[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>perth</h1><p><a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/perth-Remixed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-9095" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Perth_3-300x225.jpg" alt="perth" width="296" height="222" /></a><em>“Every part of this record coalesces together strangely, perfectly. And even among the towering, cinematic instrumentals – <i>perth</i> still craft a weird sense of sparseness that makes this sound like a bunch of opiate-swilling krautrock kings running down a sand dune.”</em> –<strong> Who The Hell<br /> </strong></p><p>Australian outfit perth shift effortlessly between psychedelic pop, folk-laced electronica and shoegaze, melding these disparate genres into a beautifully cohesive statement. The band’s magic lies in their ability to refract the individual members’ unique sensibilities through an experimental lens.</p><p><strong><a title="Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/perthband" 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="SoundCloud" href="http://www.soundcloud.com/perth" 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>   </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>Where's My Dystopia?</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 472px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4283625682/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/wheres-my-dystopia">Where's My Dystopia? by perth</a></iframe><br /> May 2014</p><div> </div><p><em>Where’s My Dystopia?</em> by Australian outfit perth, comprises remixes of tracks from the band’s acclaimed second album <em>What’s Your Utopia?</em> What’s most startling about <em>Where’s My Dystopia?</em> is not only how beautifully it complements the original album, but also how well the remixes work together as an integrated whole. This is a reimagined journey through the musical landscape of the original album rather than a collection of disparate snapshots. <em>Where’s My Dystopia?</em> includes the single ‘Drank, Kites And Tomorrow’ remixed by GUM (Tame Impala and Pond’s Jay Watson) alongside radical reworkings by Seams, Filter Beds, Water Graves, Mei Saraswati, Valerio Cosi, Usurper of Modern Medicine, No. 9, Ghost Drums and Mental Powers.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>What's Your Utopia?</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 439px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1996143844/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/whats-your-utopia">What's Your Utopia? by perth</a></iframe><br /> November 2013</p><div> </div><p>Australian experimental pop outfit perth deliver their sophomore album <em>What’s Your Utopia?</em>. The band have managed to meld psychedelic pop, folk-laced electronica and shoegaze into a beautifully cohesive statement – a tribute to the idea of a fond place, or utopia, quietly residing in ‘no place’, beyond ourselves. The band’s magic lies in their ability to refract the individual members’ unique sensibilities through an experimental lens; kaleidoscopic sound design is matched by the band’s songwriting dexterity throughout the album’s nine tracks.</p><p>Single and opening salvo ‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow’ summons forth glowing brass arrangements, reverb-drenched vocals and skittering breakbeats crafted from found sounds, building into a krautrock jam reminiscent of Neu! and Caribou. The gorgeous ‘Saw Promenade’ reimagines the shimmering vibes of prime Tortoise on an Australian beach, while ‘Greasy Moon’ is an echoing, disorientating, addictive stomp. Finale ‘Viewmaster’ mutates from brittle, spectral space-folk into a heartbreaking robot waltz, before dissolving then regrouping into a delirious droning coda.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Bio"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Spawning from intercontinental collaboration, perth’s 2012 debut LP, <em>Babes, Water, Waves</em>, was born in many locations other than their eponymous hometown. However, geographical separation failed to distance the musical sentiments shared between three members of Apricot Rail (Matthew Saville, Justin Manzano and Jack Quirk) and songwriter Michael Dolan. A dual sense of triumph and melancholy permeated <em>Babes, Water, Waves</em>, conveyed through combining traditional instrumentation and pop structure with warbling organic samples, hissing analogue keys, found sounds and woozy vocal harmonies.</p><p>The band’s second album, w<em>hat’s your utopia?</em>, takes an eclectic approach to organic electronic music while evolving its scope and clarity. Recorded in a variety of locations, from a desolate cabin perched upon the surly south-west Australian coast to the glow of Studio 373 in Perth, the album was then mixed by the band’s Justin Manzano before being mastered by Simon Struthers (Mukaizake, Umpire) of Forensic Audio.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="News"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=perth-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]<p style="text-align: right;"><a title="perth News" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/news/perth-news/"><strong>More News</strong></a></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Reviews"]<h2>Reviews</h2><p>[catlist name=perth-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]</p><p style="text-align: right;"><strong><a title="perth Reviews" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/reviews/perth-reviews/">More Reviews</a></strong></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Press Releases"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/perth-Wheres_My_Dystopia_Press_Release.pdf"><em>Where’s My Dystopia?</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Perth-Drank_and_Kites_and_Tomorrow_GUM_Remix.pdf">‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow (GUM Remix)’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Perth-Whats_Your_Utopia.pdf"><em>What’s Your Utopia?</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Perth-Greasy_Moon.pdf">‘Greasy Moon’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-perth-Dranks_and_Kites_and_Tomorrow.pdf">‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow’ Single Release</a>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Gallery"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids="9100,9101,9102,9103"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Video"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ep6EpVZtJzE?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Licensing"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>perth'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="light" module_id="shoalsidebar" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]