[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></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></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></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></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]