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<h1>Antonymes</h1>
<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>
<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.[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="dark" text_orientation="left"]
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[/et_pb_text][et_pb_tabs admin_label="Artist Tabs"][et_pb_tab title="Discography"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Voices Out There</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 600px; height: 472px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2741704818/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/voices-out-there">Voices Out There by [The] Caseworker</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><em>Voices Out There</em> sees [The] Caseworker rein in the lo-fi guitar-pop impulses of acclaimed third album <em>Letters From The Coast</em> to explore a more expansive, minimal sound, akin to Conor and Eimer Devlin’s previous band Half Film. The band maintain their enigmatic intimacy and atmosphere, while suggesting haunting vistas just beyond the horizons of these succinct, sad songs. The lyrical themes explored on the album are a continuation of their previous preoccupations – reflection, rootlessness, memory – while also being coloured by Conor Devlin’s experience of recovering from a serious car accident in 2012.</p><p>First single ‘Dependence Day’ marries [The] Caseworker’s trademark restraint with a strident, slowburning melodic sensibility, while the title track vividly surveys the morphine hallucinations Conor experienced while confined to a hospital bed in Switzerland. The album’s chiming guitars, gently bobbing rhythm section and warm yet dislocated vocals from both Conor and Eimer Devlin generate a sense of intimacy and fragility that is deeply affecting. What’s most apparent on these songs is of a band in absolute control of their craft, able to derive maximum emotional heft from minimal ingredients.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Letters From The Coast</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 600px; height: 540px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1344164510/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast">Letters From The Coast by [The] Caseworker</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>On their third album <em>Letters From The Coast</em>, garage-dreampop trio [The] Caseworker exude the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label - the perfect balance of drone and chime. The band creates an enigmatic intimacy and atmosphere, which they wrap around immaculately crafted pop songs like smoke. Perfectly intoxicating.</p><p>With opening track and lead single ‘National Runner’, [The] Caseworker have an instant pop classic on their hands. The song’s consummate mix of hypnotic guitars and driving rhythm section are perfectly balanced with Conor Devlin’s starry-eyed vocal. Elsewhere, bassist Eimer Devlin assumes lead vocal duties for ‘The Slow Track’ and ‘Sea Years’, both reminiscent of prime Yo La Tengo, while standout ‘Boats’ carries the listener away on its buoyant yet melancholic waves of arpeggios and feedback. The album exudes a wonderful sense of timelessness and romanticism - these are songs to attach memories to.</p><p><em>“[The] Caseworker extract darkness from inside whispery, ambient pop… completely enraptured and awesomely dazed”</em> – <strong>Rolling Stone</strong></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.</p>
<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>
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<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> 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"]
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<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.</p>
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