\n\r\n<em>Impossible Cities 2, </em>comprising 10 haunting vignettes, is the free companion mini-album to Todd Tobias\'s <em>Impossible Cities.</em>\r\n<h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1340px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe>\r\nMay 2013\r\n\r\n<i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias. The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen. Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.\r\n<h4>Night Above Ground</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3025667975/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/night-above-ground-ep\">NIGHT ABOVE GROUND ep by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nNovember 2012\r\n\r\nIn contrast to <em>Medicine Show</em>\'s serpentine construction and intense atmosphere, <em>Night Above Ground</em> is more airy, accessible and playful, bursting into vivid life with the crowd chatter and tumbling noisescapes of ‘Invocation’. Immersive, hypnotic tracks such as ‘Crystal Palace People’ alternate with brief, impressionistic pieces such as ‘Workshop of Spears’ and ‘Ashes and Cream’. The EP’s 17 minutes flow past your third eye like a Dali-esque dream.\r\n<h4>Medicine Show</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 670px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nApril 2012\r\n\r\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive. From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where he played in a string of bands, culminating in Circus Devils, alongside fellow Ohioan, Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices. In 2002, Todd began producing albums with Pollard, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including fellow Hidden Shoal artist Kramies.  While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4-track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock, as showcased in his prolific work with Circus Devils.  In 2012, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, titled <em>Medicine Show</em>, followed by <em>Impossible Cities</em> (2014) and <em>Tristes Tropiques</em> (2015), each of which has been accompanied by a companion EP.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Todd Tobias News\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/news/todd-tobias-news/\"><strong>More News</strong></a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a title=\"Todd Tobias Reviews\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/reviews/todd-tobias-reviews/\">More Reviews</a></strong></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a title=\"Impossible Cities Press Release\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/todd-tobias/Impossible-Cities-1000px.jpg\"><em>Impossible Cities</em> Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"><em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/9-FW6zx6DLs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/PaVtMYElhXo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Ed0Hfh4qs-Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','closed','closed','','9263-revision-v1','','','2016-09-02 11:50:30','2016-09-02 03:50:30','',9263,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(12217,1,'2015-04-09 09:48:14','2015-04-09 01:48:14','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong> After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"https://plus.google.com/+ToddTobiasInfo\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Impossible Cities</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=271738062/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-cities\">IMPOSSIBLE CITIES by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nOctober 2014\r\n\r\n<em>Impossible Cities</em> is the latest visionary chapter in Todd Tobias’s ongoing exploration of rock’s darkest and most hypnotic realms. Inspired by the Ital Calvino book <em>Invisible Cities</em>, each track is named after an imaginary city, from the glistening exoticism of ‘Lamura’ via the seething murk of ‘Gorgum Reeth’ and ‘Smazbaal’ to the eerie, shimmering grandeur of ‘Akrova’, Tobias’s latest musical universe is vividly rendered, scary, beautiful and utterly immersive. The album comes with the companion mini-album <em>Impossible Cities 2</em>, which comprises 10 haunting vignettes.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Impossible Cities 2</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1146527875/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-cities-2-ep\">Impossible Cities 2 (EP) by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nOctober 2014\r\n\r\n<em>Impossible Cities 2, </em>comprising 10 haunting vignettes, is the free companion mini-album to Todd Tobias\'s <em>Impossible Cities.</em>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1340px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe>\r\nMay 2013\r\n<div></div>\r\n<i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias. The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen. Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h4>Night Above Ground</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3025667975/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/night-above-ground-ep\">NIGHT ABOVE GROUND ep by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nNovember 2012\r\n<div></div>\r\nIn contrast to <em>Medicine Show</em>\'s serpentine construction and intense atmosphere, <em>Night Above Ground</em> is more airy, accessible and playful, bursting into vivid life with the crowd chatter and tumbling noisescapes of ‘Invocation’. Immersive, hypnotic tracks such as ‘Crystal Palace People’ alternate with brief, impressionistic pieces such as ‘Workshop of Spears’ and ‘Ashes and Cream’. The EP’s 17 minutes flow past your third eye like a Dali-esque dream.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h4>Medicine Show</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 670px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nApril 2012\r\n<div></div>\r\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive. From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).\r\n\r\nTodd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Todd Tobias News\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/news/todd-tobias-news/\"><strong>More News</strong></a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a title=\"Todd Tobias Reviews\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/reviews/todd-tobias-reviews/\">More Reviews</a></strong></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a title=\"Impossible Cities Press Release\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/todd-tobias/Impossible-Cities-1000px.jpg\"><em>Impossible Cities</em> Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"><em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/PaVtMYElhXo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Ed0Hfh4qs-Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','closed','closed','','9263-revision-v1','','','2015-04-09 09:48:14','2015-04-09 01:48:14','',9263,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9265,1,'2014-07-08 13:54:23','2014-07-08 13:54:23','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <em>Medicine Show</em> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>      <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\nCreated from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3><p>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2><p>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a><br /> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a><br /> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a><br /> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a><br /> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n \r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"8222,8221,8220,8219\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nAntonymes music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 13:54:23','2014-07-08 13:54:23','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9264,1,'2014-07-08 13:26:18','2014-07-08 13:26:18','','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','todd-tobias-1-adjusted','','','2014-07-08 13:26:18','2014-07-08 13:26:18','',9263,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9266,1,'2014-07-08 13:55:45','2014-07-08 13:55:45','','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','todd_tobias_1-2','','','2014-07-08 13:55:45','2014-07-08 13:55:45','',9263,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd_Tobias_1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9267,1,'2014-07-08 13:55:50','2014-07-08 13:55:50','','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','todd_tobias_2-2','','','2014-07-08 13:55:50','2014-07-08 13:55:50','',9263,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd_Tobias_2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9268,1,'2014-07-08 13:55:58','2014-07-08 13:55:58','','Todd Tobias & Robert Pollard','','inherit','open','open','','todd_tobias_and_robert_pollard-2','','','2014-07-08 13:55:58','2014-07-08 13:55:58','',9263,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd_Tobias_and_Robert_Pollard.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9269,1,'2016-09-02 11:18:31','2016-09-02 03:18:31','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\n<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"170\" height=\"230\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong>\n\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album <em>Medicine Show</em>. His music is defiantly unique and vividly realised across his evolving discography.\n\n<a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"https://plus.google.com/+ToddTobiasInfo\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a href=\"https://geo.itunes.apple.com/au/artist/todd-tobias/id70698052?uo=6&amp;at=11lRii\" target=\"itunes_store\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12412\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/badge_itunes-sm.png\" alt=\"iTunes\" width=\"44\" height=\"15\" /></a>\n\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\n<h3>Discography</h3>\n&nbsp;\n<h4>Tristes Tropiques</h4>\n<div></div>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=41056375/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tristes-tropiques\">TRISTES TROPIQUES by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\nJune 2015\n\nWhile best known for producing Guided By Voices and collaborating with Robert Pollard (Circus Devils, Ricked Wicky and Pollard’s solo material), Tobias has also crafted an innovative body of instrumental solo work, of which <em>Tristes Tropique</em> is the latest chapter. Hypnotic and melancholy-soaked, <em>Tristes Tropique</em> presents a luxuriant yet downcast tone, drawing comparisons to the eerie, transportive work of The Fun Years, The Gentleman Losers and Ian William Craig. This is no better exemplified than on single ‘Suvarnabhumi’, in which sparse, yearning guitar figures are subsumed by ethereal synths. Sinister yet alluring, these musical environments throb with sensuality, danger and promise. <em>Tristes Tropique</em> takes its title from the book by French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss, which literally translates as “sad tropics”. Tobias sought to evoke far-flung places where indigenous cultures have either vanished or are in the process of being swallowed up by an ever-expanding global civilization.\n<h4>Moorea</h4>\n<div></div>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 373px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1001796694/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/moorea\">MOOREA by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\nJune 2015\n\n<em>Moorea</em> is the stunning companion EP to Todd Tobias\'s brilliant 2015 album <em>Tristes Tropiques</em>.\n<h4>Impossible Cities</h4>\n<div></div>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=271738062/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-cities\">IMPOSSIBLE CITIES by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\nOctober 2014\n\n<em>Impossible Cities</em> is the latest visionary chapter in Todd Tobias’s ongoing exploration of rock’s darkest and most hypnotic realms. Inspired by the Ital Calvino book <em>Invisible Cities</em>, each track is named after an imaginary city, from the glistening exoticism of ‘Lamura’ via the seething murk of ‘Gorgum Reeth’ and ‘Smazbaal’ to the eerie, shimmering grandeur of ‘Akrova’, Tobias’s latest musical universe is vividly rendered, scary, beautiful and utterly immersive. The album comes with the companion mini-album <em>Impossible Cities 2</em>, which comprises 10 haunting vignettes.\n<h4>Impossible Cities 2</h4>\n<div></div>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1146527875/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-cities-2-ep\">Impossible Cities 2 (EP) by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\nOctober 2014\n\n<em>Impossible Cities 2, </em>comprising 10 haunting vignettes, is the free companion mini-album to Todd Tobias\'s <em>Impossible Cities.</em>\n<h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4>\n<div></div>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1340px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe>\nMay 2013\n\n<i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias. The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen. Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.\n<h4>Night Above Ground</h4>\n<div></div>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3025667975/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/night-above-ground-ep\">NIGHT ABOVE GROUND ep by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\nNovember 2012\n\nIn contrast to <em>Medicine Show</em>\'s serpentine construction and intense atmosphere, <em>Night Above Ground</em> is more airy, accessible and playful, bursting into vivid life with the crowd chatter and tumbling noisescapes of ‘Invocation’. Immersive, hypnotic tracks such as ‘Crystal Palace People’ alternate with brief, impressionistic pieces such as ‘Workshop of Spears’ and ‘Ashes and Cream’. The EP’s 17 minutes flow past your third eye like a Dali-esque dream.\n<h4>Medicine Show</h4>\n<div></div>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 670px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\nApril 2012\n\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive. From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.\n\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\n<h3>Biography</h3>\nTodd Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where he played in a string of bands, culminating in Circus Devils, alongside fellow Ohioan, Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices. In 2002, Todd began producing albums with Pollard, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including fellow Hidden Shoal artist Kramies.  While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4-track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock, as showcased in his prolific work with Circus Devils.  In 2012, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, titled <em>Medicine Show</em>, followed by <em>Impossible Cities</em> (2014) and <em>Tristes Tropiques</em> (2015), each of which has been accompanied by a companion EP.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\n<h3>News</h3>\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Todd Tobias News\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/news/todd-tobias-news/\"><strong>More News</strong></a></p>\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a title=\"Todd Tobias Reviews\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/reviews/todd-tobias-reviews/\">More Reviews</a></strong></p>\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\n<a title=\"Impossible Cities Press Release\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/todd-tobias/Impossible-Cities-1000px.jpg\"><em>Impossible Cities</em> Album Release</a>\n\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"><em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a>\n\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a>\n\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a>\n\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a>\n\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a>\n\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]\n\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/9-FW6zx6DLs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/PaVtMYElhXo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Ed0Hfh4qs-Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\nTodd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\n\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-autosave-v1','','','2016-09-02 11:18:31','2016-09-02 03:18:31','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9275,1,'2014-07-08 14:59:26','2014-07-08 14:59:26','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"201\" height=\"272\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut album is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]<p><br /> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 14:59:26','2014-07-08 14:59:26','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9273,1,'2014-07-08 14:49:55','2014-07-08 14:49:55','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"201\" height=\"272\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong>\r\n\r\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <em>Medicine Show</em> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.\r\n\r\n<strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe></p>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe></p>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.</p>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe></p>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p>\r\n<p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]<br />\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 14:49:55','2014-07-08 14:49:55','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9270,1,'2014-07-08 14:21:40','2014-07-08 14:21:40','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <em>Medicine Show</em> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>      <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a><br /> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a><br /> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a><br /> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a><br /> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p><p>[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n\r\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 14:21:40','2014-07-08 14:21:40','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9271,1,'2014-07-08 14:24:48','2014-07-08 14:24:48','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong>\r\n\r\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <em>Medicine Show</em> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.\r\n\r\n<strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>      <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\nCreated from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).\r\n\r\nTodd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 14:24:48','2014-07-08 14:24:48','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9284,1,'2014-07-09 01:53:47','2014-07-09 01:53:47','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 520px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias.</p><p>The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen.</p><p>Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Medicine Show</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 520px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive.</p><p>From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 01:53:47','2014-07-09 01:53:47','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9272,1,'2014-07-08 14:45:39','2014-07-08 14:45:39','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p>\r\n<p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <em>Medicine Show</em> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p>\r\n<p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>      <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p>\r\n<p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a><br />\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a><br />\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a><br />\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a><br />\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 14:45:39','2014-07-08 14:45:39','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9274,1,'2014-07-08 14:50:57','2014-07-08 14:50:57','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/woodensingle_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"Kramies - \'The Wooden Heart\' (Single)\" width=\"209\" height=\"209\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of ‘<a title=\"\'The Wooden Heart\' Single\" href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/releases\">The Wooden Heart</a>’, the title track from the expansive new EP by dream-pop singer-songwriter <a title=\"Kramies\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a> (out 17th Oct. 2013). Grab the track for free <a title=\"\'The Wooden Heart\' Single\" href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/releases\">here</a> or stream the track below.\r\n\r\nProduced by <a title=\"Todd Tobias\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a> (Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard, Circus Devils), ‘The Wooden Heart’ is a kaleidoscopic introduction to Kramies’ beautiful new release. The song’s windswept grandeur is married to an emotional directness that demands your attention and doesn’t let go. Akin to The Moody Blues’ classic ‘Nights In White Satin’, ‘The Wooden Heart’ renders an immersive, widescreen pop vista that takes your breath away.\r\n\r\nIn addition to Todd Tobias’s production (on ‘The Beginning’, ‘The Wooden Heart’, ‘Upon The Northern Isles’ and ‘The Ending’), <em>The Wooden Heart</em> EP also features the production and instrumental talents of Jason Lytle of Grandaddy fame (on ‘Sea Otter Cottage’ and ‘Clocks Were All Broken’). Rounded out by the beautiful artwork of French photographer <a href=\"http://photographique.fr/\" target=\"_blank\">Jérôme Sevrette</a>, <em>The Wooden Heart</em> EP is a lovingly constructed work of art.\r\n\r\nRead a full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Kramies-The_Wooden_Heart(Single).pdf\">here</a>.\r\n\r\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/kramies-the-wooden-heart[/soundcloud]','Stunning New Single from Kramies\' Forthcoming EP - Free Download','','inherit','open','open','','6891-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 14:50:57','2014-07-08 14:50:57','',6891,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/6891-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9285,1,'2014-07-09 01:56:00','2014-07-09 01:56:00','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 800px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias.</p><p>The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen.</p><p>Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Medicine Show</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 600px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive.</p><p>From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 01:56:00','2014-07-09 01:56:00','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9276,1,'2014-07-08 15:03:35','2014-07-08 15:03:35','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 15:03:35','2014-07-08 15:03:35','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9277,1,'2014-07-08 21:58:36','2014-07-08 21:58:36','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong>\r\n\r\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.\r\n\r\n<strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\nCreated from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).\r\n\r\nTodd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 21:58:36','2014-07-08 21:58:36','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9278,1,'2014-07-08 22:20:06','2014-07-08 22:20:06','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Umpire</h1>\r\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9304\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire-Band-Photo-350px.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"350\" height=\"306\" /><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong>\r\n\r\nUmpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/umpire/id310824909?uo=4&at=11lRii\" target=\"itunes_store\" style=\"display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;background:url(https://linkmaker.itunes.apple.com/htmlResources/assets//images/web/linkmaker/badge_itunes-sm.png) no-repeat;width:45px;height:15px;@media only screen{background-image:url(https://linkmaker.itunes.apple.com/htmlResources/assets//images/web/linkmaker/badge_itunes-sm.svg);}\"></a>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h4>Now We\'re Active</h4>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1405546206/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/now-were-active\">Now We\'re Active by Umpire</a></iframe>\r\nJuly 2011\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is the debut album by Perth’s (Australia) widescreen indie-rock craftsmen Umpire. On <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span>, Umpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From lead single ‘Green Light District’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming. Immaculately produced by bassist Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, the album’s ten tracks bring progressive rock influences, indie-pop sensibilities and shades of math-rock into explosive collision, then shape them into songs that are at once epic and intimate. After the last song fades you’re left with a lump in your throat and admiration of how Umpire’s songcraft and sonics are so consistently elegant, melodic and widescreen. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is much more than a collection of tracks – it’s an album that blossoms beautifully on repeat plays.\r\n<h4></h4>\r\n<h4>Umpire</h4>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 373px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2990620748/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/umpire\">Umpire by Umpire</a></iframe>\r\nNovember 2009\r\n\r\nUmpire\'s brilliant self-titled debut release, featuring the standout track \'Streamers\'. \'Streamers\' received rave reviews and widespread high-rotation airplay on both Triple J and community radio, as well as taking out the grand prize in the WAM Song of the Year in 2009. The <em>Umpire</em> EP presented a beautiful progression from three of the band members\' amazing work as Mukaizake, while moving into more accessible yet equally complex songcraft.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nBased in Perth, Western Australia, Umpire was formed in 2006 as a studio songwriting and recording project, where Simon Struthers, Geoff Symons and Michael Lake had the opportunity to utilise the studio as an instrument, developing their songs without the pressures of playing as live band. The band released their first self-titled EP in 2009, which featured the standout track ‘Streamers’. ‘Streamers’ received rave reviews and achieved widespread high rotation airplay on both Triple J and community radio, as well as taking out the grand prize in the WAM Song of the Year in 2009.\r\n\r\nThe founding members of Umpire (Geoff Symons, Simon Struthers and Michael Lake) have a long history in the Perth music scene, playing in many seminal progressive indie-rock bands, including Adam Said Galore, O and Hidden Shoal’s very own Mukaizake, so it was a natural progression for the band to develop their live show by adding drummer, Josh Watkins. Performing the songs live has allowed the band to tour Australia and play with many of their musical heroes, including Stephen Malkmus, Built to Spill, Paul Dempsey, The Jezebels, Sugar Army, Jebediah, Love Of Diagrams, Dan Kelly, Bob Log III and Tame Impala.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=umpire-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=umpire-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Supply_Chins_Single.pdf\">‘Supply Chins’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Now_Were_Active.pdf\"><em>Now We’re Active</em> Australian Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Green_Light_District.pdf\">‘Green Light District’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"9295,9296,9297\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/w8Ii0yu1UjU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/APlcOr6r8qE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nUmpire\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','publish','open','open','','umpire','','','2015-02-03 17:54:41','2015-02-03 09:54:41','',0,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/?post_type=project&#038;p=9278',0,'project','',0),(9299,1,'2014-07-09 06:15:25','2014-07-09 06:15:25','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Umpire</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9280\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" /></a><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong></p><p>Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009. </p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Now We\'re Active</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1405546206/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/now-were-active\">Now We\'re Active by Umpire</a></iframe><br />July 2011</p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is the debut album by Perth’s (Australia) widescreen indie-rock craftsmen Umpire. On <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span>, Umpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From lead single ‘Green Light District’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming.</p><p>Immaculately produced by bassist Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, the album’s ten tracks bring progressive rock influences, indie-pop sensibilities and shades of math-rock into explosive collision, then shape them into songs that are at once epic and intimate. After the last song fades you’re left with a lump in your throat and admiration of how Umpire’s songcraft and sonics are so consistently elegant, melodic and widescreen. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is much more than a collection of tracks – it’s an album that blossoms beautifully on repeat plays.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Based in Perth, Western Australia, Umpire was formed in 2006 as a studio songwriting and recording project, where Simon Struthers, Geoff Symons and Michael Lake had the opportunity to utilise the studio as an instrument, developing their songs without the pressures of playing as live band. The band released their first self-titled EP in 2009, which featured the standout track ‘Streamers’. ‘Streamers’ received rave reviews and achieved widespread high rotation airplay on both Triple J and community radio, as well as taking out the grand prize in the WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p><p>The founding members of Umpire (Geoff Symons, Simon Struthers and Michael Lake) have a long history in the Perth music scene, playing in many seminal progressive indie-rock bands, including Adam Said Galore, O and Hidden Shoal’s very own Mukaizake, so it was a natural progression for the band to develop their live show by adding drummer, Josh Watkins. Performing the songs live has allowed the band to tour Australia and play with many of their musical heroes, including Stephen Malkmus, Built to Spill, Paul Dempsey, The Jezebels, Sugar Army, Jebediah, Love Of Diagrams, Dan Kelly, Bob Log III and Tame Impala.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=umpire-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=umpire-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Supply_Chins_Single.pdf\">‘Supply Chins’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Now_Were_Active.pdf\"><em>Now We’re Active</em> Australian Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Green_Light_District.pdf\">‘Green Light District’ Single Release</a></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9295,9296,9297\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/w8Ii0yu1UjU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/APlcOr6r8qE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Umpire\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 06:15:25','2014-07-09 06:15:25','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9298,1,'2014-07-09 06:09:09','2014-07-09 06:09:09','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Umpire</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9280\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" /></a><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong></p><p>Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009. Their debut album <em>Now We’re Active</em> built upon the band’s sonic and songwriting mastery to produce what was one of the most compelling releases of 2011.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Now We\'re Active</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1405546206/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/now-were-active\">Now We\'re Active by Umpire</a></iframe><br />July 2011</p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is the debut album by Perth’s (Australia) widescreen indie-rock craftsmen Umpire. On <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span>, Umpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From lead single ‘Green Light District’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming.</p><p>Immaculately produced by bassist Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, the album’s ten tracks bring progressive rock influences, indie-pop sensibilities and shades of math-rock into explosive collision, then shape them into songs that are at once epic and intimate. After the last song fades you’re left with a lump in your throat and admiration of how Umpire’s songcraft and sonics are so consistently elegant, melodic and widescreen. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is much more than a collection of tracks – it’s an album that blossoms beautifully on repeat plays.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Based in Perth, Western Australia, Umpire was formed in 2006 as a studio songwriting and recording project, where Simon Struthers, Geoff Symons and Michael Lake had the opportunity to utilise the studio as an instrument, developing their songs without the pressures of playing as live band. The band released their first self-titled EP in 2009, which featured the standout track ‘Streamers’. ‘Streamers’ received rave reviews and achieved widespread high rotation airplay on both Triple J and community radio, as well as taking out the grand prize in the WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p><p>The founding members of Umpire (Geoff Symons, Simon Struthers and Michael Lake) have a long history in the Perth music scene, playing in many seminal progressive indie-rock bands, including Adam Said Galore, O and Hidden Shoal’s very own Mukaizake, so it was a natural progression for the band to develop their live show by adding drummer, Josh Watkins. Performing the songs live has allowed the band to tour Australia and play with many of their musical heroes, including Stephen Malkmus, Built to Spill, Paul Dempsey, The Jezebels, Sugar Army, Jebediah, Love Of Diagrams, Dan Kelly, Bob Log III and Tame Impala.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3><p>[catlist name=umpire-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2><p>[catlist name=umpire-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Supply_Chins_Single.pdf\">‘Supply Chins’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Now_Were_Active.pdf\"><em>Now We’re Active</em> Australian Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Green_Light_District.pdf\">‘Green Light District’ Single Release</a></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p><p>[gallery ids=\"9295,9296,9297\"]</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/w8Ii0yu1UjU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/APlcOr6r8qE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Umpire\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 06:09:09','2014-07-09 06:09:09','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9293,1,'2014-07-09 05:11:07','2014-07-09 05:11:07','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Umpire</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9280\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" /></a><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong></p><p>Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009. Their debut album <em>Now We’re Active</em> built upon the band’s sonic and songwriting mastery to produce what was one of the most compelling releases of 2011.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Now We\'re Active</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1405546206/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/now-were-active\">Now We&#39;re Active by Umpire</a></iframe><br />July 2011</p><div> </div><p><br /><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is the debut album by Perth’s (Australia) widescreen indie-rock craftsmen Umpire. On <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span>, Umpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From lead single ‘Green Light District’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming. <br /><br />Immaculately produced by bassist Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, the album’s ten tracks bring progressive rock influences, indie-pop sensibilities and shades of math-rock into explosive collision, then shape them into songs that are at once epic and intimate. After the last song fades you’re left with a lump in your throat and admiration of how Umpire’s songcraft and sonics are so consistently elegant, melodic and widescreen. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is much more than a collection of tracks – it’s an album that blossoms beautifully on repeat plays.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Antonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming. Debut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011. [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=antonymes-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=antonymes-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">EP </a> <em><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf\">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\">‘Endlessly’ Single</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf\">Antonymes Signing</a> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"8222,8221,8220,8219\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> <iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Antonymes music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away. [/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 05:11:07','2014-07-09 05:11:07','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9281,1,'2014-07-08 22:34:14','2014-07-08 22:34:14','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Umpire</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9280\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" /></a><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong></p><p>Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009. Their debut album <em>Now We’re Active</em> built upon the band’s sonic and songwriting mastery to produce what was one of the most compelling releases of 2011.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>    <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Antonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming. Debut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011. [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=antonymes-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=antonymes-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">EP </a> <em><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf\">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\">‘Endlessly’ Single</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf\">Antonymes Signing</a> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"8222,8221,8220,8219\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> <iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Antonymes music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away. [/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 22:34:14','2014-07-08 22:34:14','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9279,1,'2014-07-08 22:20:06','2014-07-08 22:20:06','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Antonymes</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-6978\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Antonymes\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" /></a><em>“sound sketches of enormous, if fragile, beauty”</em> –<strong> The Silent Ballet </strong> The music of Antonymes emerges from the adjustments and erasures of ambient and the pace and persistence of minimalism; from the serenity and austerity of Morton Feldman and the profound prettiness of Harold Budd; from the relationship between continuity and repetition; from secrecy, quietness and pause; from thought, from emptiness; from where it is set and where it is setting off to. At the same time definite and a ghostly impression, Antonymes floats free of fixed points while anxiously staying in sight of genres, movements, scenes, connections, contexts and innovations that have piled up and broken down around it. <strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Antonymes/108567235841143?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8763\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/Antonymes\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8766\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/antonymes\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8764\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.antonymes.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8767\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\nCreated from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nAntonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming. Debut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011. [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">EP </a> <em><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf\">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\">‘Endlessly’ Single</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf\">Antonymes Signing</a> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"8222,8221,8220,8219\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> <iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nAntonymes music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away. [/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 22:20:06','2014-07-08 22:20:06','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9280,1,'2014-07-08 22:29:10','2014-07-08 22:29:10','','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','umpire_1','','','2014-07-08 22:29:10','2014-07-08 22:29:10','',9278,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9282,1,'2014-07-08 22:35:56','2014-07-08 22:35:56','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Umpire</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9280\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" /></a><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong></p><p>Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009. Their debut album <em>Now We’re Active</em> built upon the band’s sonic and songwriting mastery to produce what was one of the most compelling releases of 2011.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Antonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming. Debut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011. [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=antonymes-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=antonymes-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">EP </a> <em><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf\">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\">‘Endlessly’ Single</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf\">Antonymes Signing</a> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"8222,8221,8220,8219\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> <iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Antonymes music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away. [/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-08 22:35:56','2014-07-08 22:35:56','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9283,1,'2014-07-09 01:45:21','2014-07-09 01:45:21','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Umpire</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9280\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" /></a><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong>\r\n\r\nUmpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009. Their debut album <em>Now We’re Active</em> built upon the band’s sonic and songwriting mastery to produce what was one of the most compelling releases of 2011.\r\n\r\n<strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\nCreated from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nAntonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming. Debut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011. [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">EP </a> <em><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf\">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\">‘Endlessly’ Single</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf\">Antonymes Signing</a> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"8222,8221,8220,8219\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> <iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nAntonymes music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away. [/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 01:45:21','2014-07-09 01:45:21','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9286,1,'2014-07-09 03:16:21','2014-07-09 03:16:21','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1000px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias.</p><p>The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen.</p><p>Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Medicine Show</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 680px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive.</p><p>From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 03:16:21','2014-07-09 03:16:21','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9287,1,'2014-07-09 03:17:04','2014-07-09 03:17:04','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1200px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias.</p><p>The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen.</p><p>Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Medicine Show</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 660px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive.</p><p>From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 03:17:04','2014-07-09 03:17:04','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9289,1,'2014-07-09 03:21:32','2014-07-09 03:21:32','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<p> </p><h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1300px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias.</p><p>The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen.</p><p>Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Medicine Show</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 670px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive.</p><p>From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 03:21:32','2014-07-09 03:21:32','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9288,1,'2014-07-09 03:18:16','2014-07-09 03:18:16','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<br />\r\n<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p>\r\n<p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p>\r\n<p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<p> </p><h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1400px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias.</p><p>The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen.</p><p>Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Medicine Show</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 670px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive.</p><p>From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p>\r\n<p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<br />\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<br />\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 03:18:16','2014-07-09 03:18:16','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9290,1,'2014-07-09 03:30:33','2014-07-09 03:30:33','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<p> </p><h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1340px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias.</p><p>The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen.</p><p>Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Medicine Show</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 670px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive.</p><p>From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 03:30:33','2014-07-09 03:30:33','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9292,1,'2014-07-09 04:05:29','2014-07-09 04:05:29','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong>\r\n\r\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.\r\n\r\n<strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1340px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe>\r\nMay 2013\r\n<div></div>\r\n<i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias.\r\n\r\nThe <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen.\r\n\r\nTold from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Medicine Show</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 670px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe>\r\nApril 2012\r\n<div></div>\r\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive.\r\n\r\nFrom the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).\r\n\r\nTodd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nTodd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 04:05:29','2014-07-09 04:05:29','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9291,1,'2014-07-09 04:02:26','2014-07-09 04:02:26','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9264\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Tobias\" width=\"183\" height=\"248\" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias\' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<p> </p><h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1340px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe><br />May 2013</p><div> </div><p><i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias.</p><p>The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen.</p><p>Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Medicine Show</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 670px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show\">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe><br />April 2012</p><div> </div><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive.</p><p>From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf\"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf\">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf\">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9266,9267,9268\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Todd Tobias','','inherit','open','open','','9263-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 04:02:26','2014-07-09 04:02:26','',9263,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9294,1,'2014-11-05 21:59:51','2014-11-05 13:59:51','<p>[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]</p><h1>Umpire</h1><p><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9304\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire-Band-Photo-350px.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"350\" height=\"306\" /><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong></p><p>Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p><p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]</p><h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Now We\'re Active</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1405546206/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/now-were-active\">Now We\'re Active by Umpire</a></iframe><br /> July 2011</p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is the debut album by Perth’s (Australia) widescreen indie-rock craftsmen Umpire. On <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span>, Umpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From lead single ‘Green Light District’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming.</p><p>Immaculately produced by bassist Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, the album’s ten tracks bring progressive rock influences, indie-pop sensibilities and shades of math-rock into explosive collision, then shape them into songs that are at once epic and intimate. After the last song fades you’re left with a lump in your throat and admiration of how Umpire’s songcraft and sonics are so consistently elegant, melodic and widescreen. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is much more than a collection of tracks – it’s an album that blossoms beautifully on repeat plays.</p><p> </p><p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]</p><h3>Biography</h3><p>Based in Perth, Western Australia, Umpire was formed in 2006 as a studio songwriting and recording project, where Simon Struthers, Geoff Symons and Michael Lake had the opportunity to utilise the studio as an instrument, developing their songs without the pressures of playing as live band. The band released their first self-titled EP in 2009, which featured the standout track ‘Streamers’. ‘Streamers’ received rave reviews and achieved widespread high rotation airplay on both Triple J and community radio, as well as taking out the grand prize in the WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p><p>The founding members of Umpire (Geoff Symons, Simon Struthers and Michael Lake) have a long history in the Perth music scene, playing in many seminal progressive indie-rock bands, including Adam Said Galore, O and Hidden Shoal’s very own Mukaizake, so it was a natural progression for the band to develop their live show by adding drummer, Josh Watkins. Performing the songs live has allowed the band to tour Australia and play with many of their musical heroes, including Stephen Malkmus, Built to Spill, Paul Dempsey, The Jezebels, Sugar Army, Jebediah, Love Of Diagrams, Dan Kelly, Bob Log III and Tame Impala.</p><p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]</p><h3>News</h3><p>[catlist name=umpire-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]</p><h2>Reviews</h2><p>[catlist name=umpire-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]</p><h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Supply_Chins_Single.pdf\">‘Supply Chins’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Now_Were_Active.pdf\"><em>Now We’re Active</em> Australian Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Green_Light_District.pdf\">‘Green Light District’ Single Release</a></p><p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]</p><h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p><div class=\"wpview-wrap wpview-type-gallery\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-wpview-text=\"%5Bgallery%20ids%3D%229295%2C9296%2C9297%22%5D\" data-wpview-type=\"gallery\"><div class=\"toolbar\"> </div><div class=\"gallery gallery-columns-3\"><dl class=\"gallery-item\"><dt class=\"gallery-icon\"><img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\"></dd></dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\"><dt class=\"gallery-icon\"><img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\"></dd></dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\"><dt class=\"gallery-icon\"><img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\"></dd></dl></div><ins data-wpview-end=\"1\"></ins></div><p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]</p><h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/w8Ii0yu1UjU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/APlcOr6r8qE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]</p><h3>Licensing</h3><p>Umpire\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p><p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]</p>','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-autosave-v1','','','2014-11-05 21:59:51','2014-11-05 13:59:51','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9304,1,'2014-07-09 06:29:32','2014-07-09 06:29:32','','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','umpire-band-photo-350px','','','2014-07-09 06:29:32','2014-07-09 06:29:32','',9278,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire-Band-Photo-350px.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9295,1,'2014-07-09 05:38:18','2014-07-09 05:38:18','','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','umpire_1-2','','','2014-07-09 05:38:18','2014-07-09 05:38:18','',9278,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9296,1,'2014-07-09 05:38:27','2014-07-09 05:38:27','','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','umpire_2','','','2014-07-09 05:38:27','2014-07-09 05:38:27','',9278,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9297,1,'2014-07-09 05:38:46','2014-07-09 05:38:46','','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','umpire_3','','','2014-07-09 05:38:46','2014-07-09 05:38:46','',9278,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9300,1,'2014-07-09 06:17:21','2014-07-09 06:17:21','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Umpire</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9280\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"275\" height=\"220\" /></a><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong></p><p>Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Now We\'re Active</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1405546206/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/now-were-active\">Now We\'re Active by Umpire</a></iframe><br />July 2011</p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is the debut album by Perth’s (Australia) widescreen indie-rock craftsmen Umpire. On <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span>, Umpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From lead single ‘Green Light District’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming.</p><p>Immaculately produced by bassist Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, the album’s ten tracks bring progressive rock influences, indie-pop sensibilities and shades of math-rock into explosive collision, then shape them into songs that are at once epic and intimate. After the last song fades you’re left with a lump in your throat and admiration of how Umpire’s songcraft and sonics are so consistently elegant, melodic and widescreen. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is much more than a collection of tracks – it’s an album that blossoms beautifully on repeat plays.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Based in Perth, Western Australia, Umpire was formed in 2006 as a studio songwriting and recording project, where Simon Struthers, Geoff Symons and Michael Lake had the opportunity to utilise the studio as an instrument, developing their songs without the pressures of playing as live band. The band released their first self-titled EP in 2009, which featured the standout track ‘Streamers’. ‘Streamers’ received rave reviews and achieved widespread high rotation airplay on both Triple J and community radio, as well as taking out the grand prize in the WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p><p>The founding members of Umpire (Geoff Symons, Simon Struthers and Michael Lake) have a long history in the Perth music scene, playing in many seminal progressive indie-rock bands, including Adam Said Galore, O and Hidden Shoal’s very own Mukaizake, so it was a natural progression for the band to develop their live show by adding drummer, Josh Watkins. Performing the songs live has allowed the band to tour Australia and play with many of their musical heroes, including Stephen Malkmus, Built to Spill, Paul Dempsey, The Jezebels, Sugar Army, Jebediah, Love Of Diagrams, Dan Kelly, Bob Log III and Tame Impala.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=umpire-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=umpire-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Supply_Chins_Single.pdf\">‘Supply Chins’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Now_Were_Active.pdf\"><em>Now We’re Active</em> Australian Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Green_Light_District.pdf\">‘Green Light District’ Single Release</a></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9295,9296,9297\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/w8Ii0yu1UjU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/APlcOr6r8qE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Umpire\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 06:17:21','2014-07-09 06:17:21','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9303,1,'2014-07-09 06:27:15','2014-07-09 06:27:15','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Umpire</h1><p><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9302\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire-Band-Photo-350px.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"333\" height=\"267\" /><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong></p><p>Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Now We\'re Active</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1405546206/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/now-were-active\">Now We\'re Active by Umpire</a></iframe><br />July 2011</p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is the debut album by Perth’s (Australia) widescreen indie-rock craftsmen Umpire. On <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span>, Umpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From lead single ‘Green Light District’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming.</p><p>Immaculately produced by bassist Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, the album’s ten tracks bring progressive rock influences, indie-pop sensibilities and shades of math-rock into explosive collision, then shape them into songs that are at once epic and intimate. After the last song fades you’re left with a lump in your throat and admiration of how Umpire’s songcraft and sonics are so consistently elegant, melodic and widescreen. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is much more than a collection of tracks – it’s an album that blossoms beautifully on repeat plays.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Based in Perth, Western Australia, Umpire was formed in 2006 as a studio songwriting and recording project, where Simon Struthers, Geoff Symons and Michael Lake had the opportunity to utilise the studio as an instrument, developing their songs without the pressures of playing as live band. The band released their first self-titled EP in 2009, which featured the standout track ‘Streamers’. ‘Streamers’ received rave reviews and achieved widespread high rotation airplay on both Triple J and community radio, as well as taking out the grand prize in the WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p><p>The founding members of Umpire (Geoff Symons, Simon Struthers and Michael Lake) have a long history in the Perth music scene, playing in many seminal progressive indie-rock bands, including Adam Said Galore, O and Hidden Shoal’s very own Mukaizake, so it was a natural progression for the band to develop their live show by adding drummer, Josh Watkins. Performing the songs live has allowed the band to tour Australia and play with many of their musical heroes, including Stephen Malkmus, Built to Spill, Paul Dempsey, The Jezebels, Sugar Army, Jebediah, Love Of Diagrams, Dan Kelly, Bob Log III and Tame Impala.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=umpire-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=umpire-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Supply_Chins_Single.pdf\">‘Supply Chins’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Now_Were_Active.pdf\"><em>Now We’re Active</em> Australian Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Green_Light_District.pdf\">‘Green Light District’ Single Release</a></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9295,9296,9297\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/w8Ii0yu1UjU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p><p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/APlcOr6r8qE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Umpire\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 06:27:15','2014-07-09 06:27:15','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9301,1,'2014-07-09 06:18:17','2014-07-09 06:18:17','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Umpire</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9280\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire_1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" /></a><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong></p><p>Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<h4>Now We\'re Active</h4>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1405546206/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/now-were-active\">Now We\'re Active by Umpire</a></iframe><br />July 2011</p>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is the debut album by Perth’s (Australia) widescreen indie-rock craftsmen Umpire. On <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span>, Umpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From lead single ‘Green Light District’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming.</p>\r\n<p>Immaculately produced by bassist Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, the album’s ten tracks bring progressive rock influences, indie-pop sensibilities and shades of math-rock into explosive collision, then shape them into songs that are at once epic and intimate. After the last song fades you’re left with a lump in your throat and admiration of how Umpire’s songcraft and sonics are so consistently elegant, melodic and widescreen. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is much more than a collection of tracks – it’s an album that blossoms beautifully on repeat plays.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>Based in Perth, Western Australia, Umpire was formed in 2006 as a studio songwriting and recording project, where Simon Struthers, Geoff Symons and Michael Lake had the opportunity to utilise the studio as an instrument, developing their songs without the pressures of playing as live band. The band released their first self-titled EP in 2009, which featured the standout track ‘Streamers’. ‘Streamers’ received rave reviews and achieved widespread high rotation airplay on both Triple J and community radio, as well as taking out the grand prize in the WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p>\r\n<p>The founding members of Umpire (Geoff Symons, Simon Struthers and Michael Lake) have a long history in the Perth music scene, playing in many seminal progressive indie-rock bands, including Adam Said Galore, O and Hidden Shoal’s very own Mukaizake, so it was a natural progression for the band to develop their live show by adding drummer, Josh Watkins. Performing the songs live has allowed the band to tour Australia and play with many of their musical heroes, including Stephen Malkmus, Built to Spill, Paul Dempsey, The Jezebels, Sugar Army, Jebediah, Love Of Diagrams, Dan Kelly, Bob Log III and Tame Impala.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<br />\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=umpire-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<br />\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=umpire-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Supply_Chins_Single.pdf\">‘Supply Chins’ Single Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Now_Were_Active.pdf\"><em>Now We’re Active</em> Australian Album Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Green_Light_District.pdf\">‘Green Light District’ Single Release</a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[gallery ids=\"9295,9296,9297\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/w8Ii0yu1UjU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/APlcOr6r8qE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Umpire\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 06:18:17','2014-07-09 06:18:17','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9740,1,'2014-07-18 07:44:09','2014-07-18 07:44:09','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Umpire</h1>\r\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9304\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire-Band-Photo-350px.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"350\" height=\"306\" /><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong>\r\n\r\nUmpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009.\r\n\r\n<strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Now We\'re Active</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1405546206/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/now-were-active\">Now We\'re Active by Umpire</a></iframe>\r\nJuly 2011\r\n<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is the debut album by Perth’s (Australia) widescreen indie-rock craftsmen Umpire. On <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span>, Umpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From lead single ‘Green Light District’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming.\r\n\r\nImmaculately produced by bassist Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, the album’s ten tracks bring progressive rock influences, indie-pop sensibilities and shades of math-rock into explosive collision, then shape them into songs that are at once epic and intimate. After the last song fades you’re left with a lump in your throat and admiration of how Umpire’s songcraft and sonics are so consistently elegant, melodic and widescreen. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is much more than a collection of tracks – it’s an album that blossoms beautifully on repeat plays.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nBased in Perth, Western Australia, Umpire was formed in 2006 as a studio songwriting and recording project, where Simon Struthers, Geoff Symons and Michael Lake had the opportunity to utilise the studio as an instrument, developing their songs without the pressures of playing as live band. The band released their first self-titled EP in 2009, which featured the standout track ‘Streamers’. ‘Streamers’ received rave reviews and achieved widespread high rotation airplay on both Triple J and community radio, as well as taking out the grand prize in the WAM Song of the Year in 2009.\r\n\r\nThe founding members of Umpire (Geoff Symons, Simon Struthers and Michael Lake) have a long history in the Perth music scene, playing in many seminal progressive indie-rock bands, including Adam Said Galore, O and Hidden Shoal’s very own Mukaizake, so it was a natural progression for the band to develop their live show by adding drummer, Josh Watkins. Performing the songs live has allowed the band to tour Australia and play with many of their musical heroes, including Stephen Malkmus, Built to Spill, Paul Dempsey, The Jezebels, Sugar Army, Jebediah, Love Of Diagrams, Dan Kelly, Bob Log III and Tame Impala.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=umpire-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=umpire-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Supply_Chins_Single.pdf\">‘Supply Chins’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Now_Were_Active.pdf\"><em>Now We’re Active</em> Australian Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Green_Light_District.pdf\">‘Green Light District’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"9295,9296,9297\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/w8Ii0yu1UjU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/APlcOr6r8qE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nUmpire\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','closed','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-18 07:44:09','2014-07-18 07:44:09','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9305,1,'2014-07-09 06:29:49','2014-07-09 06:29:49','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Umpire</h1><p><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9304\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umpire-Band-Photo-350px.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire\" width=\"350\" height=\"306\" /><em>“manages to completely avoid every current trend being flogged at the moment to approach a timelessness that rewards upon repeated listens”</em> –<strong> The Vine </strong></p><p>Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen, combining sprawling rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. Australian audiences first became familiar with the band via with their debut single ‘Streamers’, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, national airplay and won WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMPIRE/33345133221?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/umpiremusic\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.umpiremusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<h4>Now We\'re Active</h4>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1405546206/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://umpire.bandcamp.com/album/now-were-active\">Now We\'re Active by Umpire</a></iframe><br />July 2011</p>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is the debut album by Perth’s (Australia) widescreen indie-rock craftsmen Umpire. On <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span>, Umpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From lead single ‘Green Light District’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming.</p>\r\n<p>Immaculately produced by bassist Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, the album’s ten tracks bring progressive rock influences, indie-pop sensibilities and shades of math-rock into explosive collision, then shape them into songs that are at once epic and intimate. After the last song fades you’re left with a lump in your throat and admiration of how Umpire’s songcraft and sonics are so consistently elegant, melodic and widescreen. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now We’re Active</span> is much more than a collection of tracks – it’s an album that blossoms beautifully on repeat plays.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>Based in Perth, Western Australia, Umpire was formed in 2006 as a studio songwriting and recording project, where Simon Struthers, Geoff Symons and Michael Lake had the opportunity to utilise the studio as an instrument, developing their songs without the pressures of playing as live band. The band released their first self-titled EP in 2009, which featured the standout track ‘Streamers’. ‘Streamers’ received rave reviews and achieved widespread high rotation airplay on both Triple J and community radio, as well as taking out the grand prize in the WAM Song of the Year in 2009.</p>\r\n<p>The founding members of Umpire (Geoff Symons, Simon Struthers and Michael Lake) have a long history in the Perth music scene, playing in many seminal progressive indie-rock bands, including Adam Said Galore, O and Hidden Shoal’s very own Mukaizake, so it was a natural progression for the band to develop their live show by adding drummer, Josh Watkins. Performing the songs live has allowed the band to tour Australia and play with many of their musical heroes, including Stephen Malkmus, Built to Spill, Paul Dempsey, The Jezebels, Sugar Army, Jebediah, Love Of Diagrams, Dan Kelly, Bob Log III and Tame Impala.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<br />\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=umpire-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<br />\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=umpire-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Supply_Chins_Single.pdf\">‘Supply Chins’ Single Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Now_Were_Active.pdf\"><em>Now We’re Active</em> Australian Album Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Green_Light_District.pdf\">‘Green Light District’ Single Release</a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[gallery ids=\"9295,9296,9297\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/w8Ii0yu1UjU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/APlcOr6r8qE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Umpire\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Umpire','','inherit','open','open','','9278-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 06:29:49','2014-07-09 06:29:49','',9278,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9278-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9782,1,'2014-07-21 13:25:02','2014-07-21 13:25:02','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Hidden Shoal Store</h1><p>You\'ve landed here because you were trying to get to the Hidden Shoal Store. Due to a number of changes we\'ve made here at Hidden Shoal, the store is no more! Instead you may purchase releases from our artists directly or find them on the usual 3rd party online stores such as iTunes, eMusic, Amazon and Google Play etc. Check the the artists profiles above for links to our artists albums.</p><p>We still offer full support for those who have made purchases from the store before it\'s closure - sales [at] hiddenshoal.com.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Hidden Shoal Store','','inherit','closed','open','','9780-revision-v1','','','2014-07-21 13:25:02','2014-07-21 13:25:02','',9780,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/9780-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9783,1,'2014-07-21 13:26:32','2014-07-21 13:26:32','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Hidden Shoal Store Closed</h1><p> </p><p>You\'ve landed here because you were trying to access the Hidden Shoal Store. Due to a number of changes we\'ve made here at Hidden Shoal, the store is no more! Instead you may purchase releases from our artists directly or find them on the usual 3rd party online stores such as iTunes, eMusic, Amazon and Google Play etc. Check the the artists profiles above for links to our artists albums.</p><p>We still offer full support for those who have made purchases from the store before it\'s closure - sales [at] hiddenshoal.com.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Hidden Shoal Store','','inherit','closed','open','','9780-autosave-v1','','','2014-07-21 13:26:32','2014-07-21 13:26:32','',9780,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/9780-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9775,1,'2014-07-20 02:57:23','0000-00-00 00:00:00','We\'ve been slowly building up our <a href=\"http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud streams</a> and <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2BB82525CCBFF47\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube Mp3 streams</a> so we\'ll drop a featured track regularly here on the blog for your delectation.\r\n\r\nFirst cab off the rank is the awesome Manual (aka Jonas Munk) remix of the Salli Lunn track \'The Invention of Steel\'. The track is lifted from the wonderful Salli Lunn remix album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=178\"><em>A Frame Of Reference</em></a> I which features remixes from the likes of Scott Solter, Markus Mehr, City of Satellites, TV Baby and Manual<em> </em>along with previously unreleased tracks.<em> </em>Its a gem so do have a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=178\">listen</a> if you\'ve not already.<em> </em>Those in the know will realise that Jonas Munk actually produced <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=148\">Heresy and Rite</a>, </em>the album that the remixed originals spring from. Jonas is also one third of the wonderful<a href=\"http://www.causasui.com/\" target=\"_blank\"> Causa Sui</a> along with Jess Kahr and Jakob Skott (Syntaks).\r\n\r\nEnjoy!\r\n\r\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/salli-lunn-the-invention-of-1[/soundcloud]\r\n<strong>Salli Lunn - \'The Invention of Steel (Manual Remix)\'</strong>','Featured Track - Salli Lunn - \'The Invention of Steel (Manual Remix)\'','','draft','closed','open','','','','','2014-07-20 02:57:23','2014-07-20 02:57:23','',0,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/?p=9775',0,'post','',0),(9770,1,'2014-07-18 09:05:52','2014-07-18 09:05:52','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<br />\r\n<h1>Antonymes</h1>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-6978\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Antonymes\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" /></a><em>“sound sketches of enormous, if fragile, beauty”</em> –<strong> The Silent Ballet </strong></p>\r\n<p>The music of Antonymes emerges from the adjustments and erasures of ambient and the pace and persistence of minimalism; from the serenity and austerity of Morton Feldman and the profound prettiness of Harold Budd; from the relationship between continuity and repetition; from secrecy, quietness and pause; from thought, from emptiness; from where it is set and where it is setting off to. At the same time definite and a ghostly impression, Antonymes floats free of fixed points while anxiously staying in sight of genres, movements, scenes, connections, contexts and innovations that have piled up and broken down around it.</p>\r\n<p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Antonymes/108567235841143?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8763\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/Antonymes\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8766\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/antonymes\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8764\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.antonymes.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8767\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe><br /> October 2011</p><div> </div><p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe><br /> May 2011</p><div> </div><p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe><br /> April 2011</p><div> </div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>Antonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming.</p>\r\n<p>Debut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">EP </a></p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf\">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\">‘Endlessly’ Single</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf\">Antonymes Signing</a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[gallery ids=\"8222,8221,8220,8219\"]<br />\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Antonymes\' music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Antonymes','','inherit','closed','open','','8572-revision-v1','','','2014-07-18 09:05:52','2014-07-18 09:05:52','',8572,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/8572-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9313,1,'2014-07-09 06:36:56','2014-07-09 06:36:56','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Toby Richardson</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9231\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Toby_Richardson_Beach-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Toby Richardson\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" /></a><em>“...this little gem arrives somewhat disheveled and scuffed, the skewed melodic terrains point to a power pop prowess scratched and splintered by a disorientating off kilter soft psyche hue...”</em> –<strong> Losing Today<br /> </strong></p><p>Toby Richardson represents an important part of Perth music history via pivotal 90’s band Mustang! who releasing the EP “Jacuzzi International Presents Mustang!” through Survival Records in 1994. His debut EP <em>Golden Days</em> is a 6 track lo-fi rock opus. With all the playful charm of Robert Pollard and the wirey choreography of Pavement, Richardson removes all pretension and carves his own special shape into the indie rock landscape.</p><p><strong>       </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>The Stones And The Rabbits</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 307px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2830910172/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tobyrichardson.bandcamp.com/album/the-stones-and-the-rabbits\">The Stones And The Rabbits by Toby Richardson</a></iframe><br /> December 2010</p><div> </div><p>‘Young Sweet Lovers’ kicks off proceedings with all of Toby Richardson’s delicious trademark ingredients: booming drums, fuzzy guitar lines and just-rolled-out-of-bed vocal delivery, married to wonderfully skewed melodicism and Richardson’s innate sense of songcraft. The lead riff is tasty enough, stumbling drunkenly through its extended coda, but the song’s apex comes with its slide guitar lines that weave woozily around fuzz bass. The title track features one of Richardson’s catchiest hooks to date, plus plenty of meandering, harmonised guitar soloing that splits the difference between Dinosaur Jr and an ether-soaked country hoe-down. The track’s disarming lack of pretense plays against Richardson’s affected take on rock as wailing guitars and driving chords quaver and bend in and out of shape. ‘Wrong Highway Road’ dials back the irreverence, soaking in its gorgeous fuzzy reflections upon a spooked-out night drive, “halfway to nowhere”. The track feels like The Doors playing with a gun to their heads. Next up, single ‘King Of All The Moves’ is like a garage band falling endlessly down a cartoon staircase. The track pays homage to dirty rock while turning it inside out and painting it with jelly, creating a soundtrack to some unimaginable ‘70s cop show filled with sequins, half-naked dancers and possibly a dolphin. ‘Managaha Island’ rounds out this addictive EP in style, tumbling and shimmying with tousle-haired insights and off-hand melodic grace.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Evergreen</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=296091253/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tobyrichardson.bandcamp.com/album/evergreen\">Evergreen by Toby Richardson</a></iframe><br /> March 2008</p><div> </div><p>With his inimitable lo-fi stylings, Richardson has produced another indie-rock gem. The album’s skewed melodicism is married to an amazing sense of songcraft that reawakens the listener to the invigorating possibilities of rock ’n’ roll. With all the playful irreverence of Robert Pollard and Pavement, <em>Evergreen</em> sees Toby laying down 10 songs of irrepressible lo-fi stadium rock. The album features wonky fist-in-the-air anthems that blend the catchy attack of The Kinks with the bluesy skronk of Captain Beefheart, through to bent pop-fuelled love songs that wind their way into your aorta like cupid’s heartworm. Richardson has managed to strip the skin from classic rock ’n’ roll, cover it in fur, jewels and barbed wire and ride it through a casino. The unbridled, irrepressible feel of this album is hard to deny.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Golden Days</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 340px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3114503890/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tobyrichardson.bandcamp.com/album/golden-days\">Golden Days by Toby Richardson</a></iframe><br /> July 2006</p><div> </div><p>Debut EP from ex Mustang guitarist Toby Richardson. Featuring the single, \'It Makes the Air Sound Better\', <em>Golden Days</em> is a lo-fi rock opus.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>The spark that started Toby Richardson’s musical journey came from the inexorable flame of the Perth rock scene. Seeing bands like The Stems, The Marigolds, Chad’s Tree, The Healers and touring acts such as Ed Kuepper and The Yard Goes On Forever in the late ’80s captured his imagination. This was a revelation of the immediate power and excitement that live rock ‘n’ roll can create – and what a great setting it provides for drinking beer.With his brother Mark playing in bands Chant and Be Happy and Grin, Toby decided to give it a crack himself. Due to the informal nature of the rock industry back then, it was almost like he’d only just busted out a few chords before he and his cronies hit the stage. Running on borrowed equipment and Austudy cheques, his first band Pool Flotation Device played three gigs, got a decent review and broke up.</p><p>Toby then joined already established band Mustang! Other band members were Chris Gorman on drums, John Henderson (later Mike Staude) on lead guitar, Chris Gorman on drums and Hamish Fitzsimmons on bass. At that time Toby and his band mates were influenced by artists such as Teenage Fanclub, Pere Ubu, Urge Overkill, Television, Big Star, Captain Beefheart and Dinosaur Jr. Mustang! soon got a decent following through art school crowds and a bit of harmless hype in local rock press. They also had some catchy tunes and plenty of volume – Toby now suffers from tinnitus as a result. Some of the venues they played were The Shenton Park, The Old Melbourne, The Grosvenor, The Firm and The Loft. Their Rock cohorts were bands such as Baked, O!, Wormfarm, Bluetile Lounge, Wooden Fische and Benji.</p><p>Of this group of bands a collective known as Jacuzzi International was formed. This was basically a good excuse to party, and an easy way to organise gigs. The name was simply derived from the enjoyable practice JI members had of sharing a jacuzzi with friends at JI parties.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=toby-richardson content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=toby-richardson-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Toby_Richardson-The_Stones_And_The_Rabbits.pdf\"><em>The Stones And The Rabbits </em>EP Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Toby_Richardson_Evergreen.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Evergreen Album Release </a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_18th_July.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Golden Days</em> EP Release</a>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9235,9236,9234\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p>No videos yet, sorry!</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Toby Richardson\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Toby Richardson','','inherit','open','open','','9211-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 06:36:56','2014-07-09 06:36:56','',9211,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9211-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9314,1,'2014-07-09 06:40:52','2014-07-09 06:40:52','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Tangled Star</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9196\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/T-Star_Band_Photo1-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Tangled Star\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" /></a><em>“<em>something that ripples, radiates and blossoms amid a dressage of shimmering keys and softly burnt riff cascades which had us much in mind of Hefner shimmying with the Clientele at times.</em>”</em> –<strong> Losing Today<br /> </strong></p><p>Distilling elements of indie rock and alt country married with Craig Hallsworth’s wonderful dust and liquor coated vocals and twisting lyrics, Tangled Star weaves their own magic place. Through the musics exultant shifts and wandering detours the band manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4269735860/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\">Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br />June 2013</p><div> </div><p><em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> sees Craig Hallsworth’s Tangled Star project shift gears while continuing to distill the inimitable songcraft Hallsworth is so well known for. <em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> is, in typically contrarian fashion, their least bucolic offering yet, blending more driving power-pop flavours into their distinctive soup of song. Hallsworth’s wonderful dust-and-liquor-coated vocals and twisting lyrics combine with exultant shifts and melodic detours allowing the music to make once familiar territory somehow foreign and offset.</p><p>Tracks such as ‘Head In The Sand’ and ‘Hasn’t Made For Freedom’ streamline Tangled Star’s brilliant hooks and melodic turns into immediately addictive and electric slices of slow burn power-pop. ‘Attic Space Conversion #1’ exemplifies the band\'s compositional and stylistic shifts even more, stitching rousing ramshackle rock with almost Doors’esque cosmic guitar pop. And there amidst the fuzz and driving drums lay some quiet gems in the beautifully stripped back, drumless guitar pop of ‘99% Ok’ and ‘Someone’s Walking’. Just when you think you have the album pegged, the final track ‘Theme’ takes a left turn employing sweeping synths and electronic percussion in some sort of beatific yet melancholic final postcard to the world.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>That Time</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1037527548/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/that-time\">That Time by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br />June 2009</p><div> </div><p><em>That Time</em> sees Tangled Star at their most immediately accessible and deliciously hooky. Like a trapdoor spider hidden by a welcome doormat, the band lay an easy invitation to the unsuspecting listener, only to unleash a series of inimitable pop hooks and subtle detours. The EP typifies Tangled Star’s ability to craft songs that reveal fresh dimensions with each listen.</p><p><em>That Time</em> features the stunning single ‘seabirdtown’. The track opens with the expansive open-air sound of Pink Floyd-style organs and spatial guitars before falling into an earthbound shuffle and a taste of a lush, full-band sound for Tangled Star. The song’s gradual build to a towering edifice of glowing overdriven guitar, droning organ and harmony vocals is topped off by an echoed guitar line that sketches glistening arcs in the stratosphere. The single is indicative of <em>That Time</em>’s strengths as a louder, more flowing version of the melodic, evocative spaces of Tangled Star’s twilight pop songs.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Our Man From Eden Hill</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 307px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2416987741/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/our-man-in-eden-hill\">Our Man in Eden Hill by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br />February 2008</p><div> </div><p><em>Our Man in Eden Hil</em>l sees Tangled Star building on their wonderfully received debut outing through Hidden Shoal, <em>It’s Now or Later</em>. Musically the EP toys with the frayed edges of country, pop and indie, while in part infusing a sense of space and possibility familiar to fans of the classic <em>Dark Side of the Moon</em>. As with their debut EP, <em>Our Man in Eden Hill</em>’s surface often belies its musical and emotional interior. Through its gentle shifts and directed detours, the EP manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset. As chief songwriter and lyricist Craig Hallsworth explains,</p><p>“If these songs are simple, they are only apparently so. To me, they are only beginning to really work when they are able to express a space of becoming... There are strange warnings and advice, mysterious imperatives and entreaties... I see the lyrics as working for and against themselves, as well as for and against the music, generating a plane of momentary, shifting affective states. There is comic desperation folded into offhand profundity. There is something depressing and defeating suddenly transformed into a rare kind of pleasure and privilege. There are secrets with nothing to hide. There is one last chance after another…” - Craig Hallsworth</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>It\'s Now Or Later</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 340px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1236131791/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/its-now-or-later\">It\'s Now or Later by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br /><br />February 2007</p><div> </div><p><em>It’s Now or Later</em> charts a journey across once familiar land yet through its exultant shifts and wandering detours manages to make everything feel new again. The album’s title talks to the wonderful paradox that is infused within each song both musically and lyrically. This is the apathetic’s guide to caring too much.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p align=\"justify\">In the late 90s, Outstation (Craig Hallsworth, guitars and singing; Jim Butterworth, bass; Jamie Hamilton, drums), a sonic monstrosity, began playing a lot of quiet tunes, and eventually turned into Tangled Star. Lorne Clements (Hammond Organ, Piano) became involved. Then Jamie Hamilton left, and was replaced by a drum machine, and Jim became its programmer.</p><p align=\"justify\">The T-Star quietly went about its business for a few years in Jim’s back shed and in Lorne’s living room. They played only a handful of live shows, but recorded two albums with Alan Smith from Bergerk! Recordings – the self-titled debut, and It’s Now Or Later (to be released through Hidden Shoal Recordings November, 2006).</p><p><strong>Craig Hallsworth:</strong><br /> Born 1964 in Collie South-West Western Australia – land that belongs to the Noongar People. Fatally infected with AM radio that plays constantly throughout childhood, in the house and in the car. Begins playing guitar and writing songs around 8 or 9 years of age. Magazines and records. Sitting alone in a room playing and singing into a cassette recorder. String of bands. Loses virginity after a gig at the Narrogin Hotel. Moves to Perth in the mid 80s upon completion of welding apprenticeship in the coal mines. Over next 15 years or so plays in The Bamboos, The Healers, wild palms, Zuvuya, Outstation, Tangled Star, as well as many solo performances and recordings. Currently writing an experimental book-length poem and playing in The Slow Beings.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=tangled-star-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=tangled-star-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Lets_Adjourn.pdf\"><em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Head_in_the_Sand.pdf\">‘Head In The Sand’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star_That_Time_EP.pdf\"><em>That Time</em> EP</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Our_Man_in_Eden_Hill_CD_Re-Issue.pdf\"><em>Our Man In Eden Hill</em> EP</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star_Mini_Album.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>It’s Now Or Later</em> Mini-Album Release</a>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery columns=\"2\" ids=\"9201,9196\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p>No videos yet, sorry!</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Tangled Star\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Tangled Star','','inherit','open','open','','9181-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 06:40:52','2014-07-09 06:40:52','',9181,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9181-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9315,1,'2014-07-09 06:42:17','2014-07-09 06:42:17','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Tangled Star</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9196\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/T-Star_Band_Photo1-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Tangled Star\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" /></a><em>“<em>something that ripples, radiates and blossoms amid a dressage of shimmering keys and softly burnt riff cascades which had us much in mind of Hefner shimmying with the Clientele at times.</em>”</em> –<strong> Losing Today<br /> </strong></p><p>Distilling elements of indie rock and alt country married with Craig Hallsworth’s wonderful dust and liquor coated vocals and twisting lyrics, Tangled Star weaves their own magic place. Through the musics exultant shifts and wandering detours the band manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4269735860/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\">Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br />June 2013</p><div> </div><p><em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> sees Craig Hallsworth’s Tangled Star project shift gears while continuing to distill the inimitable songcraft Hallsworth is so well known for. <em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> is, in typically contrarian fashion, their least bucolic offering yet, blending more driving power-pop flavours into their distinctive soup of song. Hallsworth’s wonderful dust-and-liquor-coated vocals and twisting lyrics combine with exultant shifts and melodic detours allowing the music to make once familiar territory somehow foreign and offset.</p><p>Tracks such as ‘Head In The Sand’ and ‘Hasn’t Made For Freedom’ streamline Tangled Star’s brilliant hooks and melodic turns into immediately addictive and electric slices of slow burn power-pop. ‘Attic Space Conversion #1’ exemplifies the band\'s compositional and stylistic shifts even more, stitching rousing ramshackle rock with almost Doors’esque cosmic guitar pop. And there amidst the fuzz and driving drums lay some quiet gems in the beautifully stripped back, drumless guitar pop of ‘99% Ok’ and ‘Someone’s Walking’. Just when you think you have the album pegged, the final track ‘Theme’ takes a left turn employing sweeping synths and electronic percussion in some sort of beatific yet melancholic final postcard to the world.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>That Time</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1037527548/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/that-time\">That Time by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br />June 2009</p><div> </div><p><em>That Time</em> sees Tangled Star at their most immediately accessible and deliciously hooky. Like a trapdoor spider hidden by a welcome doormat, the band lay an easy invitation to the unsuspecting listener, only to unleash a series of inimitable pop hooks and subtle detours. The EP typifies Tangled Star’s ability to craft songs that reveal fresh dimensions with each listen.</p><p><em>That Time</em> features the stunning single ‘seabirdtown’. The track opens with the expansive open-air sound of Pink Floyd-style organs and spatial guitars before falling into an earthbound shuffle and a taste of a lush, full-band sound for Tangled Star. The song’s gradual build to a towering edifice of glowing overdriven guitar, droning organ and harmony vocals is topped off by an echoed guitar line that sketches glistening arcs in the stratosphere. The single is indicative of <em>That Time</em>’s strengths as a louder, more flowing version of the melodic, evocative spaces of Tangled Star’s twilight pop songs.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Our Man From Eden Hill</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 307px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2416987741/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/our-man-in-eden-hill\">Our Man in Eden Hill by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br />February 2008</p><div> </div><p><em>Our Man in Eden Hil</em>l sees Tangled Star building on their wonderfully received debut outing through Hidden Shoal, <em>It’s Now or Later</em>. Musically the EP toys with the frayed edges of country, pop and indie, while in part infusing a sense of space and possibility familiar to fans of the classic <em>Dark Side of the Moon</em>. As with their debut EP, <em>Our Man in Eden Hill</em>’s surface often belies its musical and emotional interior. Through its gentle shifts and directed detours, the EP manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset. As chief songwriter and lyricist Craig Hallsworth explains,</p><p>“If these songs are simple, they are only apparently so. To me, they are only beginning to really work when they are able to express a space of becoming... There are strange warnings and advice, mysterious imperatives and entreaties... I see the lyrics as working for and against themselves, as well as for and against the music, generating a plane of momentary, shifting affective states. There is comic desperation folded into offhand profundity. There is something depressing and defeating suddenly transformed into a rare kind of pleasure and privilege. There are secrets with nothing to hide. There is one last chance after another…” - Craig Hallsworth</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>It\'s Now Or Later</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 340px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1236131791/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/its-now-or-later\">It\'s Now or Later by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br />February 2007</p><div> </div><p><em>It’s Now or Later</em> charts a journey across once familiar land yet through its exultant shifts and wandering detours manages to make everything feel new again. The album’s title talks to the wonderful paradox that is infused within each song both musically and lyrically. This is the apathetic’s guide to caring too much.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p align=\"justify\">In the late 90s, Outstation (Craig Hallsworth, guitars and singing; Jim Butterworth, bass; Jamie Hamilton, drums), a sonic monstrosity, began playing a lot of quiet tunes, and eventually turned into Tangled Star. Lorne Clements (Hammond Organ, Piano) became involved. Then Jamie Hamilton left, and was replaced by a drum machine, and Jim became its programmer.</p><p align=\"justify\">The T-Star quietly went about its business for a few years in Jim’s back shed and in Lorne’s living room. They played only a handful of live shows, but recorded two albums with Alan Smith from Bergerk! Recordings – the self-titled debut, and It’s Now Or Later (to be released through Hidden Shoal Recordings November, 2006).</p><p><strong>Craig Hallsworth:</strong><br /> Born 1964 in Collie South-West Western Australia – land that belongs to the Noongar People. Fatally infected with AM radio that plays constantly throughout childhood, in the house and in the car. Begins playing guitar and writing songs around 8 or 9 years of age. Magazines and records. Sitting alone in a room playing and singing into a cassette recorder. String of bands. Loses virginity after a gig at the Narrogin Hotel. Moves to Perth in the mid 80s upon completion of welding apprenticeship in the coal mines. Over next 15 years or so plays in The Bamboos, The Healers, wild palms, Zuvuya, Outstation, Tangled Star, as well as many solo performances and recordings. Currently writing an experimental book-length poem and playing in The Slow Beings.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=tangled-star-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=tangled-star-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Lets_Adjourn.pdf\"><em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Head_in_the_Sand.pdf\">‘Head In The Sand’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star_That_Time_EP.pdf\"><em>That Time</em> EP</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Our_Man_in_Eden_Hill_CD_Re-Issue.pdf\"><em>Our Man In Eden Hill</em> EP</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star_Mini_Album.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>It’s Now Or Later</em> Mini-Album Release</a>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery columns=\"2\" ids=\"9201,9196\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p>No videos yet, sorry!</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Tangled Star\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Tangled Star','','inherit','open','open','','9181-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 06:42:17','2014-07-09 06:42:17','',9181,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9181-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9316,1,'2014-07-09 06:59:29','2014-07-09 06:59:29','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Sleeping Me</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Sleeping_Me_1_Web.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9109\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Sleeping_Me_1_Web.jpg\" alt=\"Sleeping Me\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><em>“... a sweeping, melancholic grandeur which never threatens to turn into bombast, but is almost enough to induce tears.”</em> –<strong> [sic] Magazine<br /> </strong></p><p>Textural and meticulously composed, the droning and emotive ambience of Sleeping Me is a quiet reminder of all the beauty and personal strife that is experienced in solitude. This music is an homage to the bittersweet rise and fall of fortune, the discovery and evasiveness of identity and truth, and the acceptance of distance, disappointment, and the poignancy of an ever-elusive yet omnipresent love.</p><p><strong>       </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Cradlesongs</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4198502662/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://sleepingme.bandcamp.com/album/cradlesongs\">Cradlesongs by Sleeping Me</a></iframe><br />May 2009</p><div> </div><p>Textural and meticulously composed, the emotive ambience of Sleeping Me is a quiet reminder of all the beauty and personal strife that is experienced in solitude. Tidal currents of delayed guitar carry the listener across an ocean of reverb, cast adrift beneath a brooding sky. Each track hands an elusive secret to the next, hinted at but never revealed.</p><p>Sleeping Me’s masterful debut album <em>Cradlesongs</em> is an homage to the bittersweet rise and fall of fortune, the discovery and evasiveness of identity and truth, the acceptance of distance and disappointment, and the poignancy of an ever-elusive yet omnipresent love. From the sad, sparse introductory piece ‘Empty Cradle’ to the epic melancholy of closing track ‘The Rattle In Our Throats’, <em>Cradlesongs</em> demonstrates an unmatchable elegance and poise, allowing these sorrowful symphonies to extend far beyond their own discrete edges and breathe new life into a crowded genre.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Clayton McEvoy grew up in the vast expanse of desert and concrete that is California’s Inland Empire. Though initially deciding to play music for very different reasons (girls and free booze), the discovery of shoegaze and ambient music, followed by an interest in minimalist composition, would become the foundation for more focused experimentation as Sleeping Me.</p><p>Clayton has also collaborated on the new album by The Refractors (Dynamophone, 2009), and collaborates with Jorge Mantas under the name The Beautiful Schizophonic.”</p><p>Sleeping Me’s debut release Cradlesongs is an homage to the bittersweet rise and fall of fortune, the discovery and evasiveness of identity and truth, and the acceptance of distance, disappointment, and the poignancy of an ever-elusive yet omnipresent love.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=sleeping-me content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=sleeping-me-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Sleeping_Me_Cradlesongs_Release.pdf\">Sleeping Me <em>Cradlesongs </em>Album Release.</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Sleeping_Me_Single_Release.pdf\">Sleeping Me ‘Legs Like Gravestone’ Single Release.</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Sleeping_Me_Signing.pdf\">Sleeping Me Signs to Hidden Shoal.</a></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids=\"9112,9113,9114\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p>No music videos yet, sorry!</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Sleeping Me\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Sleeping Me','','inherit','open','open','','9107-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 06:59:29','2014-07-09 06:59:29','',9107,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9107-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9752,1,'2014-07-18 07:53:22','2014-07-18 07:53:22','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Mukaizake</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9058\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Mukaizake-Press-Photo-1-Square-Lo-res-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Mukaizake\" width=\"239\" height=\"233\" /></a><em>“See, it sounds like a pop release, but that’s the trick! Once you realise this you can begin appreciating <em>Unknown Knowns </em>for the interweaving guitars and all the space used by the drawn out arrangements as the mini-album/extended EP sublimely unfolds.”</em> –<strong> Drum Media</strong>\r\n\r\nFeaturing members of legendary Perth bands Umpire, Adam Said Galore and Blue Tile Lounge, Mukaizake combine intricate, dynamic guitar parts, borrowing heavily from math-inspired indie rock, with highly accessible song structures and strong melodic vocals. Their songs feature organic, reactive playing, with a depth and subtlety that is revealed on repeat listens.<strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Unknown Knowns</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 340px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=154443788/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://mukaizake.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-knowns\">Unknown Knowns by Mukaizake</a></iframe>\r\nNovember 2009\r\n<div></div>\r\nThe cliché ‘all killer, no filler’ is often bandied around with very little to back it up. In the case of Mukaizake’s stunning new release <em>Unknown Knowns</em>, the cliché applies: this six-song, half-hour mini-album is sheer perfection. <em>Unknown Knowns</em> kicks off with the fuzzy propulsion of single ‘The Yeah Conditioner’, immediately launching the listener into Mukaizake’s compelling corner of the musical universe. This is serpentine indie-rock at its finest, weaving hook after hook around your chest until you’re suspended from the clouds, a grin plastered across your face, unable to even think about listening to anything else.\r\n\r\n‘Rule Norse’ ups the ante with a thunderously rollicking first half that follows with gorgeous layered backing vocals and hovering guitars in the exultant, expansive second half. ‘Corporal Steam’ winds the album down a notch with its chiming circular guitar harmonics and Geoff Symons’ plaintive vocals before ‘Frisbee’ launches the listener off the edge of a cliff attached to an electric boomerang of riffs and angular melodies. Then, the stunningly wistful ‘My Friend Flicker’ and the dreamy lament of ‘Slack Bees’ bring the listener down in a pool of dazzling songmanship.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nMukaizake formed in 1999 when four friends banded together to create a new voice in the Perth music scene. The band comprises Dan Erickson (Bluetile Lounge), Simon Struthers (Umpire, Adam Said Galore), Geoff Symons (Umpire, ex-Adam Said Galore, O!), and Michael Lake (Umpire, ex-Adam Said Galore). The band have supported artists such as Mercury Rev, Death Cab For Cutie, Will Oldham, Dave Pajo (Papa M, Slint), Something For Kate, The Sleepy Jackson and Big Heavy Stuff, to name a few. Simon Struthers has produced albums for artists such as Felicity Groom, Bob Evans, Apricot Rail and The Kill Devil Hills.\r\n\r\nAfter a lengthy absence from the Australian music scene, Mukaizake are set to release <em>Unknown Knowns</em>, the stunning follow up to their highly acclaimed 2003 album <em>Mapping the Static</em>. The band combines intricate, dynamic guitar structures, borrowing heavily from math-inspired indie rock, with highly accessible song structures and strong melodic vocals. Their songs feature organic, reactive playing, with a depth and subtlety that is revealed on repeat listens.\r\n\r\nThe recording for <em>Unknown Knowns</em> began back in 2004, when the band set aside a long weekend to lay down basic tracks. Soon after this initial recording, members of the band relocated to different cities across Australia, putting the band on temporary hiatus. The songs have since evolved, with the band utilising Forensic Audio, Simon’s recording studio, to record and re-work the songs over time, with the final mixes finally finished mid-2009.\r\n\r\nThe extended production and recording process gave the band time to fully realise the awesome potential of the songs. As a result, the six track mini-album is an inspired marriage of melody and composition, all held together by extraordinary musicianship.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=mukaizake-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=mukaizake-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Mukaizake_Unknown_Knowns_US.pdf\"><em>Unknown Knowns</em> US and Worldwide Digital Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Mukaizake_Single.pdf\">‘The Yeah Conditioner’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Mukaizake_Signing.pdf\">Mukaizake Sign to Hidden Shoal Recordings</a>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery columns=\"2\" ids=\"9061,9062\"]\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/9gV6yyJIUiI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nMukaizake\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Mukaizake','','inherit','closed','open','','9054-revision-v1','','','2014-07-18 07:53:22','2014-07-18 07:53:22','',9054,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9054-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9317,1,'2014-07-09 07:01:37','2014-07-09 07:01:37','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Mukaizake</h1>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9058\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Mukaizake-Press-Photo-1-Square-Lo-res-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Mukaizake\" width=\"239\" height=\"233\" /></a><em>“See, it sounds like a pop release, but that’s the trick! Once you realise this you can begin appreciating <em>Unknown Knowns </em>for the interweaving guitars and all the space used by the drawn out arrangements as the mini-album/extended EP sublimely unfolds.”</em> –<strong> Drum Media</strong></p>\r\n<p>Featuring members of legendary Perth bands Umpire, Adam Said Galore and Blue Tile Lounge, Mukaizake combine intricate, dynamic guitar parts, borrowing heavily from math-inspired indie rock, with highly accessible song structures and strong melodic vocals. Their songs feature organic, reactive playing, with a depth and subtlety that is revealed on repeat listens.<strong> <br /></strong></p>\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Unknown Knowns</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 340px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=154443788/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://mukaizake.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-knowns\">Unknown Knowns by Mukaizake</a></iframe><br /> November 2009</p><div> </div><p>The cliché ‘all killer, no filler’ is often bandied around with very little to back it up. In the case of Mukaizake’s stunning new release <em>Unknown Knowns</em>, the cliché applies: this six-song, half-hour mini-album is sheer perfection. <em>Unknown Knowns</em> kicks off with the fuzzy propulsion of single ‘The Yeah Conditioner’, immediately launching the listener into Mukaizake’s compelling corner of the musical universe. This is serpentine indie-rock at its finest, weaving hook after hook around your chest until you’re suspended from the clouds, a grin plastered across your face, unable to even think about listening to anything else.</p><p>‘Rule Norse’ ups the ante with a thunderously rollicking first half that follows with gorgeous layered backing vocals and hovering guitars in the exultant, expansive second half. ‘Corporal Steam’ winds the album down a notch with its chiming circular guitar harmonics and Geoff Symons’ plaintive vocals before ‘Frisbee’ launches the listener off the edge of a cliff attached to an electric boomerang of riffs and angular melodies. Then, the stunningly wistful ‘My Friend Flicker’ and the dreamy lament of ‘Slack Bees’ bring the listener down in a pool of dazzling songmanship.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>Mukaizake formed in 1999 when four friends banded together to create a new voice in the Perth music scene. The band comprises Dan Erickson (Bluetile Lounge), Simon Struthers (Umpire, Adam Said Galore), Geoff Symons (Umpire, ex-Adam Said Galore, O!), and Michael Lake (Umpire, ex-Adam Said Galore). The band have supported artists such as Mercury Rev, Death Cab For Cutie, Will Oldham, Dave Pajo (Papa M, Slint), Something For Kate, The Sleepy Jackson and Big Heavy Stuff, to name a few. Simon Struthers has produced albums for artists such as Felicity Groom, Bob Evans, Apricot Rail and The Kill Devil Hills.</p>\r\n<p>After a lengthy absence from the Australian music scene, Mukaizake are set to release <em>Unknown Knowns</em>, the stunning follow up to their highly acclaimed 2003 album <em>Mapping the Static</em>. The band combines intricate, dynamic guitar structures, borrowing heavily from math-inspired indie rock, with highly accessible song structures and strong melodic vocals. Their songs feature organic, reactive playing, with a depth and subtlety that is revealed on repeat listens.</p>\r\n<p>The recording for <em>Unknown Knowns</em> began back in 2004, when the band set aside a long weekend to lay down basic tracks. Soon after this initial recording, members of the band relocated to different cities across Australia, putting the band on temporary hiatus. The songs have since evolved, with the band utilising Forensic Audio, Simon’s recording studio, to record and re-work the songs over time, with the final mixes finally finished mid-2009.</p>\r\n<p>The extended production and recording process gave the band time to fully realise the awesome potential of the songs. As a result, the six track mini-album is an inspired marriage of melody and composition, all held together by extraordinary musicianship.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<br />\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=mukaizake-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<br />\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=mukaizake-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<p> <br /> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Mukaizake_Unknown_Knowns_US.pdf\"><em>Unknown Knowns</em> US and Worldwide Digital Album Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Mukaizake_Single.pdf\">‘The Yeah Conditioner’ Single Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Mukaizake_Signing.pdf\">Mukaizake Sign to Hidden Shoal Recordings</a><br />  </p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[gallery columns=\"2\" ids=\"9061,9062\"]\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/9gV6yyJIUiI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Mukaizake\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Mukaizake','','inherit','open','open','','9054-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 07:01:37','2014-07-09 07:01:37','',9054,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9054-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9754,1,'2014-07-18 07:54:32','2014-07-18 07:54:32','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Markus Mehr</h1>\r\n<img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9013\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Markus_Mehr_Profile-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Markus Mehr\" width=\"199\" height=\"267\" /><em>“... prepare for a shuddering, near chaotic, kaleidoscopic </em><em>experience as Mehr challenges our and his own </em><em>preconceptions of what “electronica” is, what it represents </em><em>and of what his instrumentation can achieve.”<strong> – Delusions of Adequacy</strong></em>\r\n\r\nMarkus Mehr’s debut, <em>Lava</em>, holds true to its title – it is a dense, steaming surge of glue-thick sound. But, after any destructive force there is new growth. Green shoots of melody arc out of the surface and populate the terrain as new possibilities emerge. <span class=\"_5yl5\" data-reactid=\".27.$mid=11404191394044=243362f841034556913.2:0.0.0.0.0\"><span class=\"null\">His follow-up triptych of works (<em>In</em>, <em>On</em> and <em>Off</em>) brought another level of conceptual and sonic experimentation to the table, advancing his stature in the field of contemporary experimental music.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http://www.facebook.com/markus.mehr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/MarkusMehr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"http://soundcloud.com/markus-mehr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8764 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.markusmehr.de/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Off</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 170px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=398032740/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/off\">Off by Markus Mehr</a></iframe>\r\nJanuary 2013\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>Off</em>  by German experimental ambient artist Markus Mehr, is the third and final part of a trilogy that includes the critically acclaimed releases <em>In</em> and <em>On</em>.\r\n\r\n<em>Off</em>  is not only the culmination of Markus Mehr’s trilogy, but it may also be the culmination of his career’s work thus far. The single-track album begins in silence, as a thrumming loop gradually emerges. From there, a beautiful piano refrain is introduced, noise ebbs and flows, threatening to engulf the piece, while field recordings and swooningly transportive synth patterns drift into focus. During its 42-minute runtime, the piece immerses the listener in a dizzyingly beautiful soundworld that’s ever-shifting. Certain passages allude to other sequences and samples in the preceding albums, linking the three albums into a kaleidoscopic mobius strip.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>On</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 406px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2332510059/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\">On by Markus Mehr</a></iframe>\r\nJuly 2012\r\n<div></div>\r\nThe new album <em>On</em> by German experimental ambient artist Markus Mehr, forms the second part of a triptych that also includes recent release <em>In</em> and the forthcoming <em>Off</em>.\r\n\r\n<em>On</em> is a continuation of the experimental direction of Markus Mehr’s previous releases, with eight diverse tracks employing samples, field recordings and slathers of Mehr’s trademark distorted drones. This approach is apparent right from opener ‘Gonna Make You Mine’, as scything slashes of sound leap from the speakers. Single ‘Flaming Youth’ counterbalances fragments of static against a gorgeous sleepy-eyed loop of mangled lounge-jazz. A track as expansive and moving as ‘Duck Became Swan’ is followed by brief rhythmic piece ‘Olympia’. This tightrope walk between dizzying samples and exacting digital manipulation is walked with aplomb throughout <em>On</em>’s adventurous and thrilling 45-minute runtime.\r\n\r\n<em>On</em> is preceded by <em>In</em>, the first part of the triptych, which comprises two monumental tracks, ‘Komo’ and ‘Ostinato’, each of which clocks in at around 25 minutes, circling around and building upon hypnotic instrumental motifs. The final part of the triptych, Off, released on 24 January 2013, includes the most epic piece yet, ‘Transit’, which clocks in at 49 minutes and will be performed live in collaboration with video artist Stefanie Sixt, who created the video to Mehr’s single ‘Cousteau’.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>In</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 210px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4000928914/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/in\">In by Markus Mehr</a></iframe>\r\nJanuary 2012\r\n<div></div>\r\nMarkus Mehr follows up his stunning debut album <em>Lava</em> with three new releases released over a 12 month period. In is the first part of the triptych, comprising two monumental tracks, ‘Komo’ and ‘Ostinato’, each of which clocks in at around 25 minutes, circling around and building upon hypnotic instrumental motifs. ‘Komo’ gradually emerges from silence, its distant, filtered throb reluctantly revealing its source material – a heartbreaking string part whose emotional impact intensifies as the loop clarifies. ‘Ostinato’ is an altogether darker, gnarlier experience, its string loops chewed into distorted knots which are highlighted by treated guitars and crafted electronics.\r\n\r\nThe second part, <em>On</em>, released on 21 June 2012, takes a more experimental direction, with eight diverse tracks employing samples, field recordings and slathers of Mehr’s trademark distorted drones. And finally, <em>Off</em>, released on 24 January 2013, includes the most epic piece yet, ‘Transit’, which clocks in at 49 minutes and will be performed live in collaboration with video artist Stefanie Sixt, who created the video to Mehr’s single ‘Cousteau’.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Lava</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=634202850/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/lava\">Lava by Markus Mehr</a></iframe>\r\nAugust 2010\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>Lava</em> holds true to its title – it is a dense surge of glue-think sound, making new paths as it pushes through the landscape. But, after any destructive force there is new growth. Green shoots of melody arc out of the surface and populate the terrain as new possibilities emerge. A new master of heartbreaking ambient drone has arrived. These tracks evoke time spent transfixed, gazing through a giant looking glass, waiting wide-eyed as new discoveries are revealed in the album’s textured contours.\r\n\r\nOn epic opener ‘Agenda’, layers of gorgeous synth gradually accumulate into a gloriously massive chord. On single ‘Hubble’, a bedrock of fuzzed drone is decorated with glistening counter-melodies, tracing shards of light across the coal-black skies. ‘Softwar’ builds and then falls away, only to return with a spine-tingling theme that crumbles under its own majesty.\r\n\r\n<em>Lava</em>’s ability to both suspend the listener in its abstracted liquid vapours and at the same time imprint its affecting narrative is a special thing. It is one of those albums whose emotional impact stays with you long after you feel its last touch.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nBased in Augsburg, south Germany, Markus Mehr’s musical journey began with the guitar. He grew up listening to bands like Black Sabbath and AC/DC, before turning his ears to darker sounds and the ethereal, experimental pop of David Sylvian. After recording and touring with several bands, he struck out on his own with home studio project Aroma.\r\n\r\nNow working under his own name, Mehr wrote and recorded his debut album <em>Lava</em> at his home studio using guitars and synths, plus any noise-making accoutrements at hand – electric shavers, ventilators, electric tooth brushes and field recordings –all processed and distorted to create a gorgeous wall of sound, akin to the classic ’70s Kosmische music of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, but also the contemporary masters of textured luminosity, Fennesz and Tim Hecker. 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Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Markus Mehr','','inherit','closed','open','','9007-revision-v1','','','2014-07-18 07:54:32','2014-07-18 07:54:32','',9007,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9007-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9318,1,'2014-07-09 07:36:09','2014-07-09 07:36:09','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Markus Mehr</h1>\r\n<p><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9013\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Markus_Mehr_Profile-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Markus Mehr\" width=\"199\" height=\"267\" /><em>“... prepare for a shuddering, near chaotic, kaleidoscopic </em><em>experience as Mehr challenges our and his own </em><em>preconceptions of what “electronica” is, what it represents </em><em>and of what his instrumentation can achieve.”<strong> – Delusions of Adequacy</strong></em></p>\r\n<p>Markus Mehr’s debut, <em>Lava</em>, holds true to its title – it is a dense, steaming surge of glue-thick sound. But, after any destructive force there is new growth. Green shoots of melody arc out of the surface and populate the terrain as new possibilities emerge. <span class=\"_5yl5\" data-reactid=\".27.$mid=11404191394044=243362f841034556913.2:0.0.0.0.0\"><span class=\"null\">His follow-up triptych of works (<em>In</em>, <em>On</em> and <em>Off</em>) brought another level of conceptual and sonic experimentation to the table, advancing his stature in the field of contemporary experimental music.</span></span></p>\r\n<p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http://www.facebook.com/markus.mehr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/MarkusMehr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"http://soundcloud.com/markus-mehr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8764 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.markusmehr.de/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Off</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 170px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=398032740/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/off\">Off by Markus Mehr</a></iframe><br />January 2013</p><div> </div><p><em>Off</em>  by German experimental ambient artist Markus Mehr, is the third and final part of a trilogy that includes the critically acclaimed releases <em>In</em> and <em>On</em>.</p><p><em>Off</em>  is not only the culmination of Markus Mehr’s trilogy, but it may also be the culmination of his career’s work thus far. The single-track album begins in silence, as a thrumming loop gradually emerges. From there, a beautiful piano refrain is introduced, noise ebbs and flows, threatening to engulf the piece, while field recordings and swooningly transportive synth patterns drift into focus. During its 42-minute runtime, the piece immerses the listener in a dizzyingly beautiful soundworld that’s ever-shifting. Certain passages allude to other sequences and samples in the preceding albums, linking the three albums into a kaleidoscopic mobius strip.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>On</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 406px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2332510059/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\">On by Markus Mehr</a></iframe><br />July 2012</p><div> </div><p>The new album <em>On</em> by German experimental ambient artist Markus Mehr, forms the second part of a triptych that also includes recent release <em>In</em> and the forthcoming <em>Off</em>.</p><p><em>On</em> is a continuation of the experimental direction of Markus Mehr’s previous releases, with eight diverse tracks employing samples, field recordings and slathers of Mehr’s trademark distorted drones. This approach is apparent right from opener ‘Gonna Make You Mine’, as scything slashes of sound leap from the speakers. Single ‘Flaming Youth’ counterbalances fragments of static against a gorgeous sleepy-eyed loop of mangled lounge-jazz. A track as expansive and moving as ‘Duck Became Swan’ is followed by brief rhythmic piece ‘Olympia’. This tightrope walk between dizzying samples and exacting digital manipulation is walked with aplomb throughout <em>On</em>’s adventurous and thrilling 45-minute runtime.</p><p><em>On</em> is preceded by <em>In</em>, the first part of the triptych, which comprises two monumental tracks, ‘Komo’ and ‘Ostinato’, each of which clocks in at around 25 minutes, circling around and building upon hypnotic instrumental motifs. The final part of the triptych, Off, released on 24 January 2013, includes the most epic piece yet, ‘Transit’, which clocks in at 49 minutes and will be performed live in collaboration with video artist Stefanie Sixt, who created the video to Mehr’s single ‘Cousteau’.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>In</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 210px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4000928914/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/in\">In by Markus Mehr</a></iframe><br />January 2012</p><div> </div><p>Markus Mehr follows up his stunning debut album <em>Lava</em> with three new releases released over a 12 month period. In is the first part of the triptych, comprising two monumental tracks, ‘Komo’ and ‘Ostinato’, each of which clocks in at around 25 minutes, circling around and building upon hypnotic instrumental motifs. ‘Komo’ gradually emerges from silence, its distant, filtered throb reluctantly revealing its source material – a heartbreaking string part whose emotional impact intensifies as the loop clarifies. ‘Ostinato’ is an altogether darker, gnarlier experience, its string loops chewed into distorted knots which are highlighted by treated guitars and crafted electronics.</p><p>The second part, <em>On</em>, released on 21 June 2012, takes a more experimental direction, with eight diverse tracks employing samples, field recordings and slathers of Mehr’s trademark distorted drones. And finally, <em>Off</em>, released on 24 January 2013, includes the most epic piece yet, ‘Transit’, which clocks in at 49 minutes and will be performed live in collaboration with video artist Stefanie Sixt, who created the video to Mehr’s single ‘Cousteau’.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Lava</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=634202850/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/lava\">Lava by Markus Mehr</a></iframe><br />August 2010</p><div> </div><p><em>Lava</em> holds true to its title – it is a dense surge of glue-think sound, making new paths as it pushes through the landscape. But, after any destructive force there is new growth. Green shoots of melody arc out of the surface and populate the terrain as new possibilities emerge. A new master of heartbreaking ambient drone has arrived. These tracks evoke time spent transfixed, gazing through a giant looking glass, waiting wide-eyed as new discoveries are revealed in the album’s textured contours.</p><p>On epic opener ‘Agenda’, layers of gorgeous synth gradually accumulate into a gloriously massive chord. On single ‘Hubble’, a bedrock of fuzzed drone is decorated with glistening counter-melodies, tracing shards of light across the coal-black skies. ‘Softwar’ builds and then falls away, only to return with a spine-tingling theme that crumbles under its own majesty.</p><p><em>Lava</em>’s ability to both suspend the listener in its abstracted liquid vapours and at the same time imprint its affecting narrative is a special thing. It is one of those albums whose emotional impact stays with you long after you feel its last touch.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>Based in Augsburg, south Germany, Markus Mehr’s musical journey began with the guitar. He grew up listening to bands like Black Sabbath and AC/DC, before turning his ears to darker sounds and the ethereal, experimental pop of David Sylvian. After recording and touring with several bands, he struck out on his own with home studio project Aroma.</p>\r\n<p>Now working under his own name, Mehr wrote and recorded his debut album <em>Lava</em> at his home studio using guitars and synths, plus any noise-making accoutrements at hand – electric shavers, ventilators, electric tooth brushes and field recordings –all processed and distorted to create a gorgeous wall of sound, akin to the classic ’70s Kosmische music of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, but also the contemporary masters of textured luminosity, Fennesz and Tim Hecker. His follow up albums, <em>In</em>, <em>On</em> and <em>Off </em> pushed the sonic and structural envelope even further and created a triptych of works that stands amongst the most engaging contemporary experimental music of our days.</p>\r\n<p>Mehr’s extensive live performances across Europe include collaborations with visual artist Stefanie Sixt and performances in churches, galleries and large disused gas tanks amongst the more traditional festival shows.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=markus-mehr content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]<br />\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=markus-mehr-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]<br /> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<br />\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr-Live_In_Bari.pdf\"><em>Live in Bari</em> Album Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr-Off.pdf\"><em>Off</em> Album Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr-Duck_Became_Swan.pdf\">‘Duck Became Swan’ Single Release and Music Video</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr-Flaming_Youth.pdf\">‘Flaming Youth’ Single Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr-In.pdf\"><em>In</em> Album Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr_Cousteau.pdf\">‘Cousteau’ Single Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr_Lava_Digital_Release.pdf\"><em>Lava</em> Album Digital Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr_Hubble_Single.pdf\">‘Hubble’ Single Release</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr_Signing.pdf\">Markus Mehr Signs to Hidden Shoal</a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[gallery ids=\"9020,9021,9022,9023,9024,9025,9019\"]\r\n<p> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/dGRCY37hMm4?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/PcfMLHZZomw?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/1jIYi486n0c?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Markus Mehr\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. 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Seven members, a whole ensemble of instruments and varied style make for an intriguing sound that bounces from the light and melodic, to a darker, full bodied roar. These guys from Vermont have just released “Lakes and Ponds”, an EP that demonstrates across the board how much talent they possess. From the saga of “You vs Them” to the effervescent pop rock of “Lovers Crime” I was left licking the scraps off my fingers, hungry for more.”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.sandwichclub.fm/blog/2007/01/hero-cycle-digital-label-age.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sandwich Club</a>','The Hero Cycle “Lakes and Ponds” - The Sandwich Club','','inherit','open','open','','308-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 09:34:49','2014-07-09 09:34:49','',308,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/308-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9320,1,'2014-07-09 09:35:36','2014-07-09 09:35:36','“Bands like The Hero Cycle don’t come around that often. 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You will feel compelled to hit repeat as soon as it’s done, but I suggest you suppress that urge for now because the next song “<em>Lover’s Crime</em>” is just as infectious. The final track, “<em>You Vs Them</em>” is completely epic in proportion. Masterpiece….With the right promotion they are going to be the next big thing and you’ll definitely want to jump on this one nice and early.”\n\n<strong /><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://itsnotthebandihateitstheirfans.blogspot.com/2007/02/hero-cycle-lakes-and-ponds.html\">It’s Not The Band I Hate, It’s Their Fans</a>','The Hero Cycle “Lakes and Ponds” - It’s Not The Band I Hate, It’s Their Fans','','inherit','open','open','','318-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 09:40:27','2014-07-09 09:40:27','',318,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9323,1,'2014-07-09 09:41:17','2014-07-09 09:41:17','“The most exciting release I’ve heard in a long while is the debut EP by Burlington, Vermont’s The Hero Cycle. I cannot say enough good things about their sound. They feel like an amalgamation of all of my favourite bands: Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Built To Spill, Stars, etc……. 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Australian label, Hidden Shoal Records, didn’t mess about, signing this guy immediately upon hearing the demo. “The Sound Of Lights When Dim” is inspiring.”\r\n\r\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.boringmachines.blogspot.com/\">Boring Machines Disturb Sleep</a>','Slow Dancing Society “The Sound of Lights When Dim” - Boring Machines Disturb Sleep (”Tips for 2007″ Article)','','inherit','open','open','','306-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 09:43:25','2014-07-09 09:43:25','',306,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/306-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9325,1,'2014-07-09 09:44:01','2014-07-09 09:44:01','<strong>Excerpt - </strong>“Utterly gorgeous stuff from Washington based producer Drew Sullivan. A stunning collection encompassing Pink Floyd’s ethereal guitars, Explosions In The Sky melodies, shimmering synths and delicate electronica. Australian label, Hidden Shoal Records, didn’t mess about, signing this guy immediately upon hearing the demo. “The Sound Of Lights When Dim” is inspiring.”\r\n\r\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.boringmachines.blogspot.com/\">Boring Machines Disturb Sleep</a>','Slow Dancing Society “The Sound of Lights When Dim” - Boring Machines Disturb Sleep (”Tips for 2007″ Article)','','inherit','open','open','','306-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 09:44:01','2014-07-09 09:44:01','',306,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/306-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9326,1,'2014-07-09 09:44:47','2014-07-09 09:44:47','“Utterly gorgeous stuff from Washington based producer Drew Sullivan. A stunning collection encompassing Pink Floyd’s ethereal guitars, Explosions In The Sky melodies, shimmering synths and delicate electronica. Australian label, Hidden Shoal Records, didn’t mess about, signing this guy immediately upon hearing the demo. “The Sound Of Lights When Dim” is inspiring.”\r\n\r\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.boringmachines.blogspot.com/\">Boring Machines Disturb Sleep</a>','Slow Dancing Society “The Sound of Lights When Dim” - Boring Machines Disturb Sleep (”Tips for 2007″ Article)','','inherit','open','open','','306-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 09:44:47','2014-07-09 09:44:47','',306,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/306-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9327,1,'2014-07-09 09:47:59','2014-07-09 09:47:59','“Sullivan’s graceful guitar work is the very solid foundation of this CD as he plays with a slow, sweeping style that perfectly augments the easy swirl of his deep electronic layers. The pairing of analog and digital instrumentation is seamless.”\r\n\r\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://hypnagogue.netfirms.com/index.html\">Hypnagogue</a>','Slow Dancing Society “The Sound of Lights When Dim” - Hypnagogue','','inherit','open','open','','289-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 09:47:59','2014-07-09 09:47:59','',289,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/289-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9328,1,'2014-07-09 09:50:37','2014-07-09 09:50:37','<strong>Excerpt</strong> - “With this release, Hidden Shoal Recordings continues to cement itself in my consciousness as the label to watch for gorgeous new music. First <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon122/au122b.php\">Glassacre</a>, then <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon124/au124.php\">My Majestic Star</a> and <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon125/it125.php\">Dilatazione</a>, and now Slow Dancing Society, all on repeat play, dancing around my head like bright, sparkling galaxies of rich, life-affirming sound…..Discernible melodies seep through the gauzy synths and nag at your brain until serotonin is gradually carried throughout your body and you realise you’re floating an inch below the ceiling.”\r\n\r\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon125/uswa125.php\">Luna Kafe</a>','Slow Dancing Society “The Sound of Lights When Dim” - Luna Kafe','','inherit','open','open','','299-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 09:50:37','2014-07-09 09:50:37','',299,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/299-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9746,1,'2014-07-18 07:48:43','2014-07-18 07:48:43','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Tangled Star</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9196\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/T-Star_Band_Photo1-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Tangled Star\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" /></a><em>“<em>something that ripples, radiates and blossoms amid a dressage of shimmering keys and softly burnt riff cascades which had us much in mind of Hefner shimmying with the Clientele at times.</em>”</em> –<strong> Losing Today\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nDistilling elements of indie rock and alt country married with Craig Hallsworth’s wonderful dust and liquor coated vocals and twisting lyrics, Tangled Star weaves their own magic place. Through the musics exultant shifts and wandering detours the band manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2116748307/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\">Let&#39;s Adjourn to the Garden by Tangled Star</a></iframe>\r\nJune 2013\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> sees Craig Hallsworth’s Tangled Star project shift gears while continuing to distill the inimitable songcraft Hallsworth is so well known for. <em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> is, in typically contrarian fashion, their least bucolic offering yet, blending more driving power-pop flavours into their distinctive soup of song. Hallsworth’s wonderful dust-and-liquor-coated vocals and twisting lyrics combine with exultant shifts and melodic detours allowing the music to make once familiar territory somehow foreign and offset.\r\n\r\nTracks such as ‘Head In The Sand’ and ‘Hasn’t Made For Freedom’ streamline Tangled Star’s brilliant hooks and melodic turns into immediately addictive and electric slices of slow burn power-pop. ‘Attic Space Conversion #1’ exemplifies the band\'s compositional and stylistic shifts even more, stitching rousing ramshackle rock with almost Doors’esque cosmic guitar pop. And there amidst the fuzz and driving drums lay some quiet gems in the beautifully stripped back, drumless guitar pop of ‘99% Ok’ and ‘Someone’s Walking’. Just when you think you have the album pegged, the final track ‘Theme’ takes a left turn employing sweeping synths and electronic percussion in some sort of beatific yet melancholic final postcard to the world.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>That Time</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3107117187/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/that-time\">That Time by Tangled Star</a></iframe>\r\nJune 2009\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>That Time</em> sees Tangled Star at their most immediately accessible and deliciously hooky. Like a trapdoor spider hidden by a welcome doormat, the band lay an easy invitation to the unsuspecting listener, only to unleash a series of inimitable pop hooks and subtle detours. The EP typifies Tangled Star’s ability to craft songs that reveal fresh dimensions with each listen.\r\n\r\n<em>That Time</em> features the stunning single ‘seabirdtown’. The track opens with the expansive open-air sound of Pink Floyd-style organs and spatial guitars before falling into an earthbound shuffle and a taste of a lush, full-band sound for Tangled Star. The song’s gradual build to a towering edifice of glowing overdriven guitar, droning organ and harmony vocals is topped off by an echoed guitar line that sketches glistening arcs in the stratosphere. The single is indicative of <em>That Time</em>’s strengths as a louder, more flowing version of the melodic, evocative spaces of Tangled Star’s twilight pop songs.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Our Man From Eden Hill</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 307px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2416987741/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/our-man-in-eden-hill\">Our Man in Eden Hill by Tangled Star</a></iframe>\r\nFebruary 2008\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>Our Man in Eden Hil</em>l sees Tangled Star building on their wonderfully received debut outing through Hidden Shoal, <em>It’s Now or Later</em>. Musically the EP toys with the frayed edges of country, pop and indie, while in part infusing a sense of space and possibility familiar to fans of the classic <em>Dark Side of the Moon</em>. As with their debut EP, <em>Our Man in Eden Hill</em>’s surface often belies its musical and emotional interior. Through its gentle shifts and directed detours, the EP manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset. As chief songwriter and lyricist Craig Hallsworth explains,\r\n\r\n“If these songs are simple, they are only apparently so. To me, they are only beginning to really work when they are able to express a space of becoming... There are strange warnings and advice, mysterious imperatives and entreaties... I see the lyrics as working for and against themselves, as well as for and against the music, generating a plane of momentary, shifting affective states. There is comic desperation folded into offhand profundity. There is something depressing and defeating suddenly transformed into a rare kind of pleasure and privilege. There are secrets with nothing to hide. There is one last chance after another…” - Craig Hallsworth\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>It\'s Now Or Later</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 340px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1686875670/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/its-now-or-later\">It&#39;s Now or Later by Tangled Star</a></iframe>\r\nFebruary 2007\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>It’s Now or Later</em> charts a journey across once familiar land yet through its exultant shifts and wandering detours manages to make everything feel new again. The album’s title talks to the wonderful paradox that is infused within each song both musically and lyrically. This is the apathetic’s guide to caring too much.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">In the late 90s, Outstation (Craig Hallsworth, guitars and singing; Jim Butterworth, bass; Jamie Hamilton, drums), a sonic monstrosity, began playing a lot of quiet tunes, and eventually turned into Tangled Star. Lorne Clements (Hammond Organ, Piano) became involved. Then Jamie Hamilton left, and was replaced by a drum machine, and Jim became its programmer.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">The T-Star quietly went about its business for a few years in Jim’s back shed and in Lorne’s living room. They played only a handful of live shows, but recorded two albums with Alan Smith from Bergerk! Recordings – the self-titled debut, and It’s Now Or Later (to be released through Hidden Shoal Recordings November, 2006).</p>\r\n<strong>Craig Hallsworth:</strong>\r\nBorn 1964 in Collie South-West Western Australia – land that belongs to the Noongar People. Fatally infected with AM radio that plays constantly throughout childhood, in the house and in the car. Begins playing guitar and writing songs around 8 or 9 years of age. Magazines and records. Sitting alone in a room playing and singing into a cassette recorder. String of bands. Loses virginity after a gig at the Narrogin Hotel. Moves to Perth in the mid 80s upon completion of welding apprenticeship in the coal mines. Over next 15 years or so plays in The Bamboos, The Healers, wild palms, Zuvuya, Outstation, Tangled Star, as well as many solo performances and recordings. Currently writing an experimental book-length poem and playing in The Slow Beings.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=tangled-star-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=tangled-star-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Lets_Adjourn.pdf\"><em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> Album Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Head_in_the_Sand.pdf\">‘Head In The Sand’ Single Release</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star_That_Time_EP.pdf\"><em>That Time</em> EP</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Our_Man_in_Eden_Hill_CD_Re-Issue.pdf\"><em>Our Man In Eden Hill</em> EP</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star_Mini_Album.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>It’s Now Or Later</em> Mini-Album Release</a>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery columns=\"2\" ids=\"9201,9196\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\nNo videos yet, sorry!\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nTangled Star\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Tangled Star','','inherit','closed','open','','9181-revision-v1','','','2014-07-18 07:48:43','2014-07-18 07:48:43','',9181,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9181-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9329,1,'2014-07-09 14:14:15','2014-07-09 14:14:15','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Tangled Star</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9196\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/T-Star_Band_Photo1-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Tangled Star\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" /></a><em>“<em>something that ripples, radiates and blossoms amid a dressage of shimmering keys and softly burnt riff cascades which had us much in mind of Hefner shimmying with the Clientele at times.</em>”</em> –<strong> Losing Today<br /> </strong></p><p>Distilling elements of indie rock and alt country married with Craig Hallsworth’s wonderful dust and liquor coated vocals and twisting lyrics, Tangled Star weaves their own magic place. Through the musics exultant shifts and wandering detours the band manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2116748307/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\">Let&#39;s Adjourn to the Garden by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br /> June 2013</p><div> </div><p><em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> sees Craig Hallsworth’s Tangled Star project shift gears while continuing to distill the inimitable songcraft Hallsworth is so well known for. <em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> is, in typically contrarian fashion, their least bucolic offering yet, blending more driving power-pop flavours into their distinctive soup of song. Hallsworth’s wonderful dust-and-liquor-coated vocals and twisting lyrics combine with exultant shifts and melodic detours allowing the music to make once familiar territory somehow foreign and offset.</p><p>Tracks such as ‘Head In The Sand’ and ‘Hasn’t Made For Freedom’ streamline Tangled Star’s brilliant hooks and melodic turns into immediately addictive and electric slices of slow burn power-pop. ‘Attic Space Conversion #1’ exemplifies the band\'s compositional and stylistic shifts even more, stitching rousing ramshackle rock with almost Doors’esque cosmic guitar pop. And there amidst the fuzz and driving drums lay some quiet gems in the beautifully stripped back, drumless guitar pop of ‘99% Ok’ and ‘Someone’s Walking’. Just when you think you have the album pegged, the final track ‘Theme’ takes a left turn employing sweeping synths and electronic percussion in some sort of beatific yet melancholic final postcard to the world.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>That Time</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3107117187/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/that-time\">That Time by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br /> June 2009</p><div> </div><p><em>That Time</em> sees Tangled Star at their most immediately accessible and deliciously hooky. Like a trapdoor spider hidden by a welcome doormat, the band lay an easy invitation to the unsuspecting listener, only to unleash a series of inimitable pop hooks and subtle detours. The EP typifies Tangled Star’s ability to craft songs that reveal fresh dimensions with each listen.</p><p><em>That Time</em> features the stunning single ‘seabirdtown’. The track opens with the expansive open-air sound of Pink Floyd-style organs and spatial guitars before falling into an earthbound shuffle and a taste of a lush, full-band sound for Tangled Star. The song’s gradual build to a towering edifice of glowing overdriven guitar, droning organ and harmony vocals is topped off by an echoed guitar line that sketches glistening arcs in the stratosphere. The single is indicative of <em>That Time</em>’s strengths as a louder, more flowing version of the melodic, evocative spaces of Tangled Star’s twilight pop songs.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Our Man From Eden Hill</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 307px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2416987741/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/our-man-in-eden-hill\">Our Man in Eden Hill by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br /> February 2008</p><div> </div><p><em>Our Man in Eden Hil</em>l sees Tangled Star building on their wonderfully received debut outing through Hidden Shoal, <em>It’s Now or Later</em>. Musically the EP toys with the frayed edges of country, pop and indie, while in part infusing a sense of space and possibility familiar to fans of the classic <em>Dark Side of the Moon</em>. As with their debut EP, <em>Our Man in Eden Hill</em>’s surface often belies its musical and emotional interior. Through its gentle shifts and directed detours, the EP manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset. As chief songwriter and lyricist Craig Hallsworth explains,</p><p>“If these songs are simple, they are only apparently so. To me, they are only beginning to really work when they are able to express a space of becoming... There are strange warnings and advice, mysterious imperatives and entreaties... I see the lyrics as working for and against themselves, as well as for and against the music, generating a plane of momentary, shifting affective states. There is comic desperation folded into offhand profundity. There is something depressing and defeating suddenly transformed into a rare kind of pleasure and privilege. There are secrets with nothing to hide. There is one last chance after another…” - Craig Hallsworth</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>It\'s Now Or Later</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 340px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1686875670/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/its-now-or-later\">It&#39;s Now or Later by Tangled Star</a></iframe><br /> February 2007</p><div> </div><p><em>It’s Now or Later</em> charts a journey across once familiar land yet through its exultant shifts and wandering detours manages to make everything feel new again. The album’s title talks to the wonderful paradox that is infused within each song both musically and lyrically. This is the apathetic’s guide to caring too much.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p align=\"justify\">In the late 90s, Outstation (Craig Hallsworth, guitars and singing; Jim Butterworth, bass; Jamie Hamilton, drums), a sonic monstrosity, began playing a lot of quiet tunes, and eventually turned into Tangled Star. Lorne Clements (Hammond Organ, Piano) became involved. Then Jamie Hamilton left, and was replaced by a drum machine, and Jim became its programmer.</p><p align=\"justify\">The T-Star quietly went about its business for a few years in Jim’s back shed and in Lorne’s living room. They played only a handful of live shows, but recorded two albums with Alan Smith from Bergerk! Recordings – the self-titled debut, and It’s Now Or Later (to be released through Hidden Shoal Recordings November, 2006).</p><p><strong>Craig Hallsworth:</strong><br /> Born 1964 in Collie South-West Western Australia – land that belongs to the Noongar People. Fatally infected with AM radio that plays constantly throughout childhood, in the house and in the car. Begins playing guitar and writing songs around 8 or 9 years of age. Magazines and records. Sitting alone in a room playing and singing into a cassette recorder. String of bands. Loses virginity after a gig at the Narrogin Hotel. Moves to Perth in the mid 80s upon completion of welding apprenticeship in the coal mines. Over next 15 years or so plays in The Bamboos, The Healers, wild palms, Zuvuya, Outstation, Tangled Star, as well as many solo performances and recordings. Currently writing an experimental book-length poem and playing in The Slow Beings.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=tangled-star-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=tangled-star-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Lets_Adjourn.pdf\"><em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Head_in_the_Sand.pdf\">‘Head In The Sand’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star_That_Time_EP.pdf\"><em>That Time</em> EP</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star-Our_Man_in_Eden_Hill_CD_Re-Issue.pdf\"><em>Our Man In Eden Hill</em> EP</a></p><p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Tangled_Star_Mini_Album.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>It’s Now Or Later</em> Mini-Album Release</a>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery columns=\"2\" ids=\"9201,9196\"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p>No videos yet, sorry!</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Tangled Star\'s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Tangled Star','','inherit','open','open','','9181-revision-v1','','','2014-07-09 14:14:15','2014-07-09 14:14:15','',9181,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9181-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9330,1,'2014-07-10 04:48:00','2014-07-10 04:48:00','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Wayne Harriss</h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9331\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/waynebw.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Harriss\" width=\"141\" height=\"196\" /></a><em>“An innate sense of space and melody inhabit these songs. This is dream-pop at its best and a wonderful debut”</em> –<strong> Pieces of Gold</strong>\r\n\r\nWayne Harriss is an ex-Perth-based singer-guitarist-engineer-producer-composer-draftsman. Previously a member  of rock-newcountry-jazz band Resin he explores sonic worlds in his home studio. Projects include the melodic, soundscaped <em>Aerospace</em>, and, with Stu Medley, also a member of Resin, the collaborative dream-jazz-pop of <a title=\"Motor Eye\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/motor-eye/\">Motor Eye</a>.\r\n<a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/waynoss\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8764\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Aerospace</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3518820462/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/aerospace\">Aerospace by Wayne Harriss</a></iframe>\r\nMay 2006\r\n<div></div>\r\nBorn from a relationship breakup and its chaos, post overseas travel, <em>Aerospace</em> is a textural, introspective journey. It is an album that one aurally immerses in. The whole album was an unplanned montage of musical pieces. It explores the simplicity of rich, repetitive instrumental refrains and moods, and layers them with emotive, melodic vocal lines. It doesnt try to impress the listener with clever arrangements but draws the listener. If they wish to. It is ambience without being ambient. It is an album of places and spaces.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nWayne Harriss is an ex-Perth-based singer-guitarist-engineer-producer-composer-draftsman. Previously a member  of rock-newcountry-jazz band Resin he explores sonic worlds in his home studio. Projects include the melodic, soundscaped <em>Aerospace</em>, and, with Stu Medley, also a member of Resin, the collaborative dream-jazz-pop of <a title=\"Motor Eye\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/motor-eye/\">Motor Eye</a>.\r\n\r\nThe process starts from spot-fires, overdubs are fine-tuned on the fly then submerge to the next. Colours awash, yet throughout, each sound is defined, simple, has a place. Sitting exactly placed, between exactly placed speakers, send the lights down, and dive, swim, even drown in sub-marine worlds, weightless shapes, staring at the sun from underwater.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=wayne-harriss-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=wayne-harriss-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_2_May.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Label launch &amp; “Aerospace” release</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery columns=\"2\" ids=\"9339,9338\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\nNo videos yet, sorry!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nWayne Harriss\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Wayne Harriss','','publish','open','open','','wayne-harriss','','','2014-12-26 11:30:39','2014-12-26 03:30:39','',0,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/?post_type=project&#038;p=9330',0,'project','',0),(9340,1,'2014-07-10 05:09:15','2014-07-10 05:09:15','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<br />\r\n<h1>Wayne Harriss</h1>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9331\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/waynebw.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Harriss\" width=\"220\" height=\"306\" /></a><em>“An innate sense of space and melody inhabit these songs. This is dream-pop at its best and a wonderful debut”</em> –<strong> Pieces of Gold</strong></p>\r\n<p>Sitting exactly placed, between exactly placed speakers, send the lights down, and dive, swim, even drown in sub-marine worlds, weightless shapes, staring at the sun from underwater. <a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/waynoss\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8764\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Aerospace</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3518820462/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/aerospace\">Aerospace by Wayne Harriss</a></iframe><br />May 2006</p><div> </div><p>Born from a relationship breakup and its chaos, post overseas travel, <em>Aerospace</em> is a textural, introspective journey. It is an album that one aurally immerses in. The whole album was an unplanned montage of musical pieces. It explores the simplicity of rich, repetitive instrumental refrains and moods, and layers them with emotive, melodic vocal lines. It doesnt try to impress the listener with clever arrangements but draws the listener. If they wish to. It is ambience without being ambient. It is an album of places and spaces.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Wayne Harriss is an ex-Perth-based singer-guitarist-engineer-producer-composer-draftsman. Previously a member  of rock-newcountry-jazz band Resin he explores sonic worlds in his home studio. Projects include the melodic, soundscaped <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=9&amp;products_id=15\"><em>Aerospace</em></a>, and, with Stu Medley, also a member of Resin, the collaborative dream-jazz-pop of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=5&amp;products_id=6\">Motor Eye</a>. The process starts from spot-fires, overdubs are fine-tuned on the fly then submerge to the next. Colours awash, yet throughout, each sound is defined, simple, has a place. Listeners immerse.</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]<h3>News</h3><p>[catlist name=wayne-harriss-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]<h2>Reviews</h2><p>[catlist name=wayne-harriss-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_2_May.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Label launch &amp; “Aerospace” release</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p><p>[gallery columns=\"2\" ids=\"9339,9338\"]</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p>No videos yet, sorry!</p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Wayne Harriss\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Wayne Harriss','','inherit','open','open','','9330-revision-v1','','','2014-07-10 05:09:15','2014-07-10 05:09:15','',9330,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9330-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9337,1,'2014-07-10 05:00:05','2014-07-10 05:00:05','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Wayne Harriss</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9331\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/waynebw.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Harriss\" width=\"220\" height=\"306\" /></a><em>“An innate sense of space and melody inhabit these songs. This is dream-pop at its best and a wonderful debut”</em> –<strong> Pieces of Gold</strong></p><p>Sitting exactly placed, between exactly placed speakers, send the lights down, and dive, swim, even drown in sub-marine worlds, weightless shapes, staring at the sun from underwater. <a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/waynoss\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8764\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe></p>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe></p>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.</p>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe></p>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>Antonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming.</p>\r\n<p>Debut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">EP </a> <em><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf\">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\">‘Endlessly’ Single</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf\">Antonymes Signing</a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n[gallery ids=\"8222,8221,8220,8219\"]\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Antonymes music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Wayne Harriss','','inherit','open','open','','9330-revision-v1','','','2014-07-10 05:00:05','2014-07-10 05:00:05','',9330,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9330-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9332,1,'2014-07-10 04:48:00','2014-07-10 04:48:00','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Wayne Harriss</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9331\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/waynebw.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Harriss\" width=\"220\" height=\"306\" /></a><em>“An innate sense of space and melody inhabit these songs. This is dream-pop at its best and a wonderful debut”</em> –<strong> Pieces of Gold</strong></p><p>Sitting exactly placed, between exactly placed speakers, send the lights down, and dive, swim, even drown in sub-marine worlds, weightless shapes, staring at the sun from underwater. <strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Antonymes/108567235841143?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8763\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/Antonymes\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8766\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/antonymes\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8764\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.antonymes.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8767\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\nCreated from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It 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.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It 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.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\nAntonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming.\r\n\r\nDebut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">EP </a> <em><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf\">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\">‘Endlessly’ Single</a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf\">Antonymes Signing</a>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[gallery ids=\"8222,8221,8220,8219\"]\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\nAntonymes music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Wayne Harriss','','inherit','open','open','','9330-revision-v1','','','2014-07-10 04:48:00','2014-07-10 04:48:00','',9330,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9330-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9331,1,'2014-07-10 04:43:14','2014-07-10 04:43:14','','Wayne Harriss','','inherit','open','open','','waynebw','','','2014-07-10 04:43:14','2014-07-10 04:43:14','',9330,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/waynebw.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9333,1,'2014-07-10 04:57:05','2014-07-10 04:57:05','<em>“It\'s clear that Harriss is a craftsman. On his debut solo album h<em>e presents</em> a kind of thoughtful melancholy across it\'s 10 track breadth... There is an innate sense of space and melody inhabit these songs. This is dream-pop at its best and a wonderful debut.”</em>\r\n\r\n–<strong> Pieces of Gold</strong>','Wayne Harriss \"Aerospace\" Reviewed at Pieces of Gold','','publish','open','open','','wayne-harriss-aerospace-reviewed-at-pieces-of-gold','','','2014-07-10 04:57:05','2014-07-10 04:57:05','',0,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/?p=9333',0,'post','',0),(9334,1,'2014-07-10 04:57:05','2014-07-10 04:57:05','<em>“It\'s clear that Harriss is a craftsman. On his debut solo album h<em>e presents</em> a kind of thoughtful melancholy across it\'s 10 track breadth... There is an innate sense of space and melody inhabit these songs. 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This is dream-pop at its best and a wonderful debut”</em> –<strong> Pieces of Gold</strong></p><p>Wayne Harriss is an ex-Perth-based singer-guitarist-engineer-producer-composer-draftsman. Previously a member  of rock-newcountry-jazz band Resin he explores sonic worlds in his home studio. Projects include the melodic, soundscaped <em>Aerospace</em>, and, with Stu Medley, also a member of Resin, the collaborative dream-jazz-pop of Motor Eye.<br /> <a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/waynoss\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8764\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a></p><p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]</p><h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Aerospace</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3518820462/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/aerospace\">Aerospace by Wayne Harriss</a></iframe><br />May 2006</p><div> </div><p>Born from a relationship breakup and its chaos, post overseas travel, <em>Aerospace</em> is a textural, introspective journey. It is an album that one aurally immerses in. The whole album was an unplanned montage of musical pieces. It explores the simplicity of rich, repetitive instrumental refrains and moods, and layers them with emotive, melodic vocal lines. It doesnt try to impress the listener with clever arrangements but draws the listener. If they wish to. It is ambience without being ambient. It is an album of places and spaces.</p><p> </p><p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]</p><h3>Biography</h3><p>Wayne Harriss is an ex-Perth-based singer-guitarist-engineer-producer-composer-draftsman. Previously a member  of rock-newcountry-jazz band Resin he explores sonic worlds in his home studio. Projects include the melodic, soundscaped <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=9&amp;products_id=15\"><em>Aerospace</em></a>, and, with Stu Medley, also a member of Resin, the collaborative dream-jazz-pop of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=5&amp;products_id=6\">Motor Eye</a>. The process starts from spot-fires, overdubs are fine-tuned on the fly then submerge to the next. Colours awash, yet throughout, each sound is defined, simple, has a place. Listeners immerse.</p><p> </p><p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]</p><h3>News</h3><p>[catlist name=wayne-harriss-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]<br /> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]</p><h2>Reviews</h2><p>[catlist name=wayne-harriss-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]<br /> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]</p><h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_2_May.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Label launch &amp; “Aerospace” release</a></p><p> </p><p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]</p><h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p><div class=\"wpview-wrap wpview-type-gallery\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-wpview-text=\"%5Bgallery%20columns%3D%222%22%20ids%3D%229339%2C9338%22%5D\" data-wpview-type=\"gallery\"><div class=\"toolbar\"> </div><div class=\"gallery gallery-columns-2\"><dl class=\"gallery-item\"><dt class=\"gallery-icon\"><img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/waynoss-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\"></dd></dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\"><dt class=\"gallery-icon\"><img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/waynebw1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\"></dd></dl></div><ins data-wpview-end=\"1\"></ins></div><p><br /> [/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]</p><h3>Music Videos</h3><p>No videos yet, sorry!</p><p> </p><p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]</p><h3>Licensing</h3><p>Wayne Harriss\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p><p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"dark\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]</p>','Wayne Harriss','','inherit','open','open','','9330-autosave-v1','','','2014-07-10 05:46:52','2014-07-10 05:46:52','',9330,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9330-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9342,1,'2014-07-10 05:44:28','2014-07-10 05:44:28','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Wayne Harriss</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9331\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/waynebw.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Harriss\" width=\"141\" height=\"196\" /></a><em>“An innate sense of space and melody inhabit these songs. This is dream-pop at its best and a wonderful debut”</em> –<strong> Pieces of Gold</strong></p><p>Wayne Harriss is an ex-Perth-based singer-guitarist-engineer-producer-composer-draftsman. Previously a member  of rock-newcountry-jazz band Resin he explores sonic worlds in his home studio. Projects include the melodic, soundscaped <em>Aerospace</em>, and, with Stu Medley, also a member of Resin, the collaborative dream-jazz-pop of Motor Eye.<br /> <a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/waynoss\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8764\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<h4>Aerospace</h4>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3518820462/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/aerospace\">Aerospace by Wayne Harriss</a></iframe><br />May 2006</p>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<p>Born from a relationship breakup and its chaos, post overseas travel, <em>Aerospace</em> is a textural, introspective journey. It is an album that one aurally immerses in. The whole album was an unplanned montage of musical pieces. It explores the simplicity of rich, repetitive instrumental refrains and moods, and layers them with emotive, melodic vocal lines. It doesnt try to impress the listener with clever arrangements but draws the listener. If they wish to. It is ambience without being ambient. It is an album of places and spaces.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>Wayne Harriss is an ex-Perth-based singer-guitarist-engineer-producer-composer-draftsman. Previously a member  of rock-newcountry-jazz band Resin he explores sonic worlds in his home studio. Projects include the melodic, soundscaped <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=9&amp;products_id=15\"><em>Aerospace</em></a>, and, with Stu Medley, also a member of Resin, the collaborative dream-jazz-pop of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=5&amp;products_id=6\">Motor Eye</a>. The process starts from spot-fires, overdubs are fine-tuned on the fly then submerge to the next. Colours awash, yet throughout, each sound is defined, simple, has a place. Listeners immerse.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=wayne-harriss-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]<br />\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=wayne-harriss-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]<br />\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_2_May.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Label launch &amp; “Aerospace” release</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[gallery columns=\"2\" ids=\"9339,9338\"]<br />\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<p>No videos yet, sorry!</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Wayne Harriss\'s music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. 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