(6353,1,'2013-02-26 14:53:28','2013-02-26 14:53:28','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/off_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Markus Mehr\'s sublime new album <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\">Off</a> </em>has received another glowing and wonderfully engaged review, this time over at the always excellent Hypnagogue. Check out the excerpt below to get you started, then read the whole review <a href=\"http://hypnagogue.net/2013/02/20/markus-mehr-off-2/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n<em>\"Listening to Off is a challenge, but it’s an incredibly rewarding one. The balance is tricky, because the opposite ends of this equation are the far ends, but Mehr makes its work perfectly. You are pummeled with the unyielding intrusion of blatantly non-musical noise, and you are salved with the reassuring solidity of the piano, and somehow it makes sense. Yes, it requires an open approach to music. If you like it pat and simple, this won’t work for you. And maybe it’s not supposed to. The triptych as a whole has been slim on easy access points, but that’s also a hallmark of Mehr’s work–he’s not easy to listen to. He is, however, well worth the effort, and Off is perhaps Mehr at his most stunning.\" - </em><strong>Hypangogue</strong>\n\nStream <em>Off</em> and get your copy of the limited edition CD release or digital package <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\">here</a>.','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;Off&quot; Reviewed in Hypnagogue','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehrs-off-reviewed-in-hypnagogue','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6353',0,'post','',0),(6367,1,'2013-03-05 13:19:32','2013-03-05 13:19:32','\"Third part of the Augsburg-based ambient composer’s conceptual trilogy (following <em>In </em>and <em>On</em>), which consists of a single 42 minute opus.\n\nIt’s hard to do justice to the range of sounds you’ll find here – tremendous, rumbling, industrial atmospherics forming most of the backdrop; plaintiff, space-age whines; kosmische melodies; classical piano; a choir of voices. For something that’s so abstract on paper - and so steadfast and glacial in its pacing - it connects brilliantly with the listener, prompting all kinds of emotional and philosophical responses. It makes you wish some film maker would use the music as a template for an exploration of the origin, or the meaning, of space, earth, life, the cosmos – it would undoubtedly make for an epic, soaring, awe-inspiring journey. \"\n\n-<a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.ie/2013/02/markus-mehr-off-hidden-shoal.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Underground of Happiness</strong></a>','Markus Mehr &quot;Off&quot; Reviewed at Underground of Happiness','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-off-reviewed-at-underground-of-happiness','','','2013-03-05 13:19:32','2013-03-05 13:19:32','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6367',0,'post','',0),(6370,1,'2013-03-05 13:57:48','2013-03-05 13:57:48','\"The suffused and vaguely crepuscolar opening on gentle piano strokes and thin chinks of the initial \"Velar\" and the charmingly rustic twining of string saw, warm deep tones, accordion and banjo flowerheads, a dainty percussive nixer on the following \"String And Stone\" embarks listeners on the musical universe of Terrane, whose name comes from a geological term to describe a fragment of a tectonic plate which get \"sutured\" (normally after a process of subduction) to crust lying on another plate, by Gilded, a West Australian duo by experimental musicians Matt Roesner, whose sonic researches, focused on field recordings and guitars, partially flowed into labels like Room40, Apestaartje, 12K, Meupe and Miatera, and Adam Trainer, one of the founding member of Perth-based post-rock outfit Radarmaker. Ideally lying on the boundaries between the styles by Cinematic Orchestra, Greg Haines, Piano Interrupted and similar august satellites orbiting around conglomerates of minimalism, visionary lyricism and ambient, the sound they carefully mould on this lovely release constantly oscillates between melodic suspensions, emotional tension and pastoral idylls, which sounds like rushing from heaven-given creative sparks (\"Dew Cloud\", \"Straight Crest\", \"Tyne\"), earthly dampers (\"Road Movie\", \"Expanded Contract\"), bucolic effusions (\"Cluttered Room\", \"Moth Food\"), which evokes a constant feasting by tender sensibilities with contingent halts. This is undoubtedly a recommendable listening for dreamlike personal odysseys. \"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=7469\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chain D.L.K.</strong></a>','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; Reviewed by Chain D.L.K.','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-reviewed-by-chain-d-l-k','','','2013-03-05 13:57:48','2013-03-05 13:57:48','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6370',0,'post','',0),(6373,1,'2013-03-05 14:07:26','2013-03-05 14:07:26','\"...I would almost hesitate to call this new release post-rock.  Post-rock music in its purest form is highly processed and heavily distorted instrumental rock music that more often than not hints at a coming apocalypse.  Apricot Rail has crafted an interesting release in instrumental music that eschews the heavy distortion for more organic instrumental melodies with just enough feedback to provide a sweeping atmospheric texture.\n\nVocals, while sparse, only serve to accentuate certain melodies without playing an integral part in the sound as a whole.  This is immediately evident from the opening bars of the very first track.  Another thing that stands out with this release is that this band is not afraid to experiment with lullaby-style electronic harmonies or unconventional instrumentation.  More than one track includes strings and several feature full-on horn sections.  This creates yet another interesting dynamic in the music.  During <em>Cicadas...Part II, </em>a horn section almost had me convinced that I was listening to an odd rendering of The Beatles\' <em>Strawberry Fields.</em>  This was a rather astute observation considering that I\'m not a Beatles fan.\n\nThis album almost literally renders me speechless.  It is that good.  There is something in this music for everyone.  I can\'t find a single beef with the flow of this album.  \"Quarrels\" is certainly an early candidate to make our year-end list.  This is extremely impressive music from a relatively unknown band.  The music beautiful and uplifting in ways that most post-rock fails or does not care to attempt.  If you like instrumental music of any kind, you MUST check this out...\"\n\n-<strong> <a href=\"http://thinkmuzik.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/apricot-rail-quarrels-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">Think Muzik</a></strong>','Apricot Rail &quot;Quarrels&quot; Reviewed by Think Muzik','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-quarrels-reviewed-by-think-muzik','','','2013-03-05 14:07:26','2013-03-05 14:07:26','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6373',0,'post','',0),(6376,1,'2013-03-07 03:11:17','2013-03-07 03:11:17','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Liam Singer - \'Stranger I Know\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/lsstranger_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of the new single ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\">Stranger I Know</a>’ by Queens-based chamber-pop experimentalist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Liam Singer</a>, taken from his forthcoming fourth album <em>Arc Iris</em>. The track is available now to <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know\" target=\"_blank\">stream</a> and as a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\">free download</a>.\n\n‘Stranger I Know’ first tip-toes tentatively along your spine, before climbing into your chest and delicately massaging your heart with ghostly choral voices and chiming, resonant melodies. It exhibits all the hallmarks of Liam Singer’s swooningly beautiful musical universe, while demonstrating how a pop song can still introduce unique, dynamic musical juxtapositions in under three minutes.\n\n‘Stranger I Know’ is the first track to be taken from Liam Singer’s new album <em>Arc Iris</em>, the follow-up to the acclaimed <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=155\"><em>Dislocatia</em></a>. Once again produced by Scott Solter, <em>Arc Iris</em> is rich in wondrous, resonant details and dizzyingly deft songcraft. It’s rare to find such arresting compositional talent married not only to an innate sense of melody and emotion, but also to a keen sense of texture and atmosphere. <em>Arc Iris</em> merges these elements and blurs any lines that divide them. A sonic collaboration with Scott Solter, the album evolved over the course of ten months, with the extensive layering and tweaking of sounds and arrangements, including the invention of an electronically-aided glass harmonica! Sonically, the album exists in a sort of hallucinatory haze, influenced by both <em>The Soft Bulletin</em> and <em>Pet Sounds</em>, yet resembling neither.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know[/soundcloud]','New Liam Singer Single - Free Download!','','draft','closed','open','','new-liam-singer-single-free-download','','','2014-08-01 02:34:08','2014-08-01 02:34:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6376',0,'post','',0),(6391,1,'2013-03-12 09:07:19','2013-03-12 09:07:19','The brilliant music video for Circus Devils \'Let\'s Go Back To Bed\' lifted off the forthcoming <em>I Razor</em> soundtrack has been featured in the always reliable <a href=\"http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2013/03/08/film-at-11-circus-devils/\" target=\"_blank\">Magnet Magazine</a>. This comes just days before the first official single from the <em>I Razor</em> soundtrack is released (14th March), the Circus Devils track \'All The Good Ones Are Gone\'.\n\nFor the uninitiated<em> I Razor</em> is the no-budget experimental feature film directed by <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a>.<em> </em>The <em>I Razor </em>soundtrack, to be released by Hidden Shoal in May 2013, comprises work by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils featuring  vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the bands existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging.\n\n<iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"></iframe>','Circus Devils Music Video Featured at Magnet Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','circus-devils-music-video-featured-at-magnet-magazine','','','2016-02-03 16:39:54','2016-02-03 08:39:54','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6391',0,'post','',0),(6395,1,'2013-03-14 02:22:24','2013-03-14 02:22:24','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/allthegoodones_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"145\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announced the release of the new single ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ by Robert Pollard-led Circus Devils, taken from the forthcoming <em>I Razor</em> soundtrack. Fans can download the track for free from the <a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ is the first official cut from the soundtrack to<em> I Razor</em>, the no-budget experimental feature film directed by <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a>. The track finds Circus Devils at their most introspective, as Robert Pollard’s unmistakably commanding and affecting vocals and wonderful lyrical play roll out over beds of melancholic sequenced piano and synth courtesy of Todd Tobias. ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ soundtracks the final sequence of <em>I Razor</em>, providing a beautifully reflective and suitably dreamy cinematic finale. This is some of Pollard and Tobias’s most nuanced work to date.\n\n<em>“Wistful, pretty, and melancholy, Pollard lets loose a truly affecting melody with a wonderfully natural delivery. It’s been said over and over again that he makes it look easy -- and even after years and years of songwriting, tracks like ‘You First’ indicate that he’s far from reaching a brick wall.”</em> – <strong>Pitchfork on <em>Ringworm Interiors</em></strong>\n\nThe <em>I Razor</em> soundtrack, to be released by Hidden Shoal in May 2013, comprises work by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the band’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/circus-devils-all-the-good[/soundcloud]\n\n<strong>Circus Devils - \'All The Good Ones Are Gone\'</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','New Circus Devils Single Featuring Robert Pollard - Free Download!','','publish','closed','open','','new-circus-devils-single-featuring-robert-pollard-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:39:55','2016-02-03 08:39:55','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6395',0,'post','',0),(6408,1,'2013-03-18 03:42:50','2013-03-18 03:42:50','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/off.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Markus Mehr\'s sublime 2013 release <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\">Off</a> </em>has just received another glowing review, this time over at the excellent German blog <a href=\"http://kulturterrorismus.de/rezensionen/markus-mehr-off.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cultural Terrorism</a>. The review is in German however we have some translated excerpts <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/archive/markus-mehr-off-reviewed-at-cultural-terrorism/\">here</a>.\n\nThere are still a small amount of of the limited edition CD release of <em>Off </em>so please head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to secure your copy. If digital is your thing we also have the the album available in <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\">mp3 &amp; FLAC formats</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-off-excerpt[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Markus Mehr <em>Off</em> (excerpt)</strong>','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;Off&quot; Reviewed at Cultural Terrorism','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehrs-off-reviewed-at-cultural-terrorism','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6408',0,'post','',0),(6410,1,'2013-03-18 03:23:17','2013-03-18 03:23:17','[Translated excerpts from the original German review]\n\n\"<em>Off,</em> as with the two preceding parts [<em>In </em>&amp;<em> On</em>], is available as a download &amp; a stylishly designed CD-R in digipak on Australian label Hidden Shoal Recordings... Markus Mehr, a native of Augsburg, is surely  one of the currently most exciting discoveries in atmospheric drone &amp; ambient around at the moment....The strength lies again in the immense intensity of his soundscapes - the shimmering, rising and falling drones produce through their multiple layers like a swell, almost wall-like intoxicating effect, yet without being destructive. Elements are subtley changing between the poles of enraptured relaxation and dissonant confusion, of beauty and menace. In this universe of sound the ear moves from detail to detail and loses itself more and more into a trance...Markus Mehrs <em>Off</em> is an absolutely fitting end to a consistently intense trilogy. It finds no noisy climax, but instead pours out in a slow trickle. <em>Off</em> combines all of Mehr\'s strengths, connecting all three parts together and proves once again the international class of Markus Mehr. Absolutely recommended!\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://kulturterrorismus.de/rezensionen/markus-mehr-off.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cultural Terrorism</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;Off&quot; Reviewed at Cultural Terrorism','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-off-reviewed-at-cultural-terrorism','','','2013-03-18 03:23:17','2013-03-18 03:23:17','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6410',0,'post','',0),(6417,1,'2013-03-18 04:11:33','2013-03-18 04:11:33','\"Gifted and accessible, Liam Singer is the kind of musician for whom Fingertips exists. We are assaulted by endless sound, we are inundated by generic, laptop-fueled creations, we have abandoned meaning for virality and melody for sensation, and yet even here, in this crazed inferno, exist some (hat tip to old friend Italo Calvino) who are not inferno. I try to find these folks every week or so, to give them space and help them endure, and Liam Singer pretty much epitomizes the mission.\n\nHere’s a guy who can begin with a keyboard refrain all but Bachian in its playful convolution (in what appears to be 6/4 time no less), find a melody to sing on top of the refrain, add a chorus too severely syncopated ever to sing along with, float woodwinds and angelic backing vocals through the artfully conceived soundscape, use a cello without showing off, and wrap the whole enterprise up in less than three minutes. And it’s seriously beautiful. As the lyrics glide in and out of comprehension, there’s an air of something out of time here. The title refers not to a “stranger I know” but is the beginning of a sentence addressing this stranger, and as such conveys the flavor of some centuries-old ballad (an impression reinforced by the apparent use of the pronoun “thy”). At the same time there’s something not only modern but brand-new seeming in the song’s sprightly lift and distinctive construction. A winner start to finish.\n\n“Stranger I Know” is the first track made available from the album Arc Iris, which is scheduled for release in July by Hidden Shoals Recordings. Singer was born in Oregon and is based in Queens, NY; this will be his fourth album. He was previously featured on Fingertips in September 2010.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.fingertipsmusic.com/?p=14204\" target=\"_blank\">Fingertips Music</a>','Liam Singer &#039;Stranger I Know&#039; Reviewed at Fingertips Music','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-stranger-i-know-reviewed-at-fingertips-music','','','2013-03-18 04:11:33','2013-03-18 04:11:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6417',0,'post','',0),(6419,1,'2013-03-18 04:16:51','2013-03-18 04:16:51','Check out this wonderful review of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Liam Singer</a>\'s new single \'<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\">Stranger I Know</a>\' over at the always excellent <a href=\"http://www.fingertipsmusic.com/?p=14204\" target=\"_blank\">Fingertips Music</a> (a must read in our book). Here\'s a taste:\n\n<em>\"Here’s a guy who can begin with a keyboard refrain all but Bachian in its playful convolution (in what appears to be 6/4 time no less), find a melody to sing on top of the refrain, add a chorus too severely syncopated ever to sing along with, float woodwinds and angelic backing vocals through the artfully conceived soundscape, use a cello without showing off, and wrap the whole enterprise up in less than three minutes. And it’s seriously beautiful.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.fingertipsmusic.com/?p=14204\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fingertips Music</strong></a>\n\n\'Stranger I Know\' is lifted off Liam Singer\'s forthcoming fourth album Arc Iris (July 2013). The track is available as a free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Liam Singer \'Stranger I Know\'</strong>','Liam Singer Single Reviewed at Fingertips Music','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singer-single-reviewed-at-fingertips-music','','','2014-08-01 02:34:08','2014-08-01 02:34:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6419',0,'post','',0),(10149,1,'2014-08-01 02:34:08','2014-08-01 02:34:08','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Liam Singer - \'Stranger I Know\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/lsstranger_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of the new single ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\">Stranger I Know</a>’ by Queens-based chamber-pop experimentalist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Liam Singer</a>, taken from his forthcoming fourth album <em>Arc Iris</em>. The track is available now to <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know\" target=\"_blank\">stream</a> and as a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\">free download</a>.\n\n‘Stranger I Know’ first tip-toes tentatively along your spine, before climbing into your chest and delicately massaging your heart with ghostly choral voices and chiming, resonant melodies. It exhibits all the hallmarks of Liam Singer’s swooningly beautiful musical universe, while demonstrating how a pop song can still introduce unique, dynamic musical juxtapositions in under three minutes.\n\n‘Stranger I Know’ is the first track to be taken from Liam Singer’s new album <em>Arc Iris</em>, the follow-up to the acclaimed <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=155\"><em>Dislocatia</em></a>. Once again produced by Scott Solter, <em>Arc Iris</em> is rich in wondrous, resonant details and dizzyingly deft songcraft. It’s rare to find such arresting compositional talent married not only to an innate sense of melody and emotion, but also to a keen sense of texture and atmosphere. <em>Arc Iris</em> merges these elements and blurs any lines that divide them. A sonic collaboration with Scott Solter, the album evolved over the course of ten months, with the extensive layering and tweaking of sounds and arrangements, including the invention of an electronically-aided glass harmonica! Sonically, the album exists in a sort of hallucinatory haze, influenced by both <em>The Soft Bulletin</em> and <em>Pet Sounds</em>, yet resembling neither.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know[/soundcloud]','New Liam Singer Single - Free Download!','','inherit','closed','closed','','6376-revision-v1','','','2014-08-01 02:34:08','2014-08-01 02:34:08','',6376,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/6376-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6424,1,'2013-03-18 04:24:26','2013-03-18 04:24:26','\"Dream Pop is an odd thing. Why would anyone want to perpetuate the idea that their music initiates sleep? I enjoy a few ZZZs, but I generally don’t like my music to produce that desired effect.\n\nThankfully, <em>Monocle</em> is far from a sleep narcotic. Released by the always awesome Australian label <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/\">Hidden Shoal</a>, the band chases sweeping synth lines with dance centered bass and vocal melodies. This may be Dream Pop, but it would fit well into any party that reaches the 23rd hour and exposes the emotional passion only the evening hours pooled with alcohol can construct. “Chances Glide” only needs a moment’s glance to recognize its pop authenticity, and with that, a simple three minute musical bliss.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://spacerockmountain.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/monocle-chances-glide-2013.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SpaceRockMountain</strong></a>','Monocle &#039;Chances Glide&#039; Reviewed at SpaceRockMountain','','draft','closed','open','','monocle-chances-glide-reviewed-at-spacerockmountain','','','2014-08-01 02:21:38','2014-08-01 02:21:38','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6424',0,'post','',0),(6428,1,'2013-03-18 07:13:29','2013-03-18 07:13:29','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Apricot Rail\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/apricot-rail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"122\" />The lovely <a href=\"http://kenmcguire.ie\" target=\"_blank\">Ken McGuire</a> has featured two Hidden Shoal artists over the last week on his Listening Post blog. The first single taken from the forthcoming <em>I Razor</em> soundtrack, Circus Devils \'All The Good Ones Are Gone\', was given a <a href=\"http://kenmcguire.ie/circus-devils-all-the-good-ones-are-gone/\" target=\"_blank\">lovely little write up</a>, followed by <a href=\"http://kenmcguire.ie/fresh-fruit-apricot-rail/\" target=\"_blank\">love for the Apricot Rail track</a> \'Running With an Egg on a Spoon\' and their new album <em>Quarrels</em>.\n\n<em>\"Piano intros always get me. So too has All The Good Ones Are Gone the latest single release from Circus Devils, led by Guided By Voices’ Robert Pollard. Steeped in melancholy, this is the first track to come from the I Razor soundtrack which features works from brothers Tim and Todd Tobias (on piano and synth here) and Circus Devils.\"</em> - <strong>Ken McGuire on Circus Devils \'All The Good Ones Are Gone\'</strong>\n\nCircus Devils \'All The Good Ones Are Gone\' is available now for <a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\" target=\"_blank\">free download</a> ahead of the <em>I Razor</em> soundtrack release on the 16th May. Apricot Rail\'s stunning sophomore album <em>Quarrels</em> is available now in<a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\"> CD and digital formats</a> and the first single \'Basket Press\' is also available for <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/basket-press-single\">free download</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/apricot-rail-running-with-an[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Apricot Rail - \'Running With An Egg On A Spoon\'</strong>\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/circus-devils-all-the-good[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Circus Devils \'All The Good Ones Are Gone\'</strong>','Apricot Rail and Circus Devils Featured on the Ken McGuire Blog','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-and-circus-devils-featured-on-the-ken-mcguire-blog','','','2016-02-03 16:39:54','2016-02-03 08:39:54','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6428',0,'post','',0),(6430,1,'2013-03-18 07:21:43','2013-03-18 07:21:43','\"Queens-based chamber pop artist Liam Singer delivers another deliriously beautiful adventure in song composition, filled with angelic choirs, tripping xylophone, thudding double bass and solemn notes of cello. This tune, for fans of Patrick Watson, Sufjan Stevens and Patrick Wolf is taken from Singer’s forthcoming sophomore album, <em>Arc Iris</em>.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.beat.com.au/music/liam-singer-stranger-i-know\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beat Magazine</strong></a>','Liam Singer &quot;Stranger I Know&#039; Reviewed at Beat Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-stranger-i-know-reviewed-at-beat-magazine','','','2013-03-18 07:21:43','2013-03-18 07:21:43','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6430',0,'post','',0),(6432,1,'2013-03-18 07:29:33','2013-03-18 07:29:33','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Liam Singer\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/liam-singer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"147\" />Liam Singer\'s brand new single \'Stranger I Know\' continues to turn ears. This time it\'s scooped a beautiful little review from Melbourne\'s Beat Magazine who once again pour love over Liam\'s stunning music.\n\n<em>\"Queens-based chamber pop artist Liam Singer delivers another deliriously beautiful adventure in song composition, filled with angelic choirs, tripping xylophone, thudding double bass and solemn notes of cello. This tune, for fans of Patrick Watson, Sufjan Stevens and Patrick Wolf is taken from Singer’s forthcoming sophomore album, Arc Iris.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.beat.com.au/music/liam-singer-stranger-i-know\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beat Magazine</strong></a>\n\nGrab your free download of the track from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> now.','New Liam Singer Single Scoops Glowing Review at Beat','','draft','closed','open','','new-liam-singer-single-scoops-glowing-review-at-beat','','','2014-08-01 02:34:07','2014-08-01 02:34:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6432',0,'post','',0),(6434,1,'2013-03-18 10:13:35','2013-03-18 10:13:35','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/markuson_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Markus Mehr\'s brilliant 2012 release <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\"><em>On</em></a> is still making waves. The album is number 7 on the <a href=\"http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?action=viewChart&amp;subaction=weekly&amp;year=2013&amp;month=03&amp;day=17\" target=\"_blank\">KZSU Main chart</a> and number 1 on their experimental chart. That not only says a lot for what is an amazing album, but also a lot about what a truly fantastic station <a href=\"http://kzsu.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">KZSU</a> is. True supporters of music at its broadest definitions.\n\nCheck out all Markus Mehr releases including <em>On </em>and his latest, <em>Off</em>, at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-only-for-a-while[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Markus Mehr - \'Only For a While\'</strong>','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;On&quot; Hits KZSU&#039;s Top 10!','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehrs-on-hits-kzsus-top-10','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6434',0,'post','',0),(6448,1,'2013-03-25 14:20:49','2013-03-25 14:20:49','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=225\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"No Compass\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/No_Compass_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Scott Solter\'s brazen experimentalism is only equaled by his innate sense of musicality. Marry this to the genius of <a href=\"http://www.erikfriedlander.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Friedlande</a>r and we have <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=225\"><em>No Compass: Solter Resets Friedland</em>er</a> an EP of five tracks from Erik Friedlander’s 2008 <em>Broken Arm Trio</em> CD completely reinvented by Solter. In his hands the acoustic cello, bass and drums trio tracks have become vertigo-inducing panoramas -- kaleidoscopic recompositions. 5 striking examples of Solter’s fearless studio craft.\n\nThe release is available now as a limited edition 10\" vinyl as well as CD and digital formats. Check out availability in the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=225\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and while you\'re there, don\'t forget to check out Solter\'s stunning solo release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=182\"><em>One River</em></a>.','Scott Solter Resets Erik Friedlander','','publish','closed','open','','scott-solter-resets-erik-friedlander','','','2013-03-25 14:20:49','2013-03-25 14:20:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6448',0,'post','',0),(6457,1,'2013-04-02 02:02:02','2013-04-02 02:02:02','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/blueceiling_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"Jumpel - \'Blue Ceiling\'\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" align=\"left\" />‘Blue Ceiling’ is the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=226\" target=\"_self\">new single</a>, with accompanying <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/63084543\" target=\"_self\">music video</a>, by German minimal ambient-electronica maestro Jumpel, taken from his forthcoming fourth album <em>Bloc4 </em>(June 4 2013). On ‘Blue Ceiling’, Joe Dürbeck continues his breathtaking collaboration with <a href=\"http://www.chloemarch.co.uk/\" target=\"_self\">Chloë March</a>(who contributed vocals to the 2010 single, ‘Edinburgh’). ‘Blue Ceiling’ has an utterly heartbreaking drift, its pellucid atmosphere like winter sunlight refracting through raindrops on a window pane.\n\nDownload \'Blue Ceiling\' for free from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=226\" target=\"_self\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>, stream it on <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/jumpel-blue-ceiling\" target=\"_self\">SoundCloud</a> and watch the beautiful music video for the track on <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9tj8RrRias\" target=\"_self\">Youtube</a> or <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/63084543\" target=\"_self\">Vimeo</a>.\n\n<em>”J</em><em>o Durbeck’s music is welcoming and gentle, even as it challenges. Deuxieme Bureau explores the positive sounds that are always there, even in the silence, even in sadness”</em> – <strong>Foxy Digitalis</strong>\n\nJumpel’s forthcoming album <em>Bloc4</em> (June 4 2013) centres around the elevated yet lonely world of a tower block, each track poetically investigating its multi-faceted elements and spaces. The songs were written throughout 2012, with ideas collated, reviewed, developed and remixed. Following the wonderful results of his collaboration with Chloë March on <em>Europa</em> single ‘Edinburgh’, Joe Dürbeck presented the ideas for <em>Bloc4</em> to March and invited her to select tracks and develop vocal ideas. The results are stunning – and offer a perfect counterbalance to the more melancholic, spacious instrumental pieces.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/63084543\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"></iframe>\n\n<a href=\"http://vimeo.com/63084543\">Jumpel - \'Blue Ceiling\'</a> from <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/hiddenshoal\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> on <a href=\"http://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.','Stunning New Single &amp; Music Video from Jumpel (feat. Chloe March)','','publish','closed','open','','stunning-new-single-and-music-video-from-jumpel-feat-chloe-march','','','2013-04-02 02:02:02','2013-04-02 02:02:02','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6457',0,'post','',0),(6470,1,'2013-04-09 06:01:27','2013-04-09 06:01:27','\"In July of last year, I reviewed Markus Mehr’s On album here at DOA, the second part of the trilogy of albums that Off is the final section of. On is a tremendously varied and imaginative sequence of tracks, varying from ambient soundscapes to haphazardly conceived audio collages, and it’s continuous invention gives the album an accessibility that could find Mehr an audience outwith the Electronica scene. Perhaps he has deliberately gone out of his way to reassert his credentials as an electronic composer with Off, which is a very different album to its predecessor. Consisting of one track 42 minutes in length, Off places less emphasis on jump cut sampling and leaps of technology, instead it’s to all intents and purposes an actual symphony, a seamlessly performed series of drone and keyboard motifs interspersed with intricately timed percussion.\n\nIn other hands a 42 minute extended synth improvisation might prove over indulgent or even unlistenable, but Mehr’s timing and his compositional skills prevent the piece from sliding out of its focus. When the percussive breaks appear amidst the drone waves and piano motifs, they’re placed not to boost the sequenced sound to club trance levels, although Mehr could and probably does produce music that’s more designed for crowd pleasing : instead, the percussion signifies tonal changes of emphasis as Off develops its fractalised structure and while it remains based around a repetitive synth riff, Mehr draws as much as he is able from his sequential templates and added effects are used sparingly.\n\nThis structured, verging upon minimal approach to what is a lengthy piece of experimentation is exactly what makes Off work. Mehr is too experienced a musician to take significant risks with his material, but Off is unquestionably a work which makes demands upon its listeners. That it doesn’t seem overlong is a measure of Mehr’s own skills and as album length ambient electronic epics go, it is again an accessibly scored work, avoiding too much in the way of atonality and retaining a melodic core throughout. Aside from that, it’s an album you might need to put some time aside to appreciate fully. Off may qualify as ambient but it’s definitely something more than just elevator muzak.\"\n\n<strong>- </strong><a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2013/03/markus-mehr-off/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DOA</strong></a>','Markus Mehr &quot;Off&quot; Reviewed at DOA','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-off-reviewed-at-doa','','','2013-04-09 06:01:27','2013-04-09 06:01:27','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6470',0,'post','',0),(6472,1,'2013-04-09 06:03:01','2013-04-09 06:03:01','\"For this listener, Markus Mehr\'s <em>Off </em> is unquestionably the most satisfying part of the trilogy that began with <em>In </em> and <em>On</em>. Using computer, synthesizers, processed guitars, piano, and distortion pedals, the German experimental ambient artist has constructed a single-track, forty-two-minute epic that opens in a manner characteristic of the genre but subsequently distinguishes itself as something far more than a standard ambient work.\n\nThe opening minutes find <em>Off </em> in ambient-drone mode with a hazy loop cycling endlessly until a piano enters six minutes into the piece, at first tentatively as if challenging the ambient elements for the spotlight but then more assertively. The electronic and acoustic elements establish a truce of sorts as one alternates with the other and Mehr wraps the piano in a thick blanket of symphonic synth and field recordings textures. A hint of classical elegance attends the piano playing, which is generally ponderous in mood, but the listener\'s attention abruptly shifts when a transporting synthetic swoon emerges at the twelve-minute mark. Though the moment occurs early in the piece, it\'s captivating nonetheless, especially when it imbues the piece with such a dream-like aura. The piano re-surfaces, its melancholic character a natural complement to the slow-motion context within which it\'s embedded. Time feels suspended as the mass, which fizzles and sparkles with a kind of clandestine grandeur, rises and falls, its tension released by Mehr ever so deliciously.\n\nHalfway through, an undulating vocal choir emerges, before the piano takes center stage, the other elements receding so much that the creak of the piano bench becomes audible. The moment passes quickly, however, and a new episode, one heavy on field recordings of vocal choirs, moves to the forefront. An industrial quality begins to characterize the recording, with low-pitched noises fizzing at a dull roar alongside the vocals until the swooning synth figures resurface to point the recording home, albeit at a slow tempo that grows steadily slower as the end nears. That Mehr is able to sustain the music\'s effect so expertly over so many minutes is a testament to his sound-sculpting abilities and sense of control. The literal culmination of his trilogy project, <em>Off </em> offers to the listener a wholly immersive experience that he/she will likely want to re-experience many times over.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/mehr_off.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Textura</strong></a>','Markus Mehr &quot;Off&quot; Reviewed at Textura','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-off-reviewed-at-textura','','','2013-04-09 06:03:01','2013-04-09 06:03:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6472',0,'post','',0),(6474,1,'2013-04-09 06:04:55','2013-04-09 06:04:55','\"I\'m not exactly sure why but for whatever reason I mistakenly had Apricot Rail pegged as a hard-hitting guitar-driven outfit. That impression was quickly set right when I put on the Perth-based sextet\'s sophomore outing <em>Quarrels </em> and was presented with the opening song “Basket Press,” a luscious instrumental that does feature guitars but does so primarily for the purposes of crafting a soothing mood. Yes, a heavier guitar-fueled attack does eventually surface, but not before Mayuka Juber\'s flute appears to establish even more clearly the band\'s multi-coloured identity. Apricot Rail helps distinguish its sound from the competition by prominently featuring woodwinds in its arrangements (bassist Daniel Burt also plays saxophone and Juber contributes clarinet as well as flute to the recording). As much pop group as post-rock outfit, the group also includes drummer Matt Saville and guitarists Ambrose Nock, Justin Manzano, and Jack Quirk, all of whom enrich the songs with bold splashes of colour (vocals, melodica, trumpet, electronics, and glockenspiel).\n\nLargely recorded over a four-day spell during January 2012 in an isolated farmhouse in Western Australia, <em>Quarrels </em> offers a bounty of splendid songcraft and arrangements. The second piece, “Another Roof, Another Proof,” captures the band\'s softer side and lightness of touch in beautiful manner, and again demonstrates the rich range of instrumental colour the sextet is capable of bringing to an arrangement. “Cicadas...Part Two” likewise spotlights the band\'s softer side when a lovely waltz episode appears at the song\'s center.\n\nFolk melodies etched by electric guitar and voice (“Come to Glasgow, my darling / And we\'re never coming home again”) lend “Running with an Egg on a Spoon” an appealingly rustic and nostalgic feel, and while I\'ve not been to “Surry Hills,” based on the luscious setting evoked by the band, it\'s definitely a place I\'d welcome visiting, especially when wide open skies and soul-replenishing natural air are conjured so vividly by it. A brief foray into guitar raucousness notwithstanding (“The Sunlight Experiments”), <em>Quarrels </em> impresses as a twelve-song collection that makes a more-than-strong case for Apricot Rail\'s particular blend of instrumental pop and post-rock.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/apricotrail_quarrels.htm\"><strong>Apricot Rail</strong></a>','Apricot Rail &quot;Quarrels&quot; Reviewed at Textura','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-quarrels-reviewed-at-textura','','','2013-04-09 06:04:55','2013-04-09 06:04:55','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6474',0,'post','',0),(6478,1,'2013-04-09 06:06:50','2013-04-09 06:06:50','\"Essentially the brainchild of Brooklyn based Rich Bennett whose 2010 mini-album on Hidden Shoal Recordings counts as one of that year\'s most understated. <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/monocle-chances-glide\">Monocle</a>\'s debut long player <em>Outer Sunset</em> is a transcendental exercise in ambient dream pop where melody rules supreme. Lead single \'Chances Glide\' features a vocal contribution from <strong>Dead Leaf Echo</strong>\'s Ana Breton and is frankly, sublime.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4146224\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Drowned in Sound</strong></a>','Monocle &#039;Chances Glide&#039; Reviewed at Drowned in Sound','','draft','closed','open','','monocle-chances-glide-reviewed-at-drowned-in-sound','','','2014-08-01 02:21:38','2014-08-01 02:21:38','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6478',0,'post','',0),(6481,1,'2013-04-09 07:32:08','2013-04-09 07:32:08','\"At the start of post-rock, Simon Reynolds coined the term to highlight the technical innovativeness of a particular set of bands and it worked. Music history doesn’t highlight this, but Slint’s <em>Spiderland</em> and Nirvana’s <em>Nevermind</em> were both released in 1991. One would become the mainstream archetype for rock music for the next five years, the other a touchstone for the underground response to alt-rock’s popularity. It sounds arcane and ridiculous, but there was a real sense of moving past rock there for a few years; with Nirvana and Melvins and Sonic Youth and Mudhoney and Helmet all on major labels, all in the popular mainstream, what more could there be left to build? For a brief moment, rock seemed like finished business. And then the whole thing collapsed and rock has pretty much been out of vogue ever since, which is where it belongs.\n\nThe curious postscript to all this is that ‘post-rock’ stuck around and became a genre of sorts: mostly or entirely instrumental music, played by a rock ensemble, lots of effects, often with some sort of classical instrumentation: a violin, a cello or, in Apricot Rail’s case, a flute and clarinet. It may not be popular or critically admired or cool, but it has its audience and a network. There are post-rock bands in every Australian city and, like folk music, they all sound a little alike. I find it fascinating because folk art usually exists to maintain a verbal/lyrical conversation, but what do these bands have to say to each other and the people who like them?\n\nAll this is a bit much to dump on Apricot Rail’s shoulders. The Perth six-piece lay out an extremely concise and textured second album with <em>Quarrels</em>, and for the most part it manages to evade many of my least favourite parts of post-rock. There are plenty of chiming harmonics and clean, delayed guitars, gently shifting arpeggios and a glockenspiel lead, but the band also sneak in a few surprises: the droned outro of ‘Cicadas Part Two’; the super intricate structure, almost sampled feel of ‘Third Balloon’; the weird electronics of ‘Eked’; and a dedication to shorter songs. The album was mixed by Scott Solter (Superchunk, The Mountain Goats) with a view to maximum headphone euphoria and the stereo spectrum is given a thorough workout, the band cutting in and out, left to right and back and forth. It comes off as beautiful and exacting, if a little cold. So exactly right then.\n\n<a href=\"http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/apricot-rail-basket-press\">Apricot Rail - \'Basket Press\'</a> by <a href=\"http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a>\n\nDialling into <em>Quarrels</em> makes a lot of sense, especially if I look out the window at sunny suburbia. Apricot Rail share none of Mogwai’s metal or Euro-club/pub tendencies, nor much of Explosions in the Sky’s American bombast, and very few post-rock bands in recent years have tried on the literary expanses of <em>Spiderland</em>. Instead, this band inhabits a world similar to how I see Perth in my mind’s eye: a very pretty and bright city by the ocean, the sort of place anyone would desperately want to live if they hadn’t grown up there (and if mining money hadn’t made dinner for two an upper-middle-class expense).\n\nIt’s a tight fit between sound and place. I think bands like Apricot Rail are about approximating the pastoral splendour and the clean suburban streets of Australia, something that might be problematic if it weren’t so niche, and in any case it’s something many of us live within every day. In a rock culture obsessed with painting Australia as a swamp or southern-gothic wasteland or a retched sprawl of rundown sharehouses, how can a small measure of prettiness be such a crime?\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.messandnoise.com/releases/2001182\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mess + Noise</strong></a>','Apricot Rail &quot;Quarrels&quot; Reviewed at Mess + Noise','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-quarrels-reviewed-at-mess-noise','','','2013-04-09 07:32:08','2013-04-09 07:32:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6481',0,'post','',0),(6483,1,'2013-04-09 07:33:32','2013-04-09 07:33:32','\"A damn sight cleverer than its diffident twee pop presentation would suggest, “Stranger I know” makes for a fine introduction to the introspective melancholia of Liam Singer.  The song has the simplest of sequenced melodies and yet Mr Singer manages to layer on enough heart and soul to make an admirably intelligent sonic confection.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.bluesbunny.com/tabid/325/xmmid/1030/xmid/5253/xmview/2/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BluesBunny</strong></a>','Liam Singer &#039;Stranger I Know&#039; Reviewed at BluesBunny','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-stranger-i-know-reviewed-at-bluesbunny','','','2013-04-09 07:33:32','2013-04-09 07:33:32','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6483',0,'post','',0),(6485,1,'2013-04-09 07:36:12','2013-04-09 07:36:12','\"What a wonderful mind for composition Liam Singer has. Four albums into his career, he’s coming up with ever-more-detailed songs which only fit the pop label due to their presentation and singability. In all other respects, he’s a classical songwriter, building a song from cellar to roof, all parts in parallel: a detailed patterner with each idea serving the larger one.\n\nA very small number of songwriters take the trouble to think like this. Brian Wilson and Prince, obviously. Jeff Lynne, Sufjan Stephens and Stephen Merritt, perhaps. <a title=\"REVIEW – Various Artists: ‘Leader Of The Starry Skies – A Tribute To Tim Smith – Songbook 1’ album, 2010 (“an unmapped musical crossroads… one of the most diverse tribute albums imaginable”)\" href=\"http://misfitcity.org/2012/09/12/review-various-artists-leader-of-the-starry-skies-a-tribute-to-tim-smith-songbook-1-album-2010-one-of-the-most-diverse-tribute-albums-imaginable/\">Tim Smith</a>, definitely – the interplay of vocal parts on Stranger I Know particularly recalls Smith’s pastoral work with <a title=\"CONCERT REVIEW – The Sea Nymphs @ The Falcon, Camden Town, London, 13th December 1998 (“a long curving wave of sea-songs, swimming keyboards, children’s play-rhymes”)\" href=\"http://misfitcity.org/2013/01/10/concert-review-the-sea-nymphs-the-falcon-camden-town-london-13th-december-1998-a-long-curving-wave-of-sea-songs-swimming-keyboards-childrens-play-rhymes/\">Sea Nymphs</a> or the more delicate moments on Cardiacs records as worked out with William D. Drake (another comparison that can be thrown into the circle). At work in his current hideaway in Queens, Liam Singer belongs to this world of the total song-composers: the ones for whom genre barriers are predominantly bubbles of resistance, and for whom form and content are inseparable.\n\nStranger I Know sounds like many things. Its links to American minimalism are clear in its collection of elegant cycles (from oompah bass to arching cello; shakers and flute; a mathematical glockenspiel climb) as they move against each other, interplaying in uplifting counter-rhythms. Beyond that, Liam’s omnivorous musical diet is made clear in the breadth of arrangement and intonation, stretching from romantic piano to staccato gamelan pot-clunk. Each instrument comes sheathed in its own immediate mood and pace, hanging onto its place in the dance by a skilful fingertip: just enough to snag a little tension and independence; just enough to flirt.\n\nShadowed and overflown (as ever) by the spectral caroling of soprano voices, Liam sings in a tone of wonder – and of determination. It’s all a little archaic: a spiritual love ballad with swaying time, an elusive subject and a courtly seriousness which ultimately fails to mask its fervour. <em>“Stranger I know / thy face / from a dream. / All night I’ve <strong>yearned</strong> to hear that song. / – Once, it sang me.” </em>There are hints of transformation and liberation here – <em>“What was / before me / is now / behind me. / Strings fall / off of / a body,” </em> – but devotion and freedom end up so closely wound together that there’s nothing between them. Liam finally stands set loose on the verge of… something. It’s unclear, it’s unsure, it could even be an end; but it’s welcomed, and while Liam’s left some things behind, he’s not alone. <em>“Saw God’s / features – they / can keep ‘em all. / There is no / voice to follow / now. / And as the / noise / takes over, you / just hold your / breath, I’ll hold / mine too.”</em>\n\nStranger I Know is also a little exercise in time-travel, working a gentle auger down through several generations of American tune and peeping through the hole. Liam’s previous songs have been beautifully arranged, evoking a classical ambience. This one – balancing a subtle, minimal complexity with fleeting kisses at its reference points – ups the game. In its shifting and its overlaying, you can hear migration at work. A little dose of romantic Europe dapples a line of American mountains: the breathless chorus (its rhythm offset from the dreamy verse) steps in like an old-country village dance setting up against the pistons and presses of a little factory in the hills. Behind the tinkling delicacy, that bass drum which comes in for the bridge hint at a barn-dance stomp: Shaker Loops to hometown hoedown.\n\nAll of this activity is encapsulated within less than three minutes. In, out, open. A little wonder.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://misfitcity.org/2013/03/26/review-liam-singer-stranger-i-know-single-2013-sings-in-a-tone-of-wonder-and-of-determination/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Misfit City</strong></a>','Liam Singer &#039;Stranger I Know&#039; Reviewed at Misfit City','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-stranger-i-know-reviewed-at-misfit-city','','','2013-04-09 07:36:12','2013-04-09 07:36:12','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6485',0,'post','',0),(6488,1,'2013-04-09 08:03:37','2013-04-09 08:03:37','\"The internet is a wonderful thing. I had no idea that western Australia had a rich experimental music scene. With my northern European prejudice I probably assumed that all too brief and rather damp summers were a necessary precondition for musical innovation. But thanks to the web, my prejudices can be confounded.\n\n<strong>Gilded</strong> are <strong>Matt Rösner</strong> and <strong>Adam Trainer</strong>, both notable composers and performers in the aforementioned scene around Perth, who collaborate together on this album for the first time. <em>Terrane</em> was mostly recorded in the beach community at Myalup, although some of the piano which features strongly throughout the record was recorded in Perth in a room specifically conditioned to provide the optimum environment for the instrument.\n<div id=\"pull-this-show-4050-patient\">patient progressions evoke images of wild and remote places</div>\nWhen thinking of great experimental music (if you were a child of the Seventies and Eighties at least) I immediately think of <strong>Mixmaster Morris</strong> or <strong>Aphex Twin</strong>’s electronica or <strong>Philip Glass</strong> and <strong>Steve Reich</strong>at the more orchestral end of the spectrum. Gilded’s music pitches somewhere in the middle, and manages to create soundscapes that, while they are certainly minimal in approach, are nonetheless powerfully evocative. I use the term soundscapes specifically here, as the album title (a geological term apparently*) is highly appropriate because what their music communicates is determinedly about places and environments. The restrained use of repetitions, layered with gradual, patient progressions evoke images of wild and remote places.\n\nThe rich texture of their music is partly a function of the care taken in their arrangements, as well as the performance and recording. What adds so much to these compositions is the incredible resonance that they elicit from their acoustic instruments. While piano and guitar feature significantly, the instrumentation is also diverse enough to provide a highly original sound palette. Creating these combinations must have taken immense care and great deal of experimentation, and the overall effect works so well as to produce music that invites a deeply immersive experience.\n<div id=\"pull-this-show-4050-movement\">movement is not required and its simplicity is part of its appeal</div>\nThe eclectic instrumentation is augmented by the use of field recordings. These serve to further strengthen the extent to which the pieces transport you to distant landscapes. Their application is subtle, for example adding a sense of heat shimmer to the scenes that Trainer and Rösner paint with their instruments.\n\nAs the tracks build, you may find yourself yearning for more progression in the compositions. The music moves you – but perhaps you want it to move further. However, this is the point of <em>Terrane</em>; it is music which describes places and panoramas – movement is not required and its simplicity is part of its appeal. Fundamentally, what makes this record stand out is the beauty that is achieved through its diverse arrangements. This gives it a richness which encourages listeners to explore the layers and textures, which pleases both aesthetically and through its invention. This music is original and well made, the like of which I have not heard before. - Jim Bennett\"\n\n-<a href=\"http://freq.org.uk/reviews/gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FREQ</strong></a>','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; Reviewed at FREQ','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-reviewed-at-freq','','','2013-04-09 08:03:37','2013-04-09 08:03:37','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6488',0,'post','',0),(6490,1,'2013-04-09 08:55:56','2013-04-09 08:55:56','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Liam Singer\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/liam-singer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"147\" />Liam Singer</a>\'s stunning new single \'<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\" target=\"_blank\">Stranger I Know</a>\' continues to receive glowing reviews. Any why wouldn\'t it? The man is a bona-fide musical genius in this authors book. Check out <a href=\"http://misfitcity.org/2013/03/26/review-liam-singer-stranger-i-know-single-2013-sings-in-a-tone-of-wonder-and-of-determination/\" target=\"_blank\">this</a> beautifully written review at Misfit City, <a href=\"http://www.bluesbunny.com/tabid/325/xmmid/1030/xmid/5253/xmview/2/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this</a> sweet little love note over at BluesBunny and if you missed our last missive, this delicious slice of writing over at <a href=\"http://www.fingertipsmusic.com/?p=14204\" target=\"_blank\">Fingertips Music</a>.\n\n\'Stranger I Know\' is the first track lifted from Liam Singer\'s forthcoming album <em>Arc Iris</em>, out July 11th 2013. The track is currently available for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\" target=\"_blank\">free download</a> from the Hidden Shoal Store. Singer\'s previous album <em>Dislocatia</em> is also available through <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know[/soundcloud]','New Liam Singer Reviews','','draft','closed','open','','new-liam-singer-reviews','','','2014-08-01 02:34:07','2014-08-01 02:34:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6490',0,'post','',0),(6496,1,'2013-04-09 09:12:32','2013-04-09 09:12:32','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Markus_Mehr/lazy-k-slides/Markus_Mehr_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"267\" />Markus Mehr</a>\'s <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\">Off</a> </em>may be his most accomplished to date. And if you sense any hesitation it is only because of the bewildering talent and depth he displays across all 4 of his releases. If we take a different tact then we could say that <em>Off</em> is a beautiful and haunting distillation of all that went before it. All the grandeur, all the subtleties, all the melodic immersion and all carefully constructed and conducted noise. <em>Off</em> is 42 minutes of uninterrupted (literally) sonic and melodic immersion and engagement. It gives as much as it asks of its listeners and then some. And we\'re not the only ones that have such thoughts! Check out <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/mehr_off.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this fantastic review</a> of Off over at the always excellent Textura and then step over to DOA for <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2013/03/markus-mehr-off/\" target=\"_blank\">this excellent review</a> by the equally excellent Jon Gordon.\n\n<em>Off</em> is available now in digital formats and as a limited edition custom package CD through the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. CD stock is limited so if you are interested the sooner option is better than the later option.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-off-excerpt[/soundcloud]','Markus Mehr Reverie &amp; New Reviews','','publish','closed','open','','new-markus-mehr-reverie-reviews','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6496',0,'post','',0),(6514,1,'2013-04-24 02:27:23','2013-04-24 02:27:23','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/Quarrels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Apricot Rail\'s utterly beautiful sophomore album <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\"><em>Quarrels</em></a> has been starting to stir up some US radio love of late, recently featuring in a number of college radio Top 30\'s. The album\'s most recent chart entry at <a href=\"http://www.radio1190.org/charts2/\" target=\"_blank\">Radio 1190</a> in Denver saw it hold the number 4 spot! Yet  another example of independent radio understanding music outside of the obvious and constrained.\n\nIf you\'ve not yet given your ears and mind the treasures that <em>Quarrels</em> holds then here\'s a path to happiness for you - <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/basket-press-single\">download the free single</a> \'Basket Press\', stream the album trailer below, then <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\">grab the album</a> for yourself on CD or digital (FLAC + MP3).\n\n<iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Km0wU8UQBoo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\"></iframe>','Apricot Rail Charts at Number 4 on the Radio 1190 Top 30!','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-charts-at-number-4-on-the-radio-1190-top-30','','','2016-02-03 13:43:07','2016-02-03 05:43:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6514',0,'post','',0),(6517,1,'2013-04-24 15:41:20','2013-04-24 15:41:20','Check out <a href=\"http://www.fingertipsmusic.com/?p=14393\" target=\"_blank\">this fabulous Q&amp;A</a> with Liam Singer over at the excellent <a href=\"http://www.fingertipsmusic.com/?p=14393\" target=\"_blank\">Fingertips</a>. Singer\'s stunning new full length <em>Arc Iris</em> lands on 11th July with the first single from the album \'<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\">Stranger I Know</a>\' available now for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\">free download</a> (and stream below).\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Liam Singer - \'Stranger I Know\'</strong>','Q&amp;A with Liam Singer at Fingertips','','draft','closed','open','','qa-with-liam-singer-at-fingertips','','','2014-08-01 02:34:06','2014-08-01 02:34:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6517',0,'post','',0),(10146,1,'2014-08-01 02:34:07','2014-08-01 02:34:07','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Liam Singer\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/liam-singer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"147\" />Liam Singer</a>\'s stunning new single \'<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\" target=\"_blank\">Stranger I Know</a>\' continues to receive glowing reviews. Any why wouldn\'t it? The man is a bona-fide musical genius in this authors book. Check out <a href=\"http://misfitcity.org/2013/03/26/review-liam-singer-stranger-i-know-single-2013-sings-in-a-tone-of-wonder-and-of-determination/\" target=\"_blank\">this</a> beautifully written review at Misfit City, <a href=\"http://www.bluesbunny.com/tabid/325/xmmid/1030/xmid/5253/xmview/2/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this</a> sweet little love note over at BluesBunny and if you missed our last missive, this delicious slice of writing over at <a href=\"http://www.fingertipsmusic.com/?p=14204\" target=\"_blank\">Fingertips Music</a>.\n\n\'Stranger I Know\' is the first track lifted from Liam Singer\'s forthcoming album <em>Arc Iris</em>, out July 11th 2013. The track is currently available for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\" target=\"_blank\">free download</a> from the Hidden Shoal Store. Singer\'s previous album <em>Dislocatia</em> is also available through <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know[/soundcloud]','New Liam Singer Reviews','','inherit','closed','closed','','6490-revision-v1','','','2014-08-01 02:34:07','2014-08-01 02:34:07','',6490,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/6490-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(10147,1,'2014-08-01 02:34:07','2014-08-01 02:34:07','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Liam Singer\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/liam-singer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"147\" />Liam Singer\'s brand new single \'Stranger I Know\' continues to turn ears. This time it\'s scooped a beautiful little review from Melbourne\'s Beat Magazine who once again pour love over Liam\'s stunning music.\n\n<em>\"Queens-based chamber pop artist Liam Singer delivers another deliriously beautiful adventure in song composition, filled with angelic choirs, tripping xylophone, thudding double bass and solemn notes of cello. This tune, for fans of Patrick Watson, Sufjan Stevens and Patrick Wolf is taken from Singer’s forthcoming sophomore album, Arc Iris.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.beat.com.au/music/liam-singer-stranger-i-know\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beat Magazine</strong></a>\n\nGrab your free download of the track from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> now.','New Liam Singer Single Scoops Glowing Review at Beat','','inherit','closed','closed','','6432-revision-v1','','','2014-08-01 02:34:07','2014-08-01 02:34:07','',6432,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/6432-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6532,1,'2013-05-02 07:08:26','2013-05-02 07:08:26','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/irazor_LRG.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6533\" title=\"I Razor\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/irazor_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" /></a>Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of <a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\"><em>I Razor</em></a>, the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a>. The album 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.\n\n<em>“Wistful, pretty, and melancholy, Pollard lets loose a truly affecting melody with a wonderfully natural delivery. It’s been said over and over again that he makes it look easy -- and even after years and years of songwriting, tracks like ‘You First’ indicate that he’s far from reaching a brick wall.”</em> – <strong>Pitchfork on Circus Devils <em>Ringworm Interiors</em></strong>\n\n<em>“Call an album Medicine Show and some music buffs might expect something very different to this 16 track exercise in edgy atmospherics and controlled noise, but 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 on Todd Tobias <em>Medicine Show</em></strong>\n\nThe album is available for for <a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">CD pre-order through Hidden Shoal</a>. The CD version of the album comes as a limited edition custom package and includes an immediate digital download of the album in FLAC or MP3 format. The <em>I Razor</em> film is also available for order on DVD (including a DVD+CD deal). Head to the <a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all the details.\n\nCheck out the album and film trailer below to get a taste of the wondrous and challenging sonic and visual feast that is <em>I Razor</em>.\n\n<iframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/65218574\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"></iframe>\n\n<a href=\"http://vimeo.com/65218574\">I Razor - Album &amp; Movie Teaser</a> from <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/hiddenshoal\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> on <a href=\"http://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.\n\n&nbsp;','&quot;I Razor&quot; Soundtrack - Todd Tobias, Robert Pollard, Circus Devils - CD Pre-Orders!','','publish','closed','open','','i-razor-soundtrack-todd-tobias-robert-pollard-circus-devils-cd-pre-orders','','','2016-02-03 16:39:53','2016-02-03 08:39:53','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6532',0,'post','',0),(6548,1,'2013-05-09 02:53:48','2013-05-09 02:53:48','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Tangled Star - \'Head In The Sand\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/headinthesand_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=15&amp;products_id=229\">Head In The Sand</a>’ by Craig Hallsworth-led  West Australian outfit <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/tangled-star/\">Tangled Star</a>. The track is the first single to be taken from their forthcoming album <em>Let’s Adjourn To The Garden </em>(18th June 2013). The track is available now for free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=15&amp;products_id=229\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n‘Head In The Sand’ streamlines Tangled Star’s inimitable hooks and melodic turns into an immediately addictive and electric slice of slow burn power-pop. The glowing roar of overdriven guitars combined with the song’s endearingly ramshackle sway evokes wide-open roads and cracked sunglasses, with potholes and detours along the way. Craig Hallsworth’s unmistakable vocals and lyrical playfulness, and the incongruous but strangely heartbreaking piano outro, make for classic Tangled Star.\n\n<em>“The rich, gentle roil of sound evidenced on Our Man in Eden Hill, the band’s third overall release, has the same surging, warmly anthemic sound of stellar forebears galore, each sonically different — the Triffids, Died Pretty, perhaps most inevitably the Go-Betweens — but which altogether seem to capture a sense and a style more than might be guessed, something detailed, mournful, and a little crushing even at its strongest...”</em> - <strong>All Music Guide on </strong><em><strong>Our Man In Eden Hill</strong></em>\n\nDistilling elements of indie-rock with Craig Hallsworth’s wonderful dust-and-liquor-coated vocals and twisting lyrics, Tangled Star weave their own magic place. Through the music’s exultant shifts and wandering detours the band manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset. Their wonderfully titled new collection <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. For the uninitiated, Hallsworth has been a mainstay of the Perth indie scene, fronting seminal Australian 80s swamp rockers The Bamboos and going on to front bands such as The Healers, Outstation, The Slow Beings and now Tangled Star.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/tangled-star-head-in-the-sand[/soundcloud]','Slow Burn Power Pop from Western Australia&#039;s Tangled Star - Free Download!','','publish','closed','open','','slow-burn-power-pop-from-western-australias-tangled-star-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:14:34','2016-02-03 08:14:34','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6548',0,'post','',0),(6562,1,'2013-05-16 04:10:52','2013-05-16 04:10:52','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/irazor_LRG.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6533\" title=\"I Razor\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/irazor_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" /></a>Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the official release and digital availability of <a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\"><em>I Razor</em></a>, the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a>. The album 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.\n\n<em>“Wistful, pretty, and melancholy, Pollard lets loose a truly affecting melody with a wonderfully natural delivery. It’s been said over and over again that he makes it look easy -- and even after years and years of songwriting, tracks like ‘You First’ indicate that he’s far from reaching a brick wall.”</em> – <strong>Pitchfork on Circus Devils <em>Ringworm Interiors</em></strong>\n\nThe album is available now in digital formats (Mp3 and FLAC) and on CD <a>through Hidden Shoal</a>. The CD version of the album comes as a limited edition custom package and includes an immediate digital download of the album in FLAC or MP3 format. The <em>I Razor</em> film is also available for order on DVD (including a DVD+CD deal). Head to the <a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all the details.\n\nCheck out the album and film trailer below to get a taste of the wondrous and challenging sonic and visual feast that is <em>I Razor</em>.\n\n<iframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/65218574\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"></iframe>\n\n<a href=\"http://vimeo.com/65218574\">I Razor - Album &amp; Movie Teaser</a> from <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/hiddenshoal\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> on <a href=\"http://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.\n\n&nbsp;','&quot;I Razor&quot; Official Release and Digital Availability!','','publish','closed','open','','i-razor-official-release-and-digital-availability','','','2016-02-03 16:39:53','2016-02-03 08:39:53','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6562',0,'post','',0),(6564,1,'2013-05-16 07:40:19','2013-05-16 07:40:19','<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-6571 alignright\" title=\"30 Days in May\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/30DaysinMay-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" />Besides releasing beautiful music, the little elves behind the scenes here at Hidden Shoal are busily working to get label tracks placed in film and tv. Our latest coup sees 9 tracks from the Hidden Shoal catalogue appear on the soundtrack to the US doco <a href=\"http://sports.sho.com/documentaries/30-days-in-may/2013\" target=\"_blank\"><em>30 Days in May</em></a>. The film chronicles the days surrounding world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather’s 2012 incarceration with tracks from Hidden Shoal artists <a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">Antonymes</a>, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/gilded/\">Gilded</a>, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Slow Dancing Society</a> and <a href=\"http://weswillenbring.com/\">Wes Willenbring</a> featuring throughout<em></em>. The film has been picked up by <a href=\"http://sports.sho.com/documentaries/30-days-in-may/2013\" target=\"_blank\">Showtime</a> in the US and a number of European networks as well.\n\nCheck out <a href=\"http://sports.sho.com/videos/1374\" target=\"_blank\">a clip from <em>30 Days in May</em></a> featuring the Wes Willenbring track \'Lost Illusions\'.','Hidden Shoal Artists Featuring in &quot;30 Days in May&quot; Showtime Doco','','publish','closed','open','','hidden-shoal-artists-featuring-in-30-days-in-may-showtime-doco','','','2016-02-03 16:48:56','2016-02-03 08:48:56','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6564',0,'post','',0),(6579,1,'2013-05-23 14:02:16','2013-05-23 14:02:16','<img class=\" alignleft\" title=\"Jumpel - \'Flight\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/flight_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />\n\n‘Flight’ by German minimal ambient-electronica maestro <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/\" target=\"_self\">Jumpel</a>, is the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=230\" target=\"_self\">second single</a> to be taken from his forthcoming fourth album <em>Bloc4 </em>(June 11 2013). In contrast to the dreamy ambient-pop elegance of first single ‘Blue Ceiling’, ‘Flight’ literally takes off from the outset with its head-nodding beats and eerie synth pads. Chloe March’s stunning vocal turn evokes the incandescent yet sinister brilliance of Curve’s Toni Halliday on the Leftfield classic ‘Original’. It’s hard to know whether to dance or hide under the covers; either way, this beautiful track will richochet around your skull from the first spin.\n\nJumpel’s forthcoming album <em>Bloc4</em> (June 11 2013) centres around the elevated yet lonely world of a tower block, each track poetically investigating its multi-faceted elements and spaces. The songs were written throughout 2012, with ideas collated, reviewed, developed and remixed. Following the wonderful results of his collaboration with Chloë March on <em>Europa</em> single ‘Edinburgh’, Joe Dürbeck presented the ideas for <em>Bloc4</em> to March and invited her to select tracks and develop vocal ideas. The results are stunning – and offer a perfect counterbalance to the more melancholic, spacious instrumental pieces.\n\nDownload \'Flight\' for free from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=230\" target=\"_self\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> or stream it on <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/jumpel-flight\" target=\"_self\">SoundCloud</a>. <em>Bloc4</em> sees release on the 11th of June 2013.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/jumpel-flight[/soundcloud]','New Single &#039;Flight&#039; from Jumpel (w/ Chloe March) - Free Download!','','publish','closed','open','','new-single-flight-from-jumpel-w-chloe-march-free-download','','','2013-05-23 14:02:16','2013-05-23 14:02:16','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6579',0,'post','',0),(6603,1,'2013-05-28 05:18:04','2013-05-28 05:18:04','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Tangled Star - \'Head in the Sand\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/headinthesand_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Two lovely new reviews for the just released <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/tangled-star/\">Tangled Star</a> single \'Head in the Sand\'. The excellent Australian music blog <a href=\"http://sonicmasala.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/tangled-up-in-stars.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sonic Masala</a> and the lovely folks at the Norwegian blog <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon205/au205b.php\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Kafe</a> recently published reviews of the single. Here\'s a taste,\n\n<em>\" It\'s dusty, dreamlike and rustic, loud in the shadows, hushed and sated in the light. Hallsworth\'s vocals provides that rich timbre that those excellent 90s bands all possessed also, leaving us with a song that sounds pleasantly nostalgic and unabashedly modern also. ..\"</em> - <a href=\"http://sonicmasala.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/tangled-up-in-stars.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sonic Masala</strong></a>\n\n<em>\"This one\'s a little gem, yet again presenting Craig Hallsworth\'s skills creating melodic pop-hooks and mild and affectionate power-pop. This is indie pop at its best. Sugar-coated, yet a bit raw. Rich-sounding and many-flavoured, with a surprising piano outtro. A true pop gem...\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon205/au205b.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Luna Kafe</strong></a>\n\n\'Head in the Sand\' is available for free download <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=15&amp;products_id=229\">here</a> and comes from the forthcoming Tangled Star album <em>Let\'s Adjourn to the Garden</em> (18 June 2013).\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/tangled-star-head-in-the-sand[/soundcloud]','Tangled Star &#039;Head in the Sand&#039; Single Reviews','','publish','closed','open','','tangled-star-head-in-the-sand-single-reviews','','','2016-02-03 16:15:01','2016-02-03 08:15:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6603',0,'post','',0),(6605,1,'2013-05-28 05:26:49','2013-05-28 05:26:49','\"It\'s been almost four years since we\'ve heard anything new echo out of the chambers of Perth\'s <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Tangled+Star\">Tangled Star</a>. Fair enough, seeing as their front man Craig Hallsworth has been busy over the years with bands like The Bamboos, The Healers and The Slow Beings. Ive never really had a handle on what Tangled Star do - the best I could come up with is through obscure comparisons, so I\'m going to avoid that today. Instead, Ill state that \'Head In The Sand\' is an elegiac traipse through a sepia-tinged 90s, where indie guitar pop in\n\nAustralia had a distinct edge (see: Pollyanna, Gaslight Radio, Smudge, Bluebottle Kiss, about 100 others). It\'s dusty, dreamlike and rustic, loud in the shadows, hushed and sated in the light. Hallsworth\'s vocals provides that rich timbre that those excellent 90s bands all possessed also, leaving us with a song that sounds pleasantly nostalgic and unabashedly modern also.\n\nPerth label <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> have always delved into the hushed, considered echelons of guitar rock (their reissue of San Francisco trio Half Film\'s two albums last year was a particularly pertinent coup), and have ensured that Tangled Star\'s new album <em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em> (out June 18) is one to monitor closely.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://sonicmasala.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/tangled-up-in-stars.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sonic Masala</strong></a>','Tangled Star - &#039;Head in the Sand&#039; Reviewed at Sonic Masala','','publish','closed','open','','tangled-star-head-in-the-sand-reviewed-at-sonic-masala','','','2013-05-28 05:26:49','2013-05-28 05:26:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6605',0,'post','',0),(6607,1,'2013-05-28 05:28:21','2013-05-28 05:28:21','\"\n\n\"Head In The Sand\" is the brand new single from Australians Tangled Star, and an excellent pick to promote the forthcoming album <em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em> (due out June 18th). This one\'s a little gem, yet again presenting Craig Hallsworth\'s skills creating melodic pop-hooks and mild and affectionate power-pop.\n\nFormer records, the mini-album <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon141/au141.php\">Our Man in Eden Hill</a> and the EP <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon157/au157c.php\">That Time</a> have proved Tangled Star to be waiters of catchy and accessible pop songs. \"Head In The Sand\" is no exception. In fact it\'s one of the better songs I\'ve heard from them, besides <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon139/au139.php\">\"tosleepingpeople\"</a>. Again they make me think of some of Flying Nun\'s kiwi poppers, and briefly a fuzzed and rockier The Go-Betweens. This is indie pop at its best. Sugar-coated, yet a bit raw. Rich-sounding and many-flavoured, with a surprising piano outtro. A true pop gem, but as the world\'s unfair, I guess the world won\'t listen.\n\nI\'ve got a new friend and it\'s name is \"Head In The Sand\".\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon205/au205b.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Luna Kafe</strong></a>','Tangled Star - &#039;Head in the Sand&#039; Reviewed at Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','tangled-star-head-in-the-sand-reviewed-at-luna-kafe','','','2013-05-28 05:28:21','2013-05-28 05:28:21','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6607',0,'post','',0),(6611,1,'2013-05-28 07:06:19','2013-05-28 07:06:19','\"\n\nLet\'s face the facts: fact #1: It\'s taken Apricot Rail four years to put out their second album. Fact #2:<i>Quarrels</i> is a gorgeous album.\n\nApricot Rail is a multi-instrumental pop sextet based in Perth, and they take us with them on a pleasant journey visiting 12 songs of comforting vibes and soothing relaxation. It\'s hard to explain or describe the beauty of <i>Quarrels</i>. You\'d better take the listening trip yourself. The opening \"Basket Press\", which is a single choice, sets the standard, along with single # 2 off this album <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon183/au183.php\">\"Surry Hills\"</a>, which I described at the time as \'...a blooming, flowering track, almost like a glass of rich, red wine.. (Australian, of course).\' Sometimes you\'ll find Twin Peakish moods, other times slightly (slightly) like Chicagoans such as Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, Jim O\'Rourke and David Grubbs (when the latter two do melodic pop, not their impro-experimentalism). Imagine Explosions In The Sky without explosives, or Mogwai without noisy cascades. Even Bedhead springs to mind, even if its only within a song, or maybe part of a fragment. My point is; even though the bands and artists listed are somewhat different in style from Apricot Rail, they\'re sort of related at a higher level; philosophically and mentally.\n\nLike I said, you\'d better check out <i>Quarrels</i> yourself. And, well, as a title \'Quarrels\' might be somewhat misleading. There are no traces of anger or heated disputes present at all. With an album like this it\'s hard, almost impossible to pick favourite tracks. Simply because they all are. That\'s a fact. Fact #3.\"\n- <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon205/au205.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Luna Kafe</strong></a>','Apricot Rail - &quot;Quarrels&quot; Reviewed at Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-quarrels-reviewed-at-luna-kafe','','','2013-05-28 07:06:19','2013-05-28 07:06:19','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6611',0,'post','',0),(6615,1,'2013-05-30 01:45:51','2013-05-30 01:45:51','Check out this beautiful music video for the new Jumpel track \'<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=230\" target=\"_blank\">Flight</a>\',  the second single taken from <em>Bloc4</em>, the new album from German minimal ambient-electronica maestro Jumpel. The video was hand crafted by the man himself, Joe Durbeck (aka Jumpel), and can be streamed at <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvTBqiHxYAk\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube</a> or <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/67061730\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a>. The track can also be downloaded for free from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=230\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> ahead of the release of <em>Bloc4</em> on 11th June.\n\nIn contrast to the dreamy ambient-pop elegance of first single \'Blue Ceiling\', \'Flight\' literally takes off from the outset with its head-nodding beats and eerie synth pads. Chloe March\'s stunning vocal turn evokes the incandescent yet sinister brilliance of Curve\'s Toni Halliday on the Leftfield classic \'Original\'. It\'s hard to know whether to dance or hide under the covers; either way, this beautiful track will richochet around your skull from the first spin.\n\n<iframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/67061730\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>\n\n<a href=\"http://vimeo.com/67061730\">Jumpel - \'Flight\'</a> from <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/hiddenshoal\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> on <a href=\"http://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.','Beautiful New Music Video for Jumpel&#039;s &#039;Flight&#039;','','publish','closed','open','','beautiful-new-music-video-for-jumpels-flight','','','2013-05-30 01:45:51','2013-05-30 01:45:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6615',0,'post','',0),(6628,1,'2013-06-06 23:39:16','2013-06-06 23:39:16','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Kramies\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" width=\"155\" height=\"155\" />We are very excited to announce the upcoming EP <em>The Wooden Heart</em> by dream pop craftsman Kramies. <em>The Wooden Heart</em> features a collaboration with and co-production from the wonderful Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) along with the magic touch of Todd Tobias (Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard), also taking on co-production duties. We\'ve heard the pre-masters and we can safely say that this EP is going to be an absolute gem. <em>The Wooden Heart</em> <em></em>sees the light of day on the 17th October with the first single dropping early September. In the meanwhile, be sure to check out Kramies fantastic 2011 EP <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=188\"><em>The European</em></a>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/kramies-coal-miners-executive[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Kramies - \'Coal Miners Executive Club\'</strong>','Upcoming Kramies EP Featuring Jason Lytle of Grandaddy','','publish','closed','open','','upcoming-kramies-ep-featuring-jason-lytle-of-grandaddy','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6628',0,'post','',0),(6638,1,'2013-06-11 01:04:47','2013-06-11 01:04:47','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Jumpel - Bloc4\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Bloc4_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of <a href=\"http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2\"><em>Bloc4</em></a>, the new album by German minimal ambient-electronica maestro Jumpel. <em>Bloc4</em> is available now in limited edition CD and digital formats from the <a href=\"http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. Singles ‘Blue Ceiling’ and ‘Flight’ are also available for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/\">free download</a> from the Hidden Shoal Store.\n\n<em>Bloc4</em> centres around the elevated yet lonely world of a tower block, each track poetically investigating its multi-faceted elements and spaces. The songs were written throughout 2012, with ideas collated, reviewed, developed and remixed. Following the wonderful results of his collaboration with <a href=\"http://www.chloemarch.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Chloë March</a> on <em>Europa</em> single ‘Edinburgh’, Joe Dürbeck presented the ideas for <em>Bloc4</em> to March and invited her to select tracks and develop vocal ideas. The March-fronted tracks, including first single ‘Blue Ceiling’ and new single ‘Flight’, are especially stunning – and offer a perfect counterbalance to the more melancholic, spacious instrumental pieces. <em>Bloc4</em> is the fourth Jumpel album to be released through Hidden Shoal.\n\n<em>“the concept driving this new release is an inspired one that affords a marvelous opportunity for dramatic sound exploration.. plays less like the experience of a first-time sightseer excited by the prospect of seeing the usual tourist sights and more like a long-time visitor who regards the journey as a time for reflection and melancholic rumination.”</em> –<strong> Textura on <em>Europa</em></strong>\n\n<em>“Hugely ambient, gentle and suggestive in part, with quiet aspects that lament around each city stop, Europa is a portrait of minimalistic excellence and a passion for discovery, which flourishes with every experimental step across the continent.”</em> – <strong>Igloo on <em>Europa</em></strong>\n\n<iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZvTBqiHxYAk\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','Jumpel&#039;s &quot;Bloc4&quot; Out Now (CD &amp; Digital)!','','publish','closed','open','','jumpels-bloc4-out-now-cd-digital','','','2013-06-11 01:04:47','2013-06-11 01:04:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6638',0,'post','',0),(6652,1,'2013-06-13 06:12:04','2013-06-13 06:12:04','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Liam Singer\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/liam-singer.jpg\" width=\"139\" height=\"113\" />Ahead of the release of his absolutely stunning new album <em>Arc Iris</em> (11 July 2013), we\'re excited to announce that <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48&amp;zenid=3810e5ab35b6a90c6ded172bdc9434c3\">Liam Singer</a> will be gracing the fair folk of England and Belgium with his wonderful live show. These shows are not to be missed as Singer will be performing tracks from the new album as well as gems from his back catalogue. Details as follows:\n\n<b>ENGLAND\nJune 20th</b> - Winchester @ <a href=\"http://www.railwaylive.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Railway Inn</a> (w/ The Great Park)\n<b>June 23rd</b> - London @ <a href=\"http://www.thevictoriae3.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Victoria</a> (Sinful Supper w/ Laura Moody)\n<b>June 25th </b>- Bristol @ <a href=\"http://thelookingglassbristol.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Looking Glass</a> (w/ Will Newsome)\n<b>June 26th</b> - London @ <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/33ChatsworthRd\" target=\"_blank\">T</a><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/33ChatsworthRd\" target=\"_blank\">he Dentist</a> (w/ FOXOUT)\n\n<b>BELGIUM\nJune 28th</b> - Liege @ <a href=\"http://www.lanvert.be/lanvert.htm\" target=\"_blank\">L\'an Vert</a> (w/ Seesayle)\n<b>June 29th</b> - Brussels @ House Show\n\nFans eager to get their ears wrapped around the new release will get another window in on the 24th of June when we release the second single from the album, \'Nine Ten\'. For now though enjoy the first single \'Stranger I Know\' via the stream below or grab the free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know[/soundcloud]','Liam Singer England/Belgium Mini Tour','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singer-england-and-belgium-mini-tour','','','2014-08-01 02:30:11','2014-08-01 02:30:11','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6652',0,'post','',0),(6659,1,'2013-06-17 05:39:51','2013-06-17 05:39:51','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/tangled-star/\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6660\" alt=\"adjourn_MED\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/adjourn_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Coinciding with this week\'s release of Tangled Star\'s brilliant new album <em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em>, awesome Perth radio station RTRFM have made it this week\'s <a href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/featured-albums/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden/\" target=\"_blank\">Local Feature Album</a>. <em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em> will be played across RTRFM shows each day this week and the station will also be giving away a copy of the limited edition CD every day for a bunch of lucky listeners. Craig Hallsworth from Tangled Star will also be interviewed on Thursday\'s <a href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/shows/otl/\" target=\"_blank\">Out To Lunch</a> show by the wonderful Dave Cutbush.\n\n<em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden </em>will be officially released on the 18th June in digital and limited edition CD formats. Check out the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/tangled-star/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> from the 18th for all details and also to nab the free single from the album \'Head In The Sand\'.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/tangled-star-in-bed-with-the[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Tangled Star - \'In Bed With The Averys\'</strong>','RTRFM Feature Album for Tangled Star&#039;s &quot;Let&#039;s Adjourn To The Garden&quot;','','publish','closed','open','','rtrfm-feature-album-for-tangled-stars-lets-adjourn-to-the-garden','','','2016-02-03 16:14:34','2016-02-03 08:14:34','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6659',0,'post','',0),(6664,1,'2013-06-18 02:41:08','2013-06-18 02:41:08','<a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/adjourn_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We\'re extremely excited to announce the release of Tangled Star\'s fantastic new album <a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\" target=\"_self\"><em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em></a>. The album is available in limited edition CD and digital formats (FLAC + MP3) with all CD orders through Hidden Shoal coming with an immediate download of the album (FLAC or MP3). You can stream and purchase the album now at the <a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\" target=\"_self\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and also <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=15&amp;products_id=229\" target=\"_self\">download</a> the brilliant first single ‘Head In The Sand’.\n\n<em>“They make me think of some of Flying Nun’s kiwi poppers, and briefly a fuzzed and rockier The Go-Betweens. This is indie pop at its best. Sugar-coated, yet a bit raw. Rich-sounding and many-flavoured. A true pop gem.”</em> - <strong>Luna Kafe on ‘Head In The Sand’ Single</strong>\n\n<em>“blessed with an acute ability to have you all at once marvelling aglow in subdued awe at the spectacle of their delicately calibrated caress like airy drift pop while simultaneously drawing you low amid the affecting undertow of bruised hurt... that self same cosy toed bitter sweet melancholia of wallowing crestfallen country tweaked tides that at one time a few years ago appeared to be the sole trademark sound of both Pavement and Garlic. Tasty stuff.”</em> - <strong>Losing Today on <em>That Time</em> EP</strong>\n\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.  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’ exemplifies Tangled Star’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.\n\n<em>[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/tangled-star-head-in-the-sand[/soundcloud]</em><strong></strong>','Tangled Star&#039;s &quot;Let&#039;s Adjourn To The Garden&quot; Out Now!','','publish','closed','open','','tangled-stars-lets-adjourn-to-the-garden-out-now','','','2016-02-03 16:15:02','2016-02-03 08:15:02','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6664',0,'post','',0),(6675,1,'2013-06-18 04:47:45','2013-06-18 04:47:45','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Bloc4\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Bloc4_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Jumpel\'s gorgeous new album <a href=\"http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2\"><em>Bloc4</em></a> is currently being featured over at wonderful Sydney radio station <a href=\"http://www.2ser.com/news-a-events/servin-up\" target=\"_blank\">2ser</a>. Here\'s their write up on the album,\n\n<em>\"Jumpel is a Berlin-based producer with his heart firmly placed in the electronic scene that emerged in the 90s and got quickly coined as IDM – Intelligent Dance Music. The sound\'s making a comeback of sorts and the man is freshly poised with a new album of beautiful and delicate creations, ticking over on whirring and purring beats set against coolly drifting guitars and absorbing textural atmospheres. The new twist this time around is British vocalist and pianist Chloe March, making a human touch within sound oh-so alien.\"</em> <strong>- 2ser</strong>\n\nGrab yourself a copy of the album in limited edition CD format and digital (FLAC + MP3) over at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. You can also grab the first two singles from the album for free download while you\'re there. Nice or what!\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/jumpel-blue-ceiling[/soundcloud]\n\n&nbsp;','Jumpel&#039;s &quot;Bloc4&quot; Featured on 2ser','','publish','closed','open','','jumpels-bloc4-featured-on-2ser','','','2013-06-18 04:47:45','2013-06-18 04:47:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6675',0,'post','',0),(6679,1,'2013-06-18 04:51:14','2013-06-18 04:51:14','\"<em>\"Jumpel is a Berlin-based producer with his heart firmly placed in the electronic scene that emerged in the 90s and got quickly coined as IDM – Intelligent Dance Music. The sound\'s making a comeback of sorts and the man is freshly poised with a new album of beautiful and delicate creations, ticking over on whirring and purring beats set against coolly drifting guitars and absorbing textural atmospheres. The new twist this time around is British vocalist and pianist Chloe March, making a human touch within sound oh-so alien.\"</em>\n\n<strong>- 2ser</strong>','Jumpel &quot;Bloc4&quot; Airplay Review at 2ser','','publish','closed','open','','jumpel-bloc4-airplay-review-at-2ser','','','2013-06-18 04:51:14','2013-06-18 04:51:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6679',0,'post','',0),(6683,1,'2013-06-20 02:39:39','2013-06-20 02:39:39','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Tangled Star\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/File/tangledstar/treepeople.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"78\" />Don\'t forget to tune in to <a href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/shows/otl/\" target=\"_blank\">Out To Lunch</a> today on <a href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/\" target=\"_blank\">RTRFM</a> as Dave Cutbush interviews Craig Hallsworth from Tangled Star (and beyond!). Out To Lunch rolls from 12-3pm (Perth time) and if you;re not near a radio (or Perth!) the show can be <a href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/\" target=\"_blank\">streamed live</a> or <a href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/shows/otl/\" target=\"_blank\">re-streamed</a>.','Craig Hallsworth of Tangled Star Interviewed on RTRFM Today','','publish','closed','open','','craig-hallsworth-of-tangled-star-interviewed-on-rtrfm-today','','','2016-02-03 16:14:00','2016-02-03 08:14:00','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6683',0,'post','',0),(6687,1,'2013-06-21 05:29:53','2013-06-21 05:29:53','Craig Hallsworth\'s interview with Dave Cutbush on RTRFM yesterday is now up on the <a href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/story/a-tangled-garden-of-stars/ \" target=\"_blank\">RTR site for your listening pleasure</a>. For those not in the know, Hallsworth is one of the most enduring and talented songwriters Perth has produced. From all the way to back to the amazing Bamboos in the 80\'s through to his current project <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/tangled-star/\">Tangled Star</a> in 2013 and everything in between (The Healers, Outstation, The Slow Beings etc).\n\nBe sure to check out the new <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/tangled-star/\">Tangled Star</a> album <a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\"><em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em></a> if you\'ve not already fallen prey to it\'s unending charms.','Listen to the Craig Hallsworth Interview on RTRFM','','publish','closed','open','','listen-to-the-craig-hallsworth-interview-on-rtrfm','','','2016-02-03 16:14:33','2016-02-03 08:14:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6687',0,'post','',0),(6692,1,'2013-06-25 02:44:43','2013-06-25 02:44:43','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/liam-singer.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"147\" />‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=234\">Nine Ten</a>’, the second single to be taken from <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Liam Singer</a>’s awe-inspiring fourth album <i>Arc Iris</i>, is perhaps the most hauntingly beautiful song in all of the talented composer’s canon. With spine-tingling backing vocals from Wendy Allen (<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=45\">Boxharp</a>), the song is built around a plaintive piano melody, upon which Singer intones a lonely lyric that alludes to lost childhood, to yearning for connection, to the redemptive powers of music. Simultaneously luminous and deeply shadowed, ‘Nine Ten’ is perfectly realised and achingly sad.\n\n\'Nine Ten\' is the second teaser from Liam Singer\'s forthcoming<em> Arc Iris</em> which drops on the 11th of July.<em> </em> The album is melodically and compositionally complex and layered with varied instrumentation whilst never losing site of its pop leanings.  It’s rare to find such arresting compositional talent married not only to an innate sense of melody and emotion, but also to a keen sense of texture and atmosphere. <em>Arc Iris</em> merges these elements and blurs any lines that divide them. The album is a sonic collaboration with Scott Solter, evolving over the course of ten months, with the extensive layering and tweaking of sounds and arrangements, including the invention of an electronically-aided glass harmonica! Sonically, the album exists in a sort of hallucinatory haze, influenced by both The Soft Bulletin and Pet Sounds, yet resembling neither.\n\n\'Nine Ten\' and the first single from <em>Arc Iris,</em> \'Stranger I Know\', are available for free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-nine-ten[/soundcloud]','New Single from Liam Singer - Free Download','','draft','closed','open','','new-single-from-liam-singer-free-download','','','2014-08-01 02:30:11','2014-08-01 02:30:11','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6692',0,'post','',0),(9781,1,'2014-07-21 13:23:46','2014-07-21 13:23:46','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<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 13:23:46','2014-07-21 13:23:46','',9780,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/9780-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6704,1,'2013-07-01 04:55:47','2013-07-01 04:55:47','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Bloc4\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Bloc4_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />We\'re very excited to announce that the sumptuous 4th album by German producer <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/&amp;zenid=8439b157d5c64aa7d8521741830da720\">Jumpel </a>is a Feature Album on <a href=\"http://www.rtrfm.com.au/\" target=\"_blank\">RTRFM</a> all this week. Tracks from <a href=\"http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2\"><em>Bloc4 </em></a>will be played on RTRFM\'s new music show Out To Lunch each day this week and the station will also be giving away a copy of the limited edition CD every day for a bunch of lucky listeners.\n\nBe sure to listen in via radio or <a href=\"http://www.rtrfm.com.au/shows/otl\" target=\"_blank\">stream</a> and head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to grab yourself the first two singles from the album for free and a copy of the album in limited edition CD or digital formats.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/jumpel-flight[/soundcloud]\nJumpel - \'Flight\'','Jumpel&#039;s &quot;Bloc4&quot; Is This Week&#039;s RTRFM Feature Album','','publish','closed','open','','jumpels-bloc4-is-this-weeks-rtrfm-feature-album','','','2013-07-01 04:55:47','2013-07-01 04:55:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6704',0,'post','',0),(6711,1,'2013-07-01 14:10:48','2013-07-01 14:10:48','Tangled Star\'s fantastic new album <em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em> continues to garner radio love. This time the excellent <a href=\"http://www.2ser.com\" target=\"_blank\">2ser</a> (Sydney) has chosen the album and one of this week\'s picks,\n\n<em>\"Speaking of craft, there\'s no more immaculately dealt out in the guitar stakes this week than from Tangled Star. Leader Craig Hallsworth knows his way around a tune with this set of sparkling power-pop, set with a country twang and cosmic touch.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.2ser.com\" target=\"_blank\">2ser</a>\n\nHead to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/tangled-star/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to grab yourself a copy of the album in CD and Digital formats.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/tangled-star-99-ok[/soundcloud]\nTangled Star - \'99% OK\'','Tangled Star&#039;s &quot;Let&#039;s Adjourn To The Garden&quot; Featured at 2ser','','publish','closed','open','','tangled-stars-lets-adjourn-to-the-garden-featured-at-2ser','','','2016-02-03 16:15:02','2016-02-03 08:15:02','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6711',0,'post','',0),(6714,1,'2013-07-01 14:20:33','2013-07-01 14:20:33','<em>“Speaking of craft, there’s no more immaculately dealt out in the guitar stakes this week than from Tangled Star. Leader Craig Hallsworth knows his way around a tune with this set of sparkling power-pop, set with a country twang and cosmic touch.”</em>\n\n– <a href=\"http://www.2ser.com\" target=\"_blank\">2ser</a>','Tangled Star&#039;s &quot;Let&#039;s Adjourn To The Garden&quot; Featured at 2ser','','publish','closed','open','','tangled-stars-lets-adjourn-to-the-garden-featured-at-2ser-2','','','2013-07-01 14:20:33','2013-07-01 14:20:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6714',0,'post','',0),(6719,1,'2013-07-08 09:24:43','2013-07-08 09:24:43','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6720\" alt=\"Arc Iris\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/arciris_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Ahead of its release later this week <a title=\"Liam Singer\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Liam Singer</a>\'s sublime new album <em>Arc Iris</em> is the current Out To Lunch feature album at Perth\'s brilliant <a href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/\" target=\"_blank\">RTRFM</a> radio station. Tracks from <em>Arc Iris</em><em> </em>will be played on RTRFM’s new music show <a title=\"RTRFM\" href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/shows/otl/\" target=\"_blank\">Out To Lunch</a> each day this week and the station will also be giving away a copy of the limited edition CD every day for a bunch of lucky listeners. Be sure to listen in via radio or <a href=\"http://www.rtrfm.com.au/shows/otl\" target=\"_blank\">stream</a> and head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to grab yourself the first two singles from the album for free and a copy of the album in limited edition CD or digital formats.\n\n<em>Arc Iris</em> is available in digital and CD formats on 11 July through <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a>. The first two singles from the album \'Stranger I Know\' and \'Nine Ten\' are available now for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\" target=\"_blank\">free download</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-nine-ten[/soundcloud]','Liam Singer&#039;s &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Is This Week&#039;s RTRFM Feature Album!','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singers-arc-iris-is-this-weeks-rtrfm-feature-album','','','2014-08-01 02:30:11','2014-08-01 02:30:11','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6719',0,'post','',0),(6730,1,'2013-07-11 00:42:57','2013-07-11 00:42:57','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Arc Iris\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/arciris_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is very excited to announce the release of<i> Arc Iris</i>, the fourth album by Queens-based chamber-pop experimentalist Liam Singer. <em>Arc Iris</em> is rich in wondrous, resonant details and dizzyingly deft songcraft, including recent singles ‘Stranger I Know’ and ‘Nine Ten’. The album is melodically and compositionally complex and layered with varied instrumentation whilst never losing site of its pop leanings.  It’s rare to find such arresting compositional talent married not only to an innate sense of melody and emotion, but also to a keen sense of texture and atmosphere. <i>Arc Iris</i> merges these elements and blurs any lines that divide them.\n\nThe album is a sonic collaboration with Scott Solter, evolving over the course of ten months, with the extensive layering and tweaking of sounds and arrangements, including the invention of an electronically-aided glass harmonica! Sonically, the album exists in a sort of hallucinatory haze, influenced by both The Soft Bulletin and Pet Sounds, yet resembling neither.\n\n<em>Arc Iris</em> is available now from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\" target=\"_self\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> in limited edition CD  and digital formats (Mp3 and FLAC) with all CD orders coming with an immediate download of the album. The first two singles from the album are also available for free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\" target=\"_self\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. Liam Singer\'s previous album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=155\" target=\"_self\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=155\">Dislocatia</a> is also available in CD and digital formats.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Liam Singer - \'Stranger I Know\'</strong>','Liam Singer&#039;s &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Out Now!','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singers-arc-iris-out-now','','','2014-08-01 02:30:10','2014-08-01 02:30:10','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6730',0,'post','',0),(6744,1,'2013-07-11 23:46:37','2013-07-11 23:46:37','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/antonymes/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/licence_MED.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Antonymes</a>\' stunning track \'The Door Towards The Dream\', from the universally acclaimed 2011 album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=49&amp;products_id=167\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em></a>, is featured in a video created by the State Library of Victoria to illustrate <a href=\"http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/audio-video/evolution-library-site\" target=\"_blank\">the evolution of the Library site</a>. Visit the <a href=\"http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/\" target=\"_blank\">State Library of Victoria\'s website</a> to view the video and learn more about the Library\'s collections and events, and visit the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to stream and purchase releases by Antonymes and other Hidden Shoal artists.\n<em></em>','Antonymes Track Featured in State Library of Victoria Video','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-track-featured-in-state-library-of-victoria-video','','','2016-02-03 13:41:23','2016-02-03 05:41:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6744',0,'post','',0),(6748,1,'2013-07-16 07:29:58','2013-07-16 07:29:58','\"Liam Singer has become one of my favorite artists putting out larger than life pop records over the last few years. This is the fourth release form the Queens local, and in my estimation, the record that breaks him into a larger audience than the music blogs and indie radio stations that have been championing him.\n\nSinger has always taken parts of the 60s and 70s layered pop approach and spun his own voice into those genres. I figure most that listen to Arc Iris will immediately make a comparison to Pet Sounds and Sufjan Stevens, but those influences are only part of this record’s approach. Liam’s melancholy tone and lyrics are a far cry from the sunny summer psychedlia of Brian Wilson, and Singer’s elegant use of instrumentation puts him on a different path than the odd chord and timing arrangements studied in the classic Beach Boy records. “Stranger I Know,” my favorite track off the album, captures a man trying to find elation and release in the darkness of the city and the copious strangers that inhabit it.\n\nThis is a record to be heard with the highest quality audio equipment you have (your dinky laptop speakers will not do it justice). So bust out the Hi-fi headphones, check out the free to download songs, and then kick Hidden Shoal Records a few bucks for putting out this wonderful record\"\n\n-<a href=\"http://spacerockmountain.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/liam-singer-arc-iris-2013.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spacerockmountain</a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed at Spacerockmountain','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-at-spacerockmountain','','','2013-07-16 07:29:58','2013-07-16 07:29:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6748',0,'post','',0),(6755,1,'2013-07-17 23:05:21','2013-07-17 23:05:21','<div>\n\n<a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bari\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Markus Mehr - \" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/bari_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of the new <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bari\" target=\"_self\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bari\">freely downloadable</a> album <em>Live in Bari</em> by German experimental ambient artist Markus Mehr. <em>Live in Bari</em> is a triumphant rendition of Mehr\'s critically acclaimed album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\" target=\"_self\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\"><em>Off</em></a>, performed live with video artist Stefanie Sixt. The 45-minute piece immerses the listener in a dizzyingly beautiful yet often punishing soundworld that’s ever-shifting. Certain passages allude to other sequences and samples from Mehr’s preceding albums, linking them into a kaleidoscopic mobius strip.\n\n<em>“They’re ‘big’ compositions, the sheer scale of the sonic work is rather awe inspiring, but they never sound antagonistic or uncomfortable… it sounds like the ebb and flow of space itself – individual snippets of a grand, repeating, organic process that keeps the universe in balance…”</em> – <strong>No Ripcord</strong>\n\nLive in Bari was recorded at Timezones festival in Bari, Italy in November 2012. The four-day festival involved collaboration between Markus Mehr, Alessandra Celletti, Andrea Mangia, Massimo Carrieri, Salah addin Roberto Re David, James Brooks and Charles Hayward in the rehearsal and performance of John Cage’s ‘Musicircus’. Off was performed live at the Doppelgaenger Gallery to a rapturous reception.\n\nYou can download the album for free in MP3 and FLAC formats from the <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bari\" target=\"_self\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bari\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and <a title=\"Bandcamp\" href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bari\">Bandcamp</a> and also stream the album in full over at <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-live-in-bari\" target=\"_self\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-live-in-bari\">SoundCloud</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-live-in-bari[/soundcloud]\n\n</div>','Markus Mehr &quot;Live in Bari&quot; - Free Download &amp; Stream!','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-live-in-bari-free-download-stream','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6755',0,'post','',0),(6762,1,'2013-07-30 04:01:55','2013-07-30 04:01:55','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/arciris.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/liam-singer/\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Singer</a>\'s stunning new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a><em> </em>(including the singles <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=223\" target=\"_blank\">\'Stranger I Know\'</a> and <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=234\" target=\"_blank\">\'Nine Ten\'</a>) is one of Textura\'s feature albums in the new August/September edition, with a <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/singer_arciris.htm\" target=\"_blank\">glowing review</a> and a <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/backtracking_liamsinger.htm\" target=\"_blank\">track-by-track commentary by Liam Singer himself</a>. Textura has long been one of our favourite music sites, so it\'s great to see Liam\'s beautiful new album getting coverage there, after <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=155\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dislocatia </em></a>was voted one of their <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/2010top10s.htm\" target=\"_blank\">favourite albums of 2010</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-nine-ten[/soundcloud]','Liam Singer&#039;s Arc Iris Feature Album in Textura','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singers-arc-iris-feature-album-in-textura','','','2014-08-01 02:30:10','2014-08-01 02:30:10','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6762',0,'post','',0),(6765,1,'2013-07-30 04:08:48','2013-07-30 04:08:48','In textura\'s review of Liam Singer\'s 2010 release <em>Dislocatia</em>, we wrote, “Of all of the figures working in the electronic music field today, none sounds more destined for a side-career in operatic theatre composing than Liam Singer. Some enterprising Broadway producer should commission the man before others secure his considerable talents.” The Queens-based chamber-pop artist\'s fourth full-length <em>Arc Iris </em> does nothing to dissuade us from reiterating that earlier sentiment. It\'s a wonderful fourteen-song set that suggests Singer is well-capable of creating a work as dynamic and memorable as John Adams\' <em>I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky </em> (1995) and Philip Glass\'s <em>Songs from Liquid Days </em> (1986). With its songs bookended by a prelude and related closer, <em>Arc Iris </em> structurally simulates a song cycle, too.\n\nSinger deftly manages the not easy feat of making music that\'s compositionally sophisticated yet immediately accessible—no listener will need to work hard to appreciate the ravishing pop melodies spread so plentifully throughout the set. It\'s not a wholly solo affair, however. Wendy Allen (Boxharp), members of Slow Six/Wires Under Tension, and bassist Dan Shuman (Monocle) contribute, and more critical is the involvement of Scott Solter, who collaborated with Singer on the album\'s creation over a ten-month period (Solter also served as production midwife for Singer\'s second album, <em>Our Secret Lies Beneath The Creek</em>, and <em>Dislocatia</em>).\n\nThere are moments when the album calls to mind the the more daring work created by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks for <em>Smile</em>. That\'s especially so on purely sonic grounds when <em>Arc Iris</em>\'s palette offers such an instrumentally rich listen. Wilson long ago coined the term ‘pocket symphony\' for the fantastical constructions to which he gave birth, and the term could be applied to operatic roller-coasters like “The Astronaut” and “Dear Sister/Gears Turn in Gears.” There are moments when <em>Arc Iris </em> evokes other composers, too (Philip Glass in the cycling woodwind patterns in “Disappear and Appear,” for example), but for the most part Singer\'s his own man. Despite their intricate construction, Singer\'s songs exude a graceful quality that connects directly with the listener, and that applies to instrumentals, too, as attested to by the lovely “Coma Nocturne.”\n\nBaroque instrumental touches do, in fact, give “Prelude (Into the Luminous Currents)” a luminous quality, before the album\'s first standout, the haunting “Stranger I Know,” appears. Graced by a stirring vocal melody as well as stirring vocal counterpoint between Singer and a background choir, the song is one of the album\'s strongest arguments for his gifts (the instrumental interweave of cello and clarinet is lovely, too). Also powerful: “Nine Ten,” which is buoyed by some of the album\'s loveliest melodies; “Forever Blossoming,” a dramatic outpouring distinguished by Singer\'s heartfelt vocal and classical piano playing; and the comparatively light-hearted “Unhand Me (You Horrid Thing).” Contrasts of mood and tempo abound: propelled by galloping motorik rhythms, “O Endless Storm” exudes an appropriate degree of tumult, for example, while the instrumental setting “The Dance of Cupid and Psyche” presents itself as an elegant, piano-driven lilt.\n\nIf there\'s a misstep, it\'s “Eye Eclipse Eye,” whose deteriorated sound design feels out of keeping with the polished presentation of the other songs. But errors are few and far between on the album, and one comes away from it thoroughly won over. Singer\'s exceptional command of melody, compositional form, and arrangement are on full display, and the performances are first-rate, too. <em>Arc Iris </em> is forty-three minutes of music guaranteed to make you swoon.','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed at textura','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-at-textura','','','2013-07-30 04:08:48','2013-07-30 04:08:48','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6765',0,'post','',0),(6770,1,'2013-07-30 08:29:56','2013-07-30 08:29:56','\"In textura\'s review of Liam Singer\'s 2010 release <em>Dislocatia</em>, we wrote, “Of all of the figures working in the electronic music field today, none sounds more destined for a side-career in operatic theatre composing than Liam Singer. Some enterprising Broadway producer should commission the man before others secure his considerable talents.” The Queens-based chamber-pop artist\'s fourth full-length <em>Arc Iris </em> does nothing to dissuade us from reiterating that earlier sentiment. It\'s a wonderful fourteen-song set that suggests Singer is well-capable of creating a work as dynamic and memorable as John Adams\' <em>I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky </em> (1995) and Philip Glass\'s <em>Songs from Liquid Days </em> (1986). With its songs bookended by a prelude and related closer, <em>Arc Iris </em> structurally simulates a song cycle, too.\n\nSinger deftly manages the not easy feat of making music that\'s compositionally sophisticated yet immediately accessible—no listener will need to work hard to appreciate the ravishing pop melodies spread so plentifully throughout the set. It\'s not a wholly solo affair, however. Wendy Allen (Boxharp), members of Slow Six/Wires Under Tension, and bassist Dan Shuman (Monocle) contribute, and more critical is the involvement of Scott Solter, who collaborated with Singer on the album\'s creation over a ten-month period (Solter also served as production midwife for Singer\'s second album, <em>Our Secret Lies Beneath The Creek</em>, and <em>Dislocatia</em>).\n\nThere are moments when the album calls to mind the the more daring work created by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks for <em>Smile</em>. That\'s especially so on purely sonic grounds when <em>Arc Iris</em>\'s palette offers such an instrumentally rich listen. Wilson long ago coined the term ‘pocket symphony\' for the fantastical constructions to which he gave birth, and the term could be applied to operatic roller-coasters like “The Astronaut” and “Dear Sister/Gears Turn in Gears.” There are moments when <em>Arc Iris </em> evokes other composers, too (Philip Glass in the cycling woodwind patterns in “Disappear and Appear,” for example), but for the most part Singer\'s his own man. Despite their intricate construction, Singer\'s songs exude a graceful quality that connects directly with the listener, and that applies to instrumentals, too, as attested to by the lovely “Coma Nocturne.”\n\nBaroque instrumental touches do, in fact, give “Prelude (Into the Luminous Currents)” a luminous quality, before the album\'s first standout, the haunting “Stranger I Know,” appears. Graced by a stirring vocal melody as well as stirring vocal counterpoint between Singer and a background choir, the song is one of the album\'s strongest arguments for his gifts (the instrumental interweave of cello and clarinet is lovely, too). Also powerful: “Nine Ten,” which is buoyed by some of the album\'s loveliest melodies; “Forever Blossoming,” a dramatic outpouring distinguished by Singer\'s heartfelt vocal and classical piano playing; and the comparatively light-hearted “Unhand Me (You Horrid Thing).” Contrasts of mood and tempo abound: propelled by galloping motorik rhythms, “O Endless Storm” exudes an appropriate degree of tumult, for example, while the instrumental setting “The Dance of Cupid and Psyche” presents itself as an elegant, piano-driven lilt.\n\nIf there\'s a misstep, it\'s “Eye Eclipse Eye,” whose deteriorated sound design feels out of keeping with the polished presentation of the other songs. But errors are few and far between on the album, and one comes away from it thoroughly won over. Singer\'s exceptional command of melody, compositional form, and arrangement are on full display, and the performances are first-rate, too. <em>Arc Iris </em> is forty-three minutes of music guaranteed to make you swoon.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://textura.org/reviews/singer_arciris.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed in Textura','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-in-textura','','','2013-07-30 08:29:56','2013-07-30 08:29:56','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6770',0,'post','',0),(6772,1,'2013-07-30 08:31:15','2013-07-30 08:31:15','\"It makes some kind of perfect sense that Joe Dürbeck would title his fourth Hidden Shoal Jumpel album <em>Bloc4</em>, given the architectural association it invokes and the careful construction of a typical Jumpel track. Specifically, we\'re informed that the fifty-one-minute album centers on the “elevated yet lonely world of a tower block, each track poetically investigating its multi-faceted elements and spaces.”\n\nA typical Jumpel instrumental is less characterized by narrative progression of the kind where a gradual exposition culminates in a grandiose climax; instead, it\'s more akin to a near-frozen landscape setting whose fascinating details come into clearer focus the longer the camera monitors the scene—things initially unnoticed gradually turn into focal points as perception shifts from one part of the image to another and as the camera slowly pans from side to side. That\'s especially the case during ambient-styled settings such as “Gaze at the Sky,” “Pool,” and “Corruption Corner” that seem tailor-made for self-reflection.\n\nOn this album, Jumpel\'s secret weapon is—aside from his own artful scene painting—vocalist Chloë March (with whom Dürbeck collaborated on “Edinburgh” from the <em>Europa </em> single), whose humanizing presence elevates every song on which she appears. Her sensual vocalizing acts as a dramatic counterpoint to Dürbeck\'s instrumental designs, which by comparison epitomize cool control. She wasn\'t simply brought in at the eleventh hour to add vocals to the tracks either; after presenting her with the album concept, Dürbeck invited her to select certain tracks and develop vocal ideas for them. Her soft, smoky delivery leaves a haunting impression when it first appears in “Appartment” and in the later “Flight,” a rare rhythm-heavy piece, and the hypnotic “Rook.” One of <em>Bloc4</em>\'s loveliest pieces is “Blue Ceiling,” which pairs a slow backing packed with percussion and warbly synthesizers (reminiscent of Eno\'s <em>Music for Films </em> or <em>Another Green World</em>) with an alluringly hushed vocal by March.\n\nAs memorable as the vocal pieces are, there are enticing instrumental moments, too. The flute-like melody wafting delicately through the quietly breezy “Monica\'s Room” exudes a mellotron quality that introduces an early prog dimension, while elegant piano playing acts as a stark contrast to alien ambient noises during “Floor 4.” Certain track titles suggest a strong programmatic dimension: filled as it is with tiny electronic noises, “Greenhouse” conjures the image of a humid, enclosed space filled with plant life, insects, and birds.\n\nSans vocals, Jumpel\'s music plays like some distinctive merger of ambient, post-rock, and krautrock, with piano, guitar, bass, percussion, and electronics woven with great care and circumspection into polished miniatures. Melody abounds but it\'s deployed subtly and acts more as part of the overall fabric than as a focal point. Stated more generally, Dürbeck emphasizes intimacy and understatement in the album\'s fifteen meticulous constructions. On a commercial level, such an approach likely lessens his chances of making a huge splash, but artistically it pays off handsomely.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://textura.org/reviews/jumpel_bloc4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a>','Jumpel &quot;Bloc4&quot; Reviewed at Textura','','publish','closed','open','','jumpel-bloc4-reviewed-at-textura','','','2013-07-30 08:31:15','2013-07-30 08:31:15','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6772',0,'post','',0),(6775,1,'2013-07-30 08:43:35','2013-07-30 08:43:35','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Jumpel\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Bloc4_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Following on from the attention received from Textura for Liam Singer\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a>, another Hidden Shoal artist is also making waves at the site. Jumpel\'s stunning release <em>Bloc 4 </em>has just received a <a title=\"Jumpel &quot;Bloc4&quot; Review at Textura\" href=\"http://textura.org/reviews/jumpel_bloc4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">glowing review</a> and was chosen as one of their releases of the month,\n\n<em>\"On this album, Jumpel\'s secret weapon is—aside from his own artful scene painting—vocalist Chloë March (with whom Dürbeck collaborated on “Edinburgh” from the Europa single), whose humanizing presence elevates every song on which she appears. Her sensual vocalizing acts as a dramatic counterpoint to Dürbeck\'s instrumental designs, which by comparison epitomize cool control...Sans vocals, Jumpel\'s music plays like some distinctive merger of ambient, post-rock, and krautrock, with piano, guitar, bass, percussion, and electronics woven with great care and circumspection into polished miniatures. Melody abounds but it\'s deployed subtly and acts more as part of the overall fabric than as a focal point. Stated more generally, Dürbeck emphasizes intimacy and understatement in the album\'s fifteen meticulous constructions. On a commercial level, such an approach likely lessens his chances of making a huge splash, but artistically it pays off handsomely.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://textura.org/reviews/jumpel_bloc4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a>\n\nCheck out <em>Bloc4</em> and grab the first two singles from the album for <strong>free</strong> at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/jumpel-blue-ceiling[/soundcloud]','Glowing Review for Jumpel&#039;s &quot;Bloc4&quot; at Textura','','publish','closed','open','','glowing-review-for-jumpels-bloc4-at-textura','','','2013-07-30 08:43:35','2013-07-30 08:43:35','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6775',0,'post','',0),(6779,1,'2013-07-30 14:49:35','2013-07-30 14:49:35','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Liam Singer\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/liam-singer.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"162\" />If you are anywhere near New York on the 14th of August or have some frequent flyer miles to chew up then make sure you head to Union Pool in Brooklyn to celebrate the release of Liam Singer\'s latest opus, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a>. Liam will be playing with a full ensemble of percussion, strings and more. <em>Arc Iris</em> is an incredibly special suite of songs and the experience of  hearing them brought to life in front of your very ears is one not to be missed! Joining Liam Singer on the bill will be Wires.Under.Tension. and James Armata.\n\nStart Times:\n9:00 - James Armata\n10:00 - Liam Singer\n11:00 - Wires Under Tension','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; New York CD Launch','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-new-york-cd-launch-show','','','2014-08-01 02:30:10','2014-08-01 02:30:10','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6779',0,'post','',0),(6788,1,'2013-07-31 08:11:03','2013-07-31 08:11:03','\"The present reviewer felt more than ambivalent about <strong>In</strong>, the first installment of the Markus Mehr trilogy that now comes to a close. It was the juxtaposition of soft dreams and brutal reality, swaying, romantic strings and congenial, diverting piano bullied by guitar distortion that puzzled me. It just didn’t seem to jell. The second chapter, <strong>On</strong>, posited the same ambient-noise dichotomy and I remained bemused. In all fairness, mine was a minority opinion, as waves of reviewers praised both albums to the skies.\n\nDoes it all come together in the final chapter? <strong>Off</strong> is a single, forty-two minute epic in which Mehr begins his sortie with an impeccably woven ambient tapestry, braiding threads from the two previous releases into an utterly transportive synthesizer line shrouded with static cling, a textural counterpoint to its dreamy, Mediterranean blue weightlessness.\n\nExactly half way through, however, a nascent piano solo is quickly overcome by a fever dream of chanting monks, electronic dolphin squeaks and things slipping out of hands. For a while, jump-cut samples and even the previously denied piano grapple. That sweet synthesizer never lets go, but Mehr has turned the first half of <strong>Off</strong> inside-out for the second half. Is he too restless to just linger? I remain torn, this time almost exactly in half.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/markus-mehr-off-hidden-shoal\" target=\"_blank\">Igloo Mag</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;Off&quot; Reviewed at Igloo Mag','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-off-reviewed-at-igloo-mag','','','2013-07-31 08:11:03','2013-07-31 08:11:03','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6788',0,'post','',0),(6792,1,'2013-08-08 08:42:28','2013-08-08 08:42:28','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/adjourn_MED.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6660\" alt=\"&quot;Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/adjourn_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Head over to <a title=\"Mess and Noise\" href=\"http://messandnoise.com/articles/4605694\" target=\"_blank\">Mess and Noise</a> and check out a fantastic track by track expose of <a title=\"Tangled Star\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/tangled-star/\" target=\"_blank\">Tangled Star</a>\'s latest album <a title=\"Tangled Star - Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden\" href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\"><em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em></a>. Those of you who are familiar with Craig Hallsworth\'s work with band\'s like Tangled Star, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-slow-beings/\" target=\"_blank\">The Slow Beings</a>, Outstation and The Healers will know that his lyrical excursions are both playful and intelligent. His musings on these tracks further verify his place as a thinking mans rocksmith. He makes music that is not only melodically exciting but through his twisting wordplay, also cerebrally so!\n\nIf you\'ve not yet managed to get your ears around <em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em> you can stream each track within the <a title=\"Mess and Noise\" href=\"http://messandnoise.com/articles/4605694\" target=\"_blank\">Mess and Noise feature</a> and then head to the <a title=\"Tangled Star - Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden\" href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-gardenhttp://\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to buy yourself a copy.','Tangled Star Feature at Mess and Noise','','publish','closed','open','','tangled-star-feature-at-mess-and-noise','','','2016-02-03 16:15:01','2016-02-03 08:15:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6792',0,'post','',0),(6795,1,'2013-08-08 09:09:04','2013-08-08 09:09:04','Fans of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Liam Singer</a> should head over to the <a href=\"http://blog.hiddenshoal.com/liam-singers-listening-post/\">Hidden Shoal blog</a> where the man is sharing the top 5 albums that are currently buzzing his buttons! If you\'ve not yet had the pleasure of checking out Singer\'s latest masterpiece, <em>Arc Iris</em>, then do your ears a favour and head <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\">here</a>.','Liam Singer Top 5 Album Picks','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singer-top-5-album-picks','','','2014-08-01 02:30:10','2014-08-01 02:30:10','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6795',0,'post','',0),(6797,1,'2013-08-09 09:05:27','2013-08-09 09:05:27','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"I Razor\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/irazor.jpg\" width=\"87\" height=\"87\" />Great news for the brilliant soundtrack to <a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\"><em>I Razor</em></a>, featuring work by Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias and Circus Devils. The album is currently sitting at number 10 in the <a href=\"http://www.ashevillefm.org/news/08/2013/asheville-fm-charts-for-the-week-ending-832013\">Asheville FM Top 30</a> and number 1 in their <a href=\"http://www.ashevillefm.org/news/08/2013/asheville-fm-charts-for-the-week-ending-832013\">Experimental chart</a>!\n\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM\" height=\"293\" width=\"520\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','&quot;I Razor&quot; Top 10 Charting at Asheville FM, Number 1 on Experimental Chart!','','publish','closed','open','','i-razor-top-10-charting-at-asheville-fm-number-1-on-experimental-chart','','','2016-02-03 16:39:53','2016-02-03 08:39:53','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6797',0,'post','',0),(6805,1,'2013-08-13 04:51:15','2013-08-13 04:51:15','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Arc Iris\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/arciris.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Liam Singer\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a> has just received a glowing review in Italy\'s high profile indie music site <a href=\"http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2013_liamsinger_arciris.htm\">Onda Rock</a>. We\'ll let you do the <a href=\"http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;prev=_t&amp;sl=it&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2013_liamsinger_arciris.htm#submit\" target=\"_blank\">Google Translate thing</a> if you need to or you can <a href=\"http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2013_liamsinger_arciris.htm\">head to the site</a> to check the review out in all its original Italian glory. Here\'s a snippet,\n\n<em>\"Arc Iris\" works well as a statement about a talent now finally blossomed. An album full of vitality and class that will certainly raise future expectations in respect of its author.\" - </em><a href=\"http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2013_liamsinger_arciris.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Onda Rock</strong></a>','Liam Singer&#039;s &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed in Italy&#039;s Onda Rock','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singers-arc-iris-reviewed-in-italys-onda-rock','','','2014-08-01 02:30:10','2014-08-01 02:30:10','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6805',0,'post','',0),(6807,1,'2013-08-13 04:58:24','2013-08-13 04:58:24','<strong>[Google translated from the Italian. Original <a href=\"http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2013_liamsinger_arciris.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.]</strong>\n\n\"Here is another eagerly awaited return of this 2013. Called to reconfirm after the album \"Dislocatia\", three years ago, had to prick up their ears more than a lover, the singer-songwriter from Queens Liam Singer keeps its promises and has renewed its center.\nThe musical project leverages the award-winning solutions and previous work does not undergo substantial changes, combined with haughty in his symphonies to pop neoclassical furnished rooms.\n\nSinger turns conscientiously their gaze toward the cornerstones of baroque pop and \'60s (\" Odessey And Oracle \",\" Song Cycle \"), both of 90 (\" Deserter\'s Songs \",\" The Soft Bulletin \") and, as the these securities will certainly prove cumbersome only to name them, there is no denying that this album knows revisit history in a peculiar manner.\nThat of \"Arc Iris\" is a golden world, unreal, a nostalgic yearning for a lost classic issued by carole for winds and strings (\"Endless Storm\"), nocturnal piano sonatas (\"The Dance Of Cupid And Psyche\") and dizzy stunts that border on the Gregorian chant melody (\"The Astronaut\").\n\nWhile, admittedly, surprising the audacity of this guy in testing the listener with particularly intricate plots, you wonder even more in front of the ease with which they can live together. Very few indeed are the moments when Singer gives the feeling of wanting to make the step up to the plate: you can blame here and there a little distinctive vocal style or performance that sometimes betrays the icy rigor of academic education, but everything is offset by a way to measure enviable.\nThe same values ​​that makes added before the excesses excursions to the shores of the most amazing <em>dream-pop</em> (\"Appear And Disappear\") and the <em>free-jazz</em> (the cacophony that open fiatistiche \"Forever Blossoming\"). But above all, the same one that allows you to leverage the technical expertise to ringed two little gems such as\' <em>indie-pop</em> inclinations of the cosmic \"Dear Sister Gears / Turn In Gears\" or the sparse piano and acoustic <em>ballad</em> \"Nine Ten\", sung with calm detachment <em>à-la</em> Owen .\n\nDespite the absence of decisive paw to bring the music of Singer Liam beyond a narrow niche of fans, \"Arc Iris\" works well as a statement about a talent now finally blossomed. An album full of vitality and class that will certainly raise future expectations in respect of its author.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2013_liamsinger_arciris.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Onda Rock</strong></a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed in Onda Rock','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-in-onda-rock','','','2013-08-13 04:58:24','2013-08-13 04:58:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6807',0,'post','',0),(6812,1,'2013-08-14 14:29:32','2013-08-14 14:29:32','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Kramies\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" /><a href=\"http://jasonlytle.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Lytle</a> and Kramies give us a sneak peek into their working process for the new Kramies EP. The forthcoming EP, <em>The Wooden Heart</em>, by dream pop craftsman <a title=\"Kramies\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\" target=\"_blank\">Kramies</a> features a collaboration with and co-production from the wonderful Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) along with the magic touch of <a title=\"Todd Tobias\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a> (Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard), also taking on co-production duties.\n\n<em>The Wooden Heart</em> sees the light of day on the 17th October with the first single dropping September 5th. In the meanwhile, be sure to check out Kramies fantastic 2011 EP <a title=\"Kramies\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\"><em>The European</em></a>.<p></p>\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/HE_ZmLKaHo4\" height=\"287\" width=\"510\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','Jason Lytle and Kramies Talk About “The Wooden Heart” EP','','publish','closed','open','','jason-lytle-and-kramies-talk-about-the-wooden-heart-ep','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6812',0,'post','',0),(6826,1,'2013-08-20 04:37:45','2013-08-20 04:37:45','The epic <a title=\"I Razor\" href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\"><em>I Razor</em></a> soundtrack album featuring Robert Pollard, <a title=\"Todd Tobias\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a> and Circus Devils is charting in the <a title=\"CJSW\" href=\"http://cjsw.com/music/charts/2013-08-19/\" target=\"_blank\">CJSW Experimental Top 10</a>! If you haven\'t yet lost yourself in the surreal, dark mystery of this amazing album and film then head over to the <a title=\"I Razor\" href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">Hidden Shoal Store </a>and get educated in it\'s ways.\r\n\r\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/circus-devils-all-the-good[/soundcloud]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','&quot;I Razor&quot; (feat. 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If you haven\'t yet lost yourself in the surreal, dark mystery of this amazing album and film then head over to the <a title=\"I Razor\" href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">Hidden Shoal Store </a>and get educated in it\'s ways.\r\n\r\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/circus-devils-all-the-good[/soundcloud]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','&quot;I Razor&quot; (feat. Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias, Circus Devils) Charting at CJSW','','inherit','closed','closed','','6826-revision-v1','','','2014-08-01 02:58:17','2014-08-01 02:58:17','',6826,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/6826-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6831,1,'2013-08-20 08:57:56','2013-08-20 08:57:56','Check out <a title=\"Misfit City Reviews Liam Singer London Show\" href=\"http://misfitcity.org/2013/08/14/concert-review-liam-singerfoxoutsealionwoman-with-laura-moody-the-dentist-33-chatsworth-road-homerton-london-26th-june-2013-a-gig-in-a-bottle/\" target=\"_blank\">this wonderful review</a> over at one of our favourite music blogs, Misfit City, for the recent show Liam Singer performed ahead of the release of his latest masterpiece <em>Arc Iris</em>. If you appreciate engaged and thoughtful music writing then be sure to check out more of the site. And not one to miss a segue, if you appreciate engaged and thoughtful music then be sure to check our <a title=\"Arc Iris\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a>, out now through <a title=\"Arc Iris\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal in CD, MP3 and Lossless</a> formats!\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-disappear-and[/soundcloud]','Brilliant Review of Liam Singer&#039;s Recent London Show in Misfit City','','draft','closed','open','','brilliant-review-of-liam-singers-recent-london-show-in-misfit-city','','','2014-08-01 02:30:10','2014-08-01 02:30:10','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6831',0,'post','',0),(6833,1,'2013-08-21 09:05:21','2013-08-21 09:05:21','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Tangled Star\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/adjourn.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Tangled Star\'s <a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\"><em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em></a>, Jumpel\'s <a href=\"http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2\"><em>Bloc4</em></a> and the Todd Tobias, Robert Pollard and Circus Devils soundtrack album <a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\"><em>I Razor</em></a> have all been top 5 CMJ adds at Arizona\'s wonderful independent radio station <a href=\"http://www.kbrpradio.com/about.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">KBRP</a>! <em>I Razor</em> was recently the top CMJ add to rotation and is now charting in the top 30 and <em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em> was last week\'s top CMJ add to rotation.','Three Hidden Shoal Releases Get Top CMJ Adds at KBRP','','publish','closed','open','','three-hidden-shoal-releases-getting-top-cmj-adds-at-kbrp','','','2016-02-03 16:40:33','2016-02-03 08:40:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6833',0,'post','',0),(6839,1,'2013-08-28 23:52:14','2013-08-28 23:52:14','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"[The] Caseworker - Dependence Day\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/DependenceDay_LRG.jpg\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" />‘Dependence Day’ is the new,  <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\">freely downloadable single</a> from garage-dreampop trio <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\">[The] Caseworker</a>. The track is lifted from their forthcoming album <i>Voices Out There</i>, out through Hidden Shoal Recordings on 24 October 2013.\n\n‘Dependence Day’ marries [The] Caseworker’s trademark restraint with a strident, slowburning melodic sensibility. A vague memoir to vocalist Conor Devlin’s time spent living in San Francisco, raising a toast to the city while also happily turning his back on it, the track’s atmosphere is ominous yet accessible, with its three-dimensional guitar melodies and crisp drums underpinned by sinuous bass and Devlin’s reassuring purr.\n\n<em>“[The] Caseworker extract darkness from inside whispery, ambient pop… completely enraptured and awesomely dazed” –</em> <strong>Rolling Stone</strong>\n\nThe track is lifted from the band’s fourth album, and their second for Hidden Shoal, <i>Voices Out There</i> which sees [The] Caseworker rein in the lo-fi guitar-pop impulses of acclaimed third album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\"><i>Letters From The Coast</i></a> 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 hinting at haunting vistas just beyond the horizons of these succinct, sad songs.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/the-caseworker-dependence-day[/soundcloud]','[The] Caseworker &#039;Dependence Day&#039; Single (Download &amp; Stream)','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-dependence-day-single-download-stream','','','2016-02-03 16:16:24','2016-02-03 08:16:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6839',0,'post','',0),(6872,1,'2013-08-30 03:06:12','2013-08-30 03:06:12','<a title=\"Liam Singer\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Arc Iris\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/arciris.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Liam Singer</a>\'s beautiful new album <em>Arc Iris</em> has received more review love from Italy, this time in the wonderful Italian blog <a title=\"Music Won\'t Save You\" href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Music Won\'t Save You</a>. Check out the review (non Italian speakers will have to translate!) <a title=\"Music Won\'t Save You - Arc Iris Review\" href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2013/08/14/liam-singer-arc-iris/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> then check out the album <a title=\"Arc Iris\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\">here</a>.','Liam Singer&#039;s &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed at Music Won&#039;t Save You','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singers-arc-iris-reviewed-at-music-wont-save-you','','','2014-08-01 02:30:09','2014-08-01 02:30:09','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6872',0,'post','',0),(6874,1,'2013-08-30 03:08:40','2013-08-30 03:08:40','[Google translated from the original. Read the original Italian version <a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2013/08/14/liam-singer-arc-iris/\">here</a>.]\n\n\"<span><span>It\'s easy to label with the all-encompassing definition of chamber-folk records in which the composition flair of an author expands to create multi-faceted musical contexts for his songs; equally superficial and misleading would establish similarities or - worse - to a ancestries musical formula rich and refined as that of Liam Singer, now with \"Arc Iris\" to the fourth episode in the long run of a career that has perhaps not yet bestowed all the arrangements it deserves.</span></span>\n\n<span><span>In the new album, Singer plays your tunes with a patina slightly theatrical, conveyed by the dozen musicians who have participated, bringing a kaleidoscope of solutions whose latent baroque is instead contained within expressive canons mainly simple and direct. </span></span>\n<span><span>then, keeping a spirit mild and dreamy psychedelic light years away from the escape (!) and allowing himself just a few more pompous digression in a transfigured by musical key, multi-instrumentalist originally from Portland at the core of \"Arc Iris\" compositions on the piano, from time to time left unadorned and lonely, as in the brief prelude usual, form the basis of ballads in dim light (\"Nine Ten\", \"Forever Blossoming\") or - more often - placed at the head of vibrant polyphony for chorus and orchestra, made ​​by rhythmic thumping oblique (\"O Endless Storm\") and vibrant progressions (\"Appear And Disappear\").</span></span>\n\n<span><span>The centerpiece of \"Arc Iris\" beyond the measured complexity of his orchestrations, however, remains the melodic sensibility of Singer, the author of the brilliant arranger capable of forming fine piano scores, which would be a shame to confine, in the perception of the disc, to simple instrumental interludes or pauses for breath between its steepest orchestral constructions.</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Although the latter inevitably more easily capture the attention, expertise instrumental and expressive spontaneity of falsetto Singer leads us to favor, in its artistic arrangement, the components of songwriting conformity with those of more or less baroque chamber music, which still contribute to trace the outline of a refined, modern artist, perhaps, this should be considered not so far from those enjoyed by, for example, </span></span><span><span>Sufjan Stevens</span></span><span><span> and </span></span><span><span>Patrick Watson</span></span><span><span> .\"</span></span>\n\n- <a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2013/08/14/liam-singer-arc-iris/\" target=\"_blank\">Music Won\'t Save You</a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed in Music Won&#039;t Save You','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-in-music-wont-save-you','','','2013-08-30 03:08:40','2013-08-30 03:08:40','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6874',0,'post','',0),(6876,1,'2013-08-30 05:00:31','2013-08-30 05:00:31','Jumpel\'s sublime new album <a title=\"Jumpel - \'Bloc4\'\" href=\"http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2\"><em>Bloc4</em></a> has just scooped a glowing review in the excellent Igloo Magazine. Here\'s a taste,\n\n<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Bloc4\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/Bloc4.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /><em>\"The aesthetic conjunction linking fragility, abstraction and poetical expression is perfectly programmed and transport the listener into melodious-chantlike world of sounds. The expressive and acoustic qualities of Chole March’s very own experiments and personal poetry resonates intimately with Joe Dürbeck’s immersive and powerful electronic fragments to a create a very sensuous experience.\"</em> - <a title=\"Igloo Magazine\" href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/jumpel-bloc4-hidden-shoal\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Igloo Magazine</strong></a>\n\nRead the whole review <a title=\"Igloo Magazine\" href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/jumpel-bloc4-hidden-shoal\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> and stream and purchase the album (CD + MP3 + FLAC) <a title=\"Jumpel - \'Bloc4\'\" href=\"http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/jumpel-blue-ceiling[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Jumpel - \'Blue Ceiling\'</strong>','Stunning Review for Jumpel&#039;s &quot;Bloc4&quot; in Igloo Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','stunning-review-for-jumpels-bloc4-in-igloo-magazine','','','2013-08-30 05:00:31','2013-08-30 05:00:31','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6876',0,'post','',0),(6884,1,'2013-08-30 05:16:48','2013-08-30 05:16:48','\"Since 2006, Hidden Shoal Recordings has made a name in the development and diffusion of some of the most remarkable essays in the unique musical universe of shoegazing dream-pop ambient, swirling soundtracky electronic navigation and chamber-rock evocativeness. An obvious reference in the world of contemporary and innovative electronic music. Each release is meticulously conceived and the music always reveals challenging moments and moving sonic sound capacities, all of this in a deliciously and constant emotional, brooding sensitive shape. <strong>Bloc4</strong> comes from the reunion or artistic meeting between two original musical personalities: Joe Dürbeck and Chloe March. Dürbeck formed Jumpel in 2005 for a series of eloquent and dreamily enthusiastic digitized electronic opus. He firstly made a reputation with his band Bones which musically admits a curious and dynamic mix of indie pop-rockin elements based on standardized compositional schemas. Next to numerous gigs and with one member of Bones Joe Dürbeck founded his own company devoted to music for films. Chloe March who was firstly invited to play on the last Dürbeck’s album is a multifaceted artist, singer and piano player. Her musical range oscillates between intimate dream-pop ambient realm and glitch-out electro pop sustained by a delicately introspective acoustic orchestration.\n\nDelivered as the new Jumpel, <strong>Bloc4</strong> is the result of a rare musical complicity between the two artists. It reveals a wonderful journey between emotionally intense dreamscapes and a magically colorful sonic sounding palette. The conceptual background leads us to a creative sync between spatial relations (inside the urbanistic functional-panoptical post-human context) and our own understanding about man lonely-isolated state. The sonorous environment or soundscaping architecture delivers a surprising dialectic between a qualitative sense of awareness and representational figure of close / open communications. The aesthetic conjunction linking fragility, abstraction and poetical expression is perfectly programmed and transport the listener into melodious-chantlike world of sounds. The expressive and acoustic qualities of Chole March’s very own experiments and personal poetry resonates intimately with Joe Dürbeck’s immersive and powerful electronic fragments to a create a very sensuous experience.\n\nQualitatively spacious, electronically dense, cinematically enthralling and calmly floating this album is a welcomed recommendation for daydream and reflective state lived inside a “sentimental reconstruction.”\n\n- <a title=\"Igloo Magazine\" href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/jumpel-bloc4-hidden-shoal\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Igloo Magazine</strong></a>','Jumpel &quot;Bloc4&quot; Reviewed at Igloo Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','jumpel-bloc4-reviewed-at-igloo-magazine','','','2013-08-30 05:16:48','2013-08-30 05:16:48','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6884',0,'post','',0),(6891,1,'2013-09-05 01:30:30','2013-09-05 01:30:30','<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','','publish','closed','open','','stunning-new-single-from-kramies-forthcoming-ep-free-download','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6891',0,'post','',0),(7078,1,'2013-09-06 06:42:40','2013-09-06 06:42:40','<img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9100\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Perth_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"perth\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the signing of Australian outfit <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a>. \'drank and kites and tomorrow\', the first single to be taken from their forthcoming album <em>what\'s your utopia?</em>, will be available for free download on 26 September, followed by the album release on 14 November.\r\n\r\nShifting effortlessly between psychedelic pop, folk-laced electronica and shoegaze, <em>what\'s your utopia?</em> manages to meld these disparate genres into a beautifully cohesive statement. Comprising three members of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/apricot-rail/\" target=\"_blank\">Apricot Rail</a> (Matthew Saville, Justin Manzano and Jack Quirk) plus songwriter Michael Dolan, perth have a unique magic that stems from their ability to refract the individual members\' unique sensibilities through an experimental lens. The follow-up to their acclaimed 2012 album <em>Babes, Water, Waves</em>, <em>what\'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 band member Justin Manzano before being mastered by Simon Struthers (Mukaizake, Umpire) of Forensic Audio.\r\n\r\nAnd if that wasn\'t enough excitement for one day, on Saturday 7 December, Perth play the Slanted and Enchanted festival in Perth (!), alongside artists as diverse and wonderful as Deerhunter, Jon Hopkins and Cave. More info on Slanted and Enchanted at <a title=\"Life is Noise\" href=\"http://lifeisnoise.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Life is Noise</a>.','perth sign to Hidden Shoal, new album out in November!','','publish','closed','open','','perth-sign-to-hidden-shoal-new-album-out-in-november','','','2016-02-03 16:06:15','2016-02-03 08:06:15','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7078',0,'post','',0),(7105,1,'2013-09-10 02:33:32','2013-09-10 02:33:32','The wonderful Arizona based college radio station KBRP can\'t get enough Hidden Shoal at the moment. We now currently have four releases in their Top 30 chart!\n\n16. <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\">Liam Singer - <em>Arc Iris</em></a>\n18. <a href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\">Todd Tobias, Robert Pollard, Circus Devils - <em>I Razor</em></a>\n26. <a href=\"http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2\">Jumpel - \"Bloc4\"</a>\n30. <a href=\"http://tangled-star.bandcamp.com/album/lets-adjourn-to-the-garden\">Tangled Star - <em>Let\'s Adjourn To The Garden</em></a>\n\nNice!','Four Hidden Shoal releases in the KBRP top 30!!! ','','publish','closed','open','','four-hidden-shoal-releases-in-the-kbrp-top-30','','','2016-02-03 16:39:54','2016-02-03 08:39:54','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7105',0,'post','',0),(7109,1,'2013-09-10 07:15:52','2013-09-10 07:15:52','\"This “double album” from Half Film isn’t exactly new music – the trio found themselves caught up in the slowcore scene of the late-‘90s, and after bringing out <em>East Of Monument</em> in 1998 and <em>The Road To The Crater</em> in 1999, they called it a day. Hidden Shoal Recordings have taken it upon themselves to put both albums out, and it’s a gem of slow-burning, understated atmosphere.\n<div itemprop=\"reviewBody\">\n\n<em>East Of Monument</em>’s eight tracks all run into each other with slight sonic variations of tone and cadence yet all set on the same steady keel. There’s no ebb and flow here; from the brooding <em>Weather Patterns</em> to the ambling undulations of <em>Beaten By A Landslide</em>, the songs invariably remain the same. Even when they break from tradition, they don’t – <em>The Arrangement</em> holds a candle to Slint, albeit without the cathartic violent release, whilst <em>Sortition</em> threatens the quiet/loud dynamic of post-rock to no avail. Yet despite the repetition, the inherent melody is held throughout, a muted nuance held further aloft by guitarist Conor Devlin’s hushed vocals.\n\n<em>The Road To The Crater</em> doesn’t really break from this formula, instead infusing each song with a stronger personality to stand on their own two feet whilst still intrinsically linked to each other as a whole. The soaring twang of the guitar on <em>Stepless</em>,<em> </em>the slight harmonies of <em>The Mother Of All Distance</em> and the insistent bass underlying <em>Birchwood</em> all add warmth not felt before. And in <em>Machines, Hawks And The Perfect Equation</em>, they’ve crafted a song that rivals anything that Low or Codeine were doing at the same time. A missed gem to be savoured.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://themusic.com.au/reviews/album/2013/01/17/half-film-east-of-monument-the-road-to-the-crater/\">The Music</a>\n\n</div>','Half Film &quot;East Of Monument/The Road To The Crater&quot; Reviewed at The Music','','publish','closed','open','','half-film-east-of-monumentthe-road-to-the-crater-reviewed-at-the-music','','','2013-09-10 07:15:52','2013-09-10 07:15:52','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7109',0,'post','',0),(7112,1,'2013-09-10 07:31:33','2013-09-10 07:31:33','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Gilded\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gilded.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"119\" />Fantastic news for Perth experimental sound sculptors <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/gilded/\">Gilded</a> as they have had not one, but two of their tracks nominated for a WAMI Song of the Year Award in the experimental category. The two nominated tracks are \'Velar\' and \'Road Movie\', taken off their stunning debut <em><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\">Terrane</a>.</em> Check out more details over at <a href=\"http://www.wam.asn.au/Events/WAMSongoftheYear/tabid/75/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">WAM</a>.','Two Gilded Songs Nominated For WAMI Experimental Song of the Year!','','publish','closed','open','','two-gilded-songs-nominated-for-wami-experimental-song-of-the-year','','','2016-02-03 15:37:51','2016-02-03 07:37:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7112',0,'post','',0),(7115,1,'2013-09-10 07:53:35','2013-09-10 07:53:35','\"Necks fans newly bereaved of their titanic attention spans will gleefully gravitate to this duo’s carefully crafted set of glazed and glacial miniatures, emigrants of Australian shores farthest from Sydney’s celebrated slow jazz trio. Nourished on a diet of Kranky, Rachels and their ilk, and mastered by arch-abstractionist Taylor Deupree, <strong>Gilded</strong>’s <em>Terrane</em> slowly sublimates sombre scenery into a subtle, hypnotic ambience (in the Brian Eno sense) devoid of excess emotion: its virtue lies in the vagueness of background music one doesn’t just filter out, but which adds warmth to any given scene.\n\nEverywhere to be found is patient, rhythmic gradation: the accretion of new textural layers so subtle as to be almost imperceptible; so resonant as to be hypnotic; nature’s own lullabies celebrating botanical infancy. A sense of stillness-in-motion is evident throughout: in ‘Velar’ and ‘Cluttered Room’, skittering cymbal phrases assume a respiratory regularity, grounded by dazed and distant reverb, and gently tinkling waterfalls. A relative of Harold Budd’s plangent piano playing pops up here and periodically there: soft, sombre droplets prickling the still white surface of serenity, summoning up seasonal slowdown. Sun-drenched, freshly clipped lawns or the same spot bedded down with 6am snow.\n\nDrama takes place behind doors closed underwater: in ‘Road Movie’ we encounter Raime’s painfully paced ‘Soil &amp; Colts’ reborn as a carefree, countryside stroll – the former’s signature screech supplanted by a blasé banjo strum. The landscape remains but urgency increases as a cantering piano enters in ‘Tyne’, which subsides into a vinyl crackle as the bucolic drift resumes. Tightly bowed, clipped strings sing of serrated leaves of grass blown by gliding strings, finally submitting to a sedative haze heard through a morphine daze; subatomic magnifications of the millions of vibrations that constitute a single draw of the bow: a manner almost acousmatic in its interiority.\n\nGilded’s taste for variety is subtle but immanent: every track foregrounds a specific motif, pearling it patiently within the oyster. No attempt is made to stimulate the listener: attention is expected but not demanded, though it is certainly rewarded. Alternating appetites for activity and passivity provide the overarching structure.\n\nIf existence arises from the tension between opposing forces, then <em>Terrane</em>’s terrain is the unconscious realm behind the eyelids as they open and close. Even the album cover – a dense stratum of branches – gauzy and vascular: a detail of the network that delivers the essence of life itself. The image draws breath as freely as the music, driven but unperturbed by conscious motives. Tracks are generically titled after generalised objects and locations; the music illustrates natural processes common to both the body’s inner world and that of the organic world it inhabits. If you’ve nowhere you particularly need to be, then Gilded will show you there.\"\n\n- <strong><a href=\"http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2013/09/02/gilded-music-for-respiration/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sound Projector</a></strong>','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; Reviewed at The Sound Projector','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terran-reviewed-at-the-sound-projector','','','2013-09-10 07:53:35','2013-09-10 07:53:35','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7115',0,'post','',0),(7121,1,'2013-09-10 08:10:42','2013-09-10 08:10:42','\"<em>Laterna Magica</em> is the fifth album by the Spokane, Washington-based guitarist and synth expert <strong>Drew Sullivan</strong> aka <strong>Slow Dancing Society</strong>, released in September 2012 on <strong>Hidden Shoal Recordings</strong> and comprising ten polyvalent Ambient compositions. It can be fully streamed and purchased at Bandcamp. Ennobled by guitars, glockenspiels and a piano, the dense synth cavalcades of <em>Laterna Magica</em> are miraculous entities whose true complexion not only depends on the interpretation of the listener, but the amount of light that is aurally emanated from the titular lantern which is actually a nod to the eponymous image projector of the 17th century. Light is usually seen as positive and, well, enlightening, but Sullivan’s album is his most ophidian and eclectic one to date, even though the camouflaging fogginess and thermal silkiness might suggest otherwise. From the outset, it is a welcome choice that Sullivan revisits the concept of light after such a comparably short time frame, for his album <em>Under The Sodium Lights</em> (2010) sported a similar viewpoint. On <em>Laterna Magica</em>, however, the light of this aural lantern is a diffuse one, a transfiguring incandescence whose effulgence excludes clefts, bumps and interstices of the objects it illumines or projects onto the wall. The adjacent retro synths and dark matter pads do neither depend on this source of light, nor are they influenced by it, and so a dichotomous interplay builds up which is as enchanting as it is exciting and, as it turns out in the end, incomprehensible, a bewildering state which I try to carve out in greater detail below. How enmeshed are light and darkness, in which ways does Slow Dancing Society inject the magnanimous amounts of rapture and joy that traverse each of his works, and how does one cope with the New Age-colored mysticism of that magic artifact? Almost a year after the initial release, I am willed to jot down my observations. Since <em>Laterna Magica</em> is a concept album, these questions are important, and answering them is as momentous as it is prone to failure. Since this is only the beginning of my review, the impetus of that very failure can only grow. Let’s hope the light of <em>Laterna Magica</em> lessens this notion.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>After The Twilight Takes Us</em> opens the album in a dubious way, at least when one considers its title: does it carry relief or portent? It is consoling that the journey is not taken alone. The slow and soft fade-in phase may be dreamy and comprising of gunmetal fog banks, but cannot annihilate all cloudy thoughts. These gaseous ameliorations seem to be the glowing light sources of the track and waft around pristine piano prongs, screeching synth strings and abyssal bass aortas, the latter of which slide into shadier tone sequences which unchain darker contraventions. However, as the twilight state progresses, the gelid mélange of aeriform drones offers anything but contentment and contemplation. Follow-up <em>Bones &amp; Ice (Summer Trees Turn)</em> remains hued in twilight, Sullivan’s <em>Priest Lake Circa ’88</em> (2008) is surprisingly far away despite the titular allusions of loftiness and verdure. This composition, however, is loaded with ashen synth aortas, glistening glockenspiels, coruscating chimes and the occasional appearance of bucolic bonfire guitars. There <em>is</em> warmth all over this piece, but it has to shimmer through a dense legato thicket of the archetypical New Age timbre, an impression which is especially applicable in the first half with its moist-wooden clicks, star dust glitters and twirling gusts.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDuring the following <em>A Few Moments</em>, Slow Dancing Society even amplifies the nod to the Age of Aquarius by placing aqueous vesicles in-between crystalline specters, four-note guitar scents and piano sparks. The synth washes in the background and the reverberations of the bubbling bits work in tandem and create an antrum whose wideness and plasticity lead back to the album title: it is lit with magic and functions as a peaceful sanctuary whose mood is hard to pinpoint. <em>Gardens &amp; Graves</em> could have potentially been a similarly dualistic track, were it not for the vigorous and prominently placed guitar-and-piano protrusions which reign in front of a cosmic square lead flute and hammering synthetic bassline. But even when these devices are mute, the grey airflows feel organic and joyful. The track title makes the comparison to <strong>Chihei Hatakeyama</strong>’s <em>Ghostly Garden</em> (2010) an all too easy one, but it is true, Sullivan’s haze is similarly structured and, most importantly, alluvial. Next is the most progressive polyhedron piece of tonal cinematography: <em>I’ll Leave A Light On</em>. It appears in a shapeshifting gestalt; from forsaken piano chords and bass-accentuated rufescent lute helixes over a 4/4 bassline-underpinned ophidian dark matter travelog to a true-bred Space Ambient conclusion with glistening polar light particles and nectarian nebulae, <em>I’ll Leave A Light On</em> is a murky, constantly pressing piece and a melodramatic counterpoint to the album’s endemic ambience.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAfter the daemoniac glow, <em>I’ll See You In Time</em> returns to the vitreous-diffuse panorama Drew Sullivan is known for. After a semi-glitchy anacrusis of sparkling screeches and incisive scintillae, a purified guitar aorta is embedded in majestic synth strings which oscillate between a camouflaged diffusion and a glazed translucence. Eminently opalescent and even euphoric, this is a piece that bathes, drowns and then submerges into sumptuous solemnity. While <em>Pieces Of Your Presence</em> is a comparably short interlude supercharged with rotor-esque bit-crushed staccato flecks, liquedous synth afterglows, gorgeous six-note cascades and lacunar cusps, <em>A Slow Parade Of Wind</em> returns to a warm mirage of rural fluxions, runlets of synth strings as well as guitar twangs, twinkling glockenspiels and high piano tones. The wind which is evoked in the title is nowhere to be heard, its omission hence transforms <em>A Slow Parade Of Wind</em> into a beautifully beatific piece. The lantern truly shines – or projects – all the more in there, but continues to fathom out contrastive turbulences in the penultimate <em>There’s A Place For Us</em> which kicks off with emaciated shakers and clicks in front of a pitch-black pith of nonentity. This darkness is soon enough lit by galactic gongs and pulsating bleeps. Once the wadded synth underbrushes continue to grow, so does the New Age factor. The track remains highly interesting though, for it is the only piece where Slow Dancing Society truly worships the darker backgrounds, the interplanetary interstices and echoey vestibules. The consolatory <em>Tomorrow’s Another Day</em> is the Glitch-bred Ambient apotheosis to <em>Laterna Magica</em> and once more stresses the unlit, gloomier surfaces. Eldritch strings coalesce with more hopeful upheavals and delicately liquid guitar licks, but no can do, the album ends on an oddly incoherent note and remains in a purposefully unresolved state which is only tolerable by the look <em>at</em> the last track title… and <em>into</em> the magic lantern.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThere is one particularly interesting bit of aestheticism that is maintained stringently and throughout <em>Laterna Magica</em>, making its omnipresence a potent potion: the dreamlike aura. Whether a state of bliss is constructed or the movements of a crepuscular galanty show are resurrected, the interplay – and interdependence – between light and darkness feels apocryphal and unreal. Whereas <em>Priest Lake Circa ’88</em> and <em>Under The Sodium Lights</em> depicted their respective mood ranges in an authentic way, Sullivan’s intrinsic lantern spends a jinxed light and projects false images which only obscure the peripheries of one’s vision further, letting the dark backgrounds appear more grim and indifferent than they probably are. This duality is either grafted onto tracks like <em>Bones &amp; Ice (Summer Trees Turn)</em>, is boosted via the impression of completely euphonious tracks à la <em>I’ll See You In Time</em> or their exclusively arcane antagonists such as <em>I’ll Leave A Light On</em>. It always depends on a listener what he or she takes away from an album, but I feel that <em>Laterna Magica</em> is particularly double-edged and enigmatic in its aural narrative, and that includes the conclusion. To make matters even more interesting, the clash of the analogue warmth with the hibernal hedges and galactic gales does not manifest itself into a graspable entity or <em>item</em>. Everything remains dusky and in an eternal twilight. The closing vignette shows this in a particularly revealing way by staving the listening subject off with another day, whereas the arrangement leaves the subject hanging. We are willed to find a conclusive pattern in Ambient albums – unlike in, say, Eurodance tomfooleries –, and once the conclusion does not reveal itself to us <em>despite</em> the stringency, coherence and cohesion which Slow Dancing Society’s material is known for, then the album title is indeed wisely chosen and lives up more than enough to the physical boundaries of the material. As I tend to say: I know that I have a great work in front of me when I cannot pinpoint its mood, let alone unchain the prerogative of interpretation. There is none to be had. This is the power of <em>Laterna Magica</em>.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.ambientexotica.com/ambrev255_slowdancingsociety/\" target=\"_blank\">Ambient Exotica</a>','Slow Dancing Society &quot;Laterna Magica&quot; Reviewed at Ambient Exotica','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica-reviewed-at-ambient-exotica','','','2013-09-10 08:10:42','2013-09-10 08:10:42','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7121',0,'post','',0),(7125,1,'2013-09-12 01:58:12','2013-09-12 01:58:12','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Apricot Rail - Dore Strauch\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/dore_MED.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />We\'re excited to send you the new freely downloadable single and music video from Australian majestic pop instrumentalists Apricot Rail. Taken from their latest album <em>Quarrels </em>(mixed by Scott Solter), \'Dore Strauch\' is an incandescently beautiful track, featuring cascading glockenspiels, haunting guitar arpeggios and rhythmic eddies, stirred into confluence by gorgeous updrifts of woodwind melody. The accompanying video directed by Jules Gay and shot in various locations in Germany, including Berlin depicts a young woman\'s hallucinogenic journey through both forest and city, through colour and monochrome, between memory and the now. This music transcends fads and trends to appeal to anyone drawn to beautiful, supple songcraft.\n\nYou can download the track <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/dore-strauch\">here</a>, check out the stunning album this track is cut from <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\" target=\"_self\">here</a>, read a full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Apricot_Rail-Dore_Strauch.pdf\" target=\"_self\">here</a> and check out the video at <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/74187389\" target=\"_self\">Vimeo</a> and <a href=\"http://youtu.be/VeTN3QNo2Ck\" target=\"_self\">Youtube.</a>\n\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/VeTN3QNo2Ck\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/apricot-rail-dore-strauch[/soundcloud]','New Apricot Rail Video + Single','','publish','closed','open','','new-apricot-rail-video-single','','','2016-02-03 13:43:07','2016-02-03 05:43:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7125',0,'post','',0),(7136,1,'2013-09-18 13:47:30','2013-09-18 13:47:30','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/irazor.jpg\" alt=\"I Razor\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />We\'re excited to present another wild and wonderful cut from from <a title=\"I Razor\" href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\"><em>I Razor</em></a>, the no-budget experimental feature film directed by <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a>. Both tracks in this clip, \'March of the Homunculus\' and \'Star-Peppered Wheat Germ\', are available on the brilliant recently released <em>I Razor</em> soundtrack album out through Hidden Shoal. The soundtrack comprises work by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Circus Devils\' existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/bKuDuZ9r4jE?rel=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>I Razor - \'March of the Homunculus/Star-Peppered Wheat Germ\'</strong>','New Video Clip from \"I Razor\" (Feat. Robert Pollard, Circus Devils and Todd Tobias)','','publish','closed','open','','new-video-clip-from-i-razor-feat-robert-pollard-circus-devils-and-todd-tobias','','','2016-02-03 16:48:38','2016-02-03 08:48:38','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7136',0,'post','',0),(10216,1,'2014-08-08 02:42:20','2014-08-08 02:42:20','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/irazor.jpg\" alt=\"I Razor\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />We\'re excited to present another wild and wonderful cut from from <a title=\"I Razor\" href=\"http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor\"><em>I Razor</em></a>, the no-budget experimental feature film directed by <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a>. Both tracks in this clip, \'March of the Homunculus\' and \'Star-Peppered Wheat Germ\', are available on the brilliant recently released <em>I Razor</em> soundtrack album out through Hidden Shoal. The soundtrack comprises work by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Circus Devils\' existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/bKuDuZ9r4jE?rel=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>I Razor - \'March of the Homunculus/Star-Peppered Wheat Germ\'</strong>','New Video Clip from &quot;I Razor&quot; (Feat. Robert Pollard, Circus Devils and Todd Tobias)','','inherit','closed','closed','','7136-revision-v1','','','2014-08-08 02:42:20','2014-08-08 02:42:20','',7136,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/7136-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(7148,1,'2013-09-19 07:13:47','2013-09-19 07:13:47','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Markus Mehr\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Markus_Mehr_61-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Sonic wunderkind Markus Mehr has an exciting rest-of-2013 ahead of him. Earlier this month, the video for <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/49295610\">Duck Become Swan</a> from the 2012 album <a title=\"Markus Mehr - On\" href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\"><em>On</em></a> competed as part of the official selection at the 19th l’Etrange Short Film Festival in Paris.\n\nOn September 21, Mehr’s audiovisual installation with Stefanie Sixt, titled Sublimit(y) Water, will show at the <a href=\"http://www.kunstparcours-augsburg.de/\">Artparcours Festival</a> in Augsburg. The artwork utilises abstracted footage and sound recordings of nearby water bodies and seeks recontextualise the Western world’s approach to water consumption and wastage.\n\nMehr and Sixt will also be performing their audiovisual piece <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/57922506\">B C H I J</a>, an examination and exploration of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. Those performances will happen in Berlin on October 24 and at the Dok Festival in Kassel on November 16.\n\nThe performances for <a href=\"http://www.wunderderpraerie.de/2013/first-life-ein-melodram\">First Live</a>, a play for which Mehr contributed music, will take place on September 20 and 22 at Festival Center in Mannheim and January 17 and 18 at the Pumpenhouse in Münster.\n\nFinally, a reminder that Mehr’s fantastic new live album <em>Live In Bari</em> is available for free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bari\">Bandcamp</a>.\n\n<b>Markus Mehr Performances &amp; Installations</b>\n\nSeptember 20 - Mannheim, Festivalzentrum (w/ First Live, Theater Performance)\nSeptembe 22 - Mannheim, Festivalzentrum (w/ First Live)\nOctober 24 - Berlin, Ausland (w/ B/C/H/I/J)\nNovember 16 - Kassel, DokFestival (w/ B/C/H/I/J)\nJanuary 17-18, 2014 - Münster, Pumpenhaus (w/ First Life)\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-live-in-bari[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Markus Mehr - \"Live In Bari\"</strong>','New Shows + More From Markus Mehr','','publish','closed','open','','new-shows-more-from-markus-mehr','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7148',0,'post','',0),(7153,1,'2013-09-19 07:33:32','2013-09-19 07:33:32','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Liam Singer - Arc Iris\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/arciris.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /><a title=\"Liam Singer\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Liam Singer</a>\'s sublime new album <a title=\"Arc Iris\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a> continue to receive glowing international praise. You read the latest bit of praise over at the blog for the wonderful Irish radio show <a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.ie/2013/09/liam-singer-arc-iris-hidden-shoal.html\">The Underground of Happiness</a>. Read the whole thing <a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.ie/2013/09/liam-singer-arc-iris-hidden-shoal.html\">here</a> and check out a snippet below,\n\n<em>\"The songs unfold themselves in no verse and chorus format but as miniature symphonic movements, driven by one main piano or keyboard generally, with key and stunning second-vocal contributions from <b>Wendy Allen</b> of <b>Hidden Shoal </b>labelmates <b>Boxharp</b>. And once more, her Boxharp partner <b>Scott Solter </b>produces, providing an intriguing sound bed for these off-kilter pop creations. The album overall portrays a kind of rarefied, heightened atmosphere, as with Dislocatia the distinct sense of deeply felt, autobiographical stories. Not that there’s ever any hint of self-indulgence, but any danger of that is dispelled anyway by the constantly questing arrangements.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.ie/2013/09/liam-singer-arc-iris-hidden-shoal.html\"><strong>The Underground of Happiness</strong></a>\n\nThe album has also just recently hit the number 3 spot on the KBRP Top 30 CMJ chart as it continues to chart and get airplay across the US college radio circuit.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-stranger-i-know[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Liam Singer - \'Stranger I Know\'</strong>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Review and Radio Charting','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-review-and-radio-charting','','','2014-08-01 02:30:09','2014-08-01 02:30:09','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7153',0,'post','',0),(7158,1,'2013-09-19 07:37:18','2013-09-19 07:37:18','\"I was a huge fan of <b>Liam Singer’s </b>last album, <i>Dislocatia</i> from 2010 (you can find an interview from around that time with Liam in a piece <a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.ie/2011/07/liam-singer-interview.html\">here </a>which includes a review of the album). It was an album of chamber pop that managed to be both delicate and thrilling at the same time. A good trick that, one you might associate with The Beach Boys for example. For this album, Singer has extended his range to create an even headier brand of dreamy, cosmic pop while retaining the classical shapes that add such emotional heft.\n\nThe songs unfold themselves in no verse and chorus format but as miniature symphonic movements, driven by one main piano or keyboard generally, with key and stunning second-vocal contributions from <b>Wendy Allen</b> of <b>Hidden Shoal </b>labelmates <b>Boxharp</b>. And once more, her Boxharp partner <b>Scott Solter </b>produces, providing an intriguing sound bed for these off-kilter pop creations. The album overall portrays a kind of rarefied, heightened atmosphere, as with <i>Dislocatia</i> the distinct sense of deeply felt, autobiographical stories. Not that there’s ever any hint of self-indulgence, but any danger of that is dispelled anyway by the constantly questing arrangements. The first single ‘Stranger I know’ shows this from the start with its dancing piano and wonderfully wrongfooting mid-section rhythm.\n\n‘O Endless Storm’ has a shade of Michael Nyman’s early Peter Greenaway soundtracks in the brilliant combination of flute and a floor tom layered with a tattoo of handclap percussion. The sumptuous instrumental piano and cello interlude that follows, ‘The dance of Cupid &amp; Psyche’, showcases Singer’s own claims to soundtrack majesty.\n\n‘Dear sister/Gears turn in gears’ contains many memorable elements in its family psychodrama, of which maybe the most memorable is Allen’s haunting, wordless vocal, swooping its way over Singer’s restless keychanges like a seagull sailing on the wind. ‘Forever blossoming’ provides another Allen vocal highlight, when an irresistible piano run and heartwrenching melody are completed by a brilliantly light and airy folk lilt.\n\nFrom the second half of the album, the gorgeous up-and-down organ figure of ‘Unhand me (You horrid thing)’ stands out, simulating the giddy movement of a fairground carousel, and like that, both pleasing and disorientating, in line with the ambiguous sentiment of the lyrics.\n\nNear the end, ‘Coma Nocturne’ has the feel of an Italian folk tune about it, a bittersweet waltz of piano and mandolin, an arm around the shoulder to raise the spirits.\n\nThis is an album of story songs circling around themes of family and relationships. For these subjects, chamber pop might be the perfect vehicle, having both the intimacy and the emotional sweep to carry off the themes. And they are sad, uplifting tunes. Chamber pop is a lonely enough furrow to be ploughing in the world we live in, I often think. It’s consoling to know that an artist of Singer’s restless talent continues to make a mission out of charting a kind of Venn diagram between classical, folk and pop musics. This is another marvellous album in that ongoing project.\"\n\n- <a href=\"I was a huge fan of Liam Singer’s last album, Dislocatia from 2010 (you can find an interview from around that time with Liam in a piece here which includes a review of the album). It was an album of chamber pop that managed to be both delicate and thrilling at the same time. A good trick that, one you might associate with The Beach Boys for example. For this album, Singer has extended his range to create an even headier brand of dreamy, cosmic pop while retaining the classical shapes that add such emotional heft.  The songs unfold themselves in no verse and chorus format but as miniature symphonic movements, driven by one main piano or keyboard generally, with key and stunning second-vocal contributions from Wendy Allen of Hidden Shoal labelmates Boxharp. And once more, her Boxharp partner Scott Solter produces, providing an intriguing sound bed for these off-kilter pop creations. The album overall portrays a kind of rarefied, heightened atmosphere, as with Dislocatia the distinct sense of deeply felt, autobiographical stories. Not that there’s ever any hint of self-indulgence, but any danger of that is dispelled anyway by the constantly questing arrangements. The first single ‘Stranger I know’ shows this from the start with its dancing piano and wonderfully wrongfooting mid-section rhythm.  ‘O Endless Storm’ has a shade of Michael Nyman’s early Peter Greenaway soundtracks in the brilliant combination of flute and a floor tom layered with a tattoo of handclap percussion. The sumptuous instrumental piano and cello interlude that follows, ‘The dance of Cupid &amp; Psyche’, showcases Singer’s own claims to soundtrack majesty.  ‘Dear sister/Gears turn in gears’ contains many memorable elements in its family psychodrama, of which maybe the most memorable is Allen’s haunting, wordless vocal, swooping its way over Singer’s restless keychanges like a seagull sailing on the wind. ‘Forever blossoming’ provides another Allen vocal highlight, when an irresistible piano run and heartwrenching melody are completed by a brilliantly light and airy folk lilt.  From the second half of the album, the gorgeous up-and-down organ figure of ‘Unhand me (You horrid thing)’ stands out, simulating the giddy movement of a fairground carousel, and like that, both pleasing and disorientating, in line with the ambiguous sentiment of the lyrics.  Near the end, ‘Coma Nocturne’ has the feel of an Italian folk tune about it, a bittersweet waltz of piano and mandolin, an arm around the shoulder to raise the spirits.  This is an album of story songs circling around themes of family and relationships. For these subjects, chamber pop might be the perfect vehicle, having both the intimacy and the emotional sweep to carry off the themes. And they are sad, uplifting tunes. Chamber pop is a lonely enough furrow to be ploughing in the world we live in, I often think. It’s consoling to know that an artist of Singer’s restless talent continues to make a mission out of charting a kind of Venn diagram between classical, folk and pop musics. This is another marvellous album in that ongoing project. http://\"><strong>The Underground of Happiness</strong></a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed at The Underground of Happiness','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-at-the-underground-of-happiness','','','2013-09-19 07:37:18','2013-09-19 07:37:18','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7158',0,'post','',0),(7161,1,'2013-09-24 08:54:17','2013-09-24 08:54:17','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Arc Iris\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/arciris.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />German magazine <a title=\"Jazzthetic\" href=\"http://www.jazzthetik.de/\" target=\"_blank\">Jazzthetic</a> recently reviewed Liam Singer\'s stunning <a title=\"Arc Iris\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\">Arc Iris</a> and gave it a 5/5! Check out the review translation here,\n\n<em>\"The record label names  Rachel\'s, Satie, Sufjan Stevens, Elliot Smith and John Adams as references for the fourth album, Arc Iris, from Queens dwelling  artist Liam Singer,  but that only half fills the picture. One can\'t help but throw in a few more Big Pop comparisons: Beach Boys, Jesus Couldn\'t Drum, and yeah, Badly Drawn Boy. Singer is a pop aficionado with experimental heart. Pieces like \"the Astronaut\" make you wish you\'d see them mounted on the stage like a musical with a choir, orchestra, potpourri, and playfulness. A lot of puerility, a field full of flowers, a sky full of violins. Wonderful, bacchanalian, multi-instrumental, experimentally friendly pop. Glorious.\"</em> - <strong>Jazzthetic</strong>\n\nCheck out <em>Arc Iris</em> <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">here</a> along with freely downloadable singles \'Stranger I Know\' and \'Nine Ten\'.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-nine-ten[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Liam Singer - \'Nine Ten\'</strong>','Liam Singer&#039;s &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Scoops a 5/5 at Jazzthetic','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singers-arc-iris-scoops-a-55-at-jazzthetic','','','2014-08-01 02:30:09','2014-08-01 02:30:09','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7161',0,'post','',0),(7164,1,'2013-09-24 08:57:14','2013-09-24 08:57:14','<em>\"The record label names  Rachel\'s, Satie, Sufjan Stevens, Elliot Smith and John Adams as references for the fourth album, Arc Iris, from Queens dwelling  artist Liam Singer,  but that only half fills the picture. One can\'t help but throw in a few more Big Pop comparisons: Beach Boys, Jesus Couldn\'t Drum, and yeah, Badly Drawn Boy. Singer is a pop aficionado with experimental heart. Pieces like \"the Astronaut\" make you wish you\'d see them mounted on the stage like a musical with a choir, orchestra, potpourri, and playfulness. A lot of puerility, a field full of flowers, a sky full of violins. Wonderful, bacchanalian, multi-instrumental, experimentally friendly pop. Glorious.\"</em>\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.jazzthetik.de/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jazzthetic</strong></a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed in Jazzthetic','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-in-jazzthetic','','','2013-09-24 08:57:14','2013-09-24 08:57:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7164',0,'post','',0),(7167,1,'2013-09-26 03:05:13','2013-09-26 03:05:13','<a href=\"https://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"perth - \'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/drank_LRG.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"171\" /></a>We\'re super excited to announce  the release of the fantastic new single \'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\' from Australian experimental popsters <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\" target=\"_self\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a>. The track is lifted from their highly anticipated sophomore album <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em> out November 14th through Hidden Shoal. Download the single now at the <a href=\"https://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and via <a href=\"https://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp</a> or stream it over at <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-drank-and-kites-and\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud</a>.\n\nThere’s a triumphant yet subtle majesty to ‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow’ as the track summons forth glowing brass arrangements, reverb-drenched vocals and skittering breakbeats crafted from found sounds. What begins as an addictive dream-pop tune with a wonderfully bucolic atmosphere builds into a krautrock jam reminiscent of Neu! and Caribou if they’d used ocarina and Casiotone. This opening to their forthcoming sophomore album is a delicious portal into perth’s incandescent musical universe.\n\nperth’s forthcoming album <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em> manages 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.\n\nThe band\'s debut <em>Babes, Water, Waves</em> landed in a number of best of 2012 lists and scooped glowing reviews wherever it was covered. Here\'s a quick taste,\n\n<em>“a record that has surpassed all expectation... combines elements of post-rock, electronica and psych, but this genre-collage never feels forced. Instead, it’s a well-constructed body of work that sounds more accomplished than any debut record I’ve heard in quite a while”</em> – <strong>Life is Noise on Babes, Water, Waves</strong>\n\n[soundcloud url=\"http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/112338352\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\" width=\" 100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n<strong>perth - \'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\'</strong>','New perth Single &#039;Drank and Kites and Tomorrow&#039; (Free Download) !','','publish','closed','open','','new-perth-single-drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7167',0,'post','',0),(7193,1,'2013-09-27 03:09:18','2013-09-27 03:09:18','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Arc Iris\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/arciris_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Liam Singer</a>\'s beguiling new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a> continues to scoop glowing reviews wherever it lands. Lead single \'Stranger I Know\' has recently been touched by the wonderful pen of Mark Barton (Losing Today, God Is In The TV) over at his blog, <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/liam-singer/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sunday Experience</a>. The album has also recently been lovingly reviewed at the excellent Polish music site <a href=\"http://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2013/09/24/liam-singer/\" target=\"_blank\">Nowamuzyka</a> (you\'ll need to exercise your Polish here or use Google to translate). A little closer to label HQ now where the album scored a 9/10 along with a fantastic review in the Perth-based <a href=\"http://issuu.com/uwastudentguild/docs/pelican_84_ed_5\" target=\"_blank\">Pelican</a> magazine. Lets head to Germany now to the lovely <a href=\"http://www.schallgrenzen.de/gansehaut-erzeugende-kammermusik-liam-singer-arc-iris/\" target=\"_blank\">Schallgrenzen blog</a> where you\'ll find a lovely review of \'Stranger I Know\' that somehow missed our radar until now.\n\nStay tuned for more reviews and the next single from <em>Arc Iris</em> released October 9. Grab the first two singles for free and purchase the album over at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/101371984\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\" 100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n<strong>Liam Singer - \'Disappear and Appear\'</strong>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviews Update','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviews-update','','','2014-08-01 02:30:09','2014-08-01 02:30:09','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7193',0,'post','',0),(7204,1,'2013-09-27 03:16:11','2013-09-27 03:16:11','\"On the day that computers compose the most beautiful music, how will we know what makes us human? I am not sure whether Liam Singer is actually thematically exploring this notion or simply trying to mimic what it might sound like – in either case, it rules, and I will gladly submit myself to the terrifying software overmind. No, I am making lame robot jokes because <i>Arc Iris</i> has something slightly mechanical-feeling about it, as though each note was placed, each tonal choice made specifically to hit a certain part of my brain; in a way, I’m sure it has. Think Sufjan Stevens but with a more restrained scope; there is wholeness to this record that I haven’t felt in a while, especially in what is essentially experimental pop music.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://issuu.com/uwastudentguild/docs/pelican_84_ed_5\" target=\"_blank\">Pelican</a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed in Pelican Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-in-pelican-magazine','','','2013-09-27 03:16:11','2013-09-27 03:16:11','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7204',0,'post','',0),(7207,1,'2013-09-27 03:19:47','2013-09-27 03:19:47','[Translated from the Polish with help from Google Translate. View original <a href=\"http://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2013/09/24/liam-singer/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.]\n\n\"<span><span>Liam Singer was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. </span><span>As a fourteen year old began recording songs on accordion, synthesizer and the theremin. </span><span>He studied composition at Kenyon College in Ohio, where the harpsichord was his main instrument, and after returning to Portland he recorded his first album \"The Empty Heart of the Chameleon\". </span><span>Singer then settled in San Francisco with </span></span><a title=\"http://boxharp.com/\" href=\"http://boxharp.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>Scott Solter</span></span></a><span><span> and recorded his second album \"Our Secret Lies Beneath The Creek\". </span><span>After moving to New York, Liam Singer, published in 2010, the album \"Dislocatia\" through Australian label Hidden Shoal Recordings. </span><span>In July of this year he released his fourth LP \'Arc Iris \"(Hidden Shoal Recordings). </span><span>By the way, I recommend a look at the comprehensive catalog of the independent publishing house in Perth, which offers the </span></span><a title=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=12\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=12\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>free download</span></span></a><span><span> compilation of music artists gathered around the label.</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Musically, \"Arc Iris\" oscillates between experimental vision of pop music and contemporary variant of post-Romantic classical music, with influences of lo-fi aesthetics. </span><span>Certainly \"Arc Iris\" will appeal to lovers of the Icelandic Bedroom Community artists. </span><span>The way he sings Liam Singer and the color of his voice remind me on one hand of the vocals of Win Butler (Arcade Fire), and on the other - he has the manner of David Tibet (Current 93).</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Singer\'s complex arrangements evidently approach it to the album \"The Soft Bulletin\" by The Flaming Lips and the work of Sufjan Stevens, who is not worthy of such compositions featured in the album \"Arc Iris\".</span></span>\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2013/09/24/liam-singer/\" target=\"_blank\">Nowamuzyka</a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed at Nowamuzyka','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-at-nowamuzyka','','','2013-09-27 03:19:47','2013-09-27 03:19:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7207',0,'post','',0),(7211,1,'2013-09-27 03:26:37','2013-09-27 03:26:37','\"Okay we lied – more loveliness fro the hidden shoal stable – frankly we couldn’t resist this – culled from his current set ‘arc iris’ which should be available at all decent and discerning record emporiums near you and if not then just a click away on that there interweb facility, ’stranger I know’ is the latest single from Liam Singer – who as described by the press release is ’a Queens based chamber pop experimentalist’. now this honey kookily bumbles along to a delightfully lolloping tip toe like springing string serenade and a distractively cute crooked time signature that pushes and pulls giving way to a playful charm that suggests it was hatched in a nursery room, add to that the choral arrangements, the twinkling bell chimes and the peek a boo wind instrumentations which eventually all collide and collude to adorn the listening space in enchantment, in short beautifully crafted pastoral pop whittled together in a classical handicraft and turn by an archaic melodic tongue, fans of Serafina Steer and the like will swoon a tad.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/liam-singer/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Sunday Experience</strong></a>','Liam Singer &#039;Stranger I Know&#039; Reviewed by The Sunday Experience','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-stranger-i-know-reviewed-by-the-sunday-experience','','','2013-09-27 03:26:37','2013-09-27 03:26:37','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7211',0,'post','',0),(7215,1,'2013-09-27 03:40:14','2013-09-27 03:40:14','[Translated from the German via Google Translate. View the original <a href=\"http://www.schallgrenzen.de/gansehaut-erzeugende-kammermusik-liam-singer-arc-iris/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.]\n\"Oh, how nice. The song \"Stranger I Know\" dancing around the room, pulled down the corners of the mouth can not help but hear a grin. The sun is shining. Feather-light, lilting pop to the press, hugging and embracing. Chimes, choir and ultimately a sad cello. It follows with \"Nine Ten\" a trickling piano, melancholy vocals and female chorus in the highest terms. That sounds good, I like that. These wonderful songs and much more can be found on the new fourth album \"Arc Iris\" by Liam Singer from Queens, NYC. Much too short songs, dreamlike melody, reminiscent of the 70s blümeranten, prose set to music, beautiful singing. Spine-chilling chamber music between indie-pop and folk.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.schallgrenzen.de/gansehaut-erzeugende-kammermusik-liam-singer-arc-iris/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Schallgrenzen</strong></a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed at Schallgrenzen','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-at-schallgrenzen','','','2013-09-27 03:40:14','2013-09-27 03:40:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7215',0,'post','',0),(7218,1,'2013-09-27 05:18:14','2013-09-27 05:18:14','<a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/releases\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\'The Wooden Heart\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/woodensingle_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a>\' sublime new dreamgaze single \'The Wooden Heart\', taken from his forthcoming EP of the same name (October 17), has recently been receiving the kind of love a song like this deserves. First up the wonderful Mark Barton over at The Sunday Experience blog gave the track a <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/kramies/\" target=\"_blank\">glowing write up</a>, then the fantastic Hey Reverb made the track one of their \"Steal This\" feature spots along with a <a href=\"http://www.heyreverb.com/blog/2013/09/25/steal-this-track-from-kramies/78038/\" target=\"_blank\">beautiful review</a> and last up for this little roundup the excellent French magazine Obskure recently wrote a lovely little pre-release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/archive/kramies-the-wooden-heart-ep-reviewed-at-obskure/\" target=\"_blank\"> review</a> of the EP.\n\n<em>\"Pressed upon celestial arcs that usher in distant memories of the mercurial melodic musings of slowdive and chapterhouse at their most fragile and angelic peaks, ’the wooden heart’ is wrapped longingly in snow bursting showers of dream dipped porcelain signatures so intricately woven, airless and frail that you fear they will shatter just by your closeness in earshot of them, a beautified aural apparition teased in yearning introspection and sweetly glazed in the kind of unworldly rapture that suggests its author is well versed in the songbook craft of the crimea and mirror mirror.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/kramies/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Sunday Experience</strong></a>\n\nIf you haven\'t secured your free copy of \'The Wooden Heart\' single then head to the <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/releases\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and download yourself some melodic majesty.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108752237\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\" 100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','Kramies &#039;The Wooden Heart&#039; Single Reviews and Features','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-single-reviews-and-features','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7218',0,'post','',0),(7219,1,'2013-09-27 05:08:58','2013-09-27 05:08:58','\"I discovered Kramies in the very beautiful project Terres Neuves of the photographer Jérôme Sevrette. His new EP, announced for the middle of October, follows in \"The European\". We discover six autumnal, foggy and volatile songs (\" Upon the Northern Isles \"), compositions which place in orbit a precious voice. Guided by the affect when the music makes sacred and stretches (\" Sea otter cottage \"), always softly in its singing, but strong in the fact that the songs suggests (\"The Beginning\") affecting(touching) nothing less that an awakening to the world on \" Clocks were all broken \". Jason Lytle and Todd Tobias lent their ears to this \"wooden heart\", cutting in their turn through the bark to suggest the beatings of these veins. The acoustic instruments go out then polished by the electronic effects, the brushed fibers carrying in them a little of this magic for which Kramies, title after title, tries to marry. \"\n\n- Obskure Magazine','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; EP Reviewed at Obskure','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-ep-reviewed-at-obskure','','','2013-09-27 05:08:58','2013-09-27 05:08:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7219',0,'post','',0),(7227,1,'2013-09-27 05:22:07','2013-09-27 05:22:07','\"Kramies Windt, the Denver-based artist who releases ethereal pop music using only his first name, finds inspiration writing music while confined to his coat closet. In itself, this is not so odd; Kurt Cobain was said to do the same thing. What makes this interesting is how Kramies music is so very expansive rather than claustrophobic. It’s as if writing in a cramped space inspires a longing for an expanding landscape.\n\nThis longing is also translated in the music. While Kramies uses synth to create a dreamlike quality that should engender disconnect, he uses acoustic guitar and other singer-songwriter elements to create an emotional directness. It’s a gorgeous contrast that has brought him international attention.\n\nIn previous incarnations, Kramies has opened for music heavyweights like Yo La Tengo and Calexico. Perhaps it was these connections that brought Todd Tobias, producer for Guided By Voices, on-board to produce tracks for Kramies new EP, “The Wooden Heart,” to be released on the Australian label <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a>. Kramies also enlisted Jason Lytle of Grandaddy fame to produce tracks. Clearly, he leaves the coat closet from time to time.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.heyreverb.com/blog/2013/09/25/steal-this-track-from-kramies/78038/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hey Reverb</strong></a>','Kramies &#039;The Wooden Heart&#039; Single Reviewed at Hey Reverb','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-single-reviewed-at-hey-reverb','','','2013-09-27 05:22:07','2013-09-27 05:22:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7227',0,'post','',0),(7231,1,'2013-09-27 06:24:27','2013-09-27 06:24:27','<a href=\"https://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/drank_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>The fantastic music blog <a href=\"http://perfectmidnightworld.tumblr.com/post/62312269708/drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow-by-perth-whats\" target=\"_blank\">PerfectMidnightWorld</a> has just dropped a loving write up for the just released single \'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\' by perth. Check out a taste of it here,\n\n<em>\"The track opens with a sighing brass arrangement that feels as melancholic as it does triumphant, and is soon joined by layers of skittering beats and heavenly ambient tones. The extended intro pulses alive and soon the the sounds melt into a spiraling electro-psych-pop wonder, drenched in swirling, warm electronics and vocals cloaked in hushed reverb. Before you know it, you’re wrapped in a warped psych pop lullaby that would feel right at home on a <strong>Spiritualized</strong> record. The track has an exciting sense of discovery that opens itself up like a new dawn sun, expanding further into fertile new territory with each passing second.\"</em> - <strong><a href=\"http://perfectmidnightworld.tumblr.com/post/62312269708/drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow-by-perth-whats\" target=\"_blank\">PerfectMidnightWorld</a></strong>\n\nThe lovely folks over Mess &amp; Noise have also just featured the new perth single and wrote up the album for their <a href=\"http://www.messandnoise.com/news/4617273\" target=\"_blank\">Forthcoming Releases</a> segment.\n\n\'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\' is available now as a free download from the Hidden Shoal Store. The track lands ahead of the release of perth\'s sophomore full length <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em> our November 14.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/112338352\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\" 100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','perth Featured at PerfectMidnightWorld and Mess &amp; Noise','','publish','closed','open','','perth-featured-at-perfectmidnightworld-and-mess-noise','','','2016-02-03 16:06:15','2016-02-03 08:06:15','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7231',0,'post','',0),(7233,1,'2013-09-27 06:28:45','2013-09-27 06:28:45','\"The Australian electro experimentalist group, <strong>Perth</strong>, will soon release their sophomore album, “<em>What’s Your Utopia?</em>”, but first they’ve gone and released a taste of things to come in the form of the soaring single, “Drank and Kites and Tomorrow”. The track opens with a sighing brass arrangement that feels as melancholic as it does triumphant, and is soon joined by layers of skittering beats and heavenly ambient tones. The extended intro pulses alive and soon the the sounds melt into a spiraling electro-psych-pop wonder, drenched in swirling, warm electronics and vocals cloaked in hushed reverb. Before you know it, you’re wrapped in a warped psych pop lullaby that would feel right at home on a <strong>Spiritualized</strong> record. The track has an exciting sense of discovery that opens itself up like a new dawn sun, expanding further into fertile new territory with each passing second. Perth is a band to watch and “Drank and Kites and Tomorrow” is a track in which you can easily be absorbed. It’s gorgeous, exciting, and confident music and you can grab it for free from <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-drank-and-kites-and\">Soundcloud</a> while downloads last.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://perfectmidnightworld.tumblr.com/post/62312269708/drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow-by-perth-whats\" target=\"_blank\">PerfectMidnightWorld</a>','perth &#039;Drank and Kites and Tomorrow&#039; Reviewed at PerfectMidnightWorld','','publish','closed','open','','perth-drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow-reviewed-at-perfectmidnightworld','','','2013-09-27 06:28:45','2013-09-27 06:28:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7233',0,'post','',0),(7238,1,'2013-09-27 09:00:48','2013-09-27 09:00:48','<a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bari\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Live In Bari\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/bari_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Check out <a href=\"http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2013/09/markus-mehr-live-in-bari-hidden-shoals-recordings/\" target=\"_blank\">this fantastic review</a> of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>\'s brilliant live album <em>Live In Bari</em> over at Cyclic Defrost. Here\'s a taste,\n\n<em>\"The sounds just feel organic, not trapped inside circuitry. Coming after a decade or so of solo, loop based, ambient-noise explorations of every shade, the fact that Mehr has created a piece, within these parameters, that doesn’t sound stale, rote or like an artist going through the motions is an achievement in itself. That is imminently listenable, evocative and beautiful as well is a great bonus. The hearty applause at the end of the set is thoroughly justified.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2013/09/markus-mehr-live-in-bari-hidden-shoals-recordings/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cyclic Defrost</strong></a>\n\nIf you\'ve not heard<em> Live In Bari</em> yet then you\'ve got no excuse as this sublime live recording is available for free download from the <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bari\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>!','Fantastic Review of Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;Live In Bari&quot; at Cyclic Defrost','','publish','closed','open','','fantastic-review-for-markus-mehrs-live-in-bari-at-cyclic-defrost','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7238',0,'post','',0),(7241,1,'2013-09-27 09:02:52','2013-09-27 09:02:52','\"The proliferation of looping pedals has been both a blessing and a curse for improvising musicians. One-man(woman)-bands are able to proliferate, backing their own noodlings with self-created walls of texture, rhythm and harmonic structure. The ease with which this is possible, however, can result in something of a uniform, and therefore stale, sound and dynamic between artists. This single track, live recording of Markus Mehr avoids much of that aural greyness.\n\nStarting with the sound of a guitar jack being plugged in, which is looped to give us the first, simple rhythm, it doesn’t take Mehr too long to build up momentum. What initially sounds like guitar textures make up the bulk of the opening movement. About 10 minutes in, there’s a dynamic shift. At first, ghostly radio voices pass through semi-consciously, then walls of grainy synth chordal meanderings build to a near crescendo, with nods to Fennesz or Ben Frost. The grains are gradually amplified and split apart, haunting monk choruses flying in the background as the digital processing takes the lead role. I can imagine Mehr gradually moving from one instrument to another, then to his effects units/ laptop as the music meanders along. It is a visually evocative work, in that sense. Not in terms of being the soundtrack to some movie of the mind but, like a work of abstract expressionism, containing the movements of creation in some detail, while simultaneously maintaining its own sense of self-contained grandeur and wonder. An aural Rothko, if you will (Pollock or De Kooning far too brash for the sensitivity of sound heard below the static here).\n\nAs the piece progresses, a more static, drone-based stillness settles underneath the increasingly strident processing, before the two kind of mesh into a warm, noise like wash. A sudden rise in booming bass signals the end of this phase, cutting out with a single clunk before the meandering synths and sighs weigh back in. Those voices grow and grow, phasing around as a degraded tape recording, the airy synths eventually taking their place.\n\nThe set is a constantly evolving monolith. Apart from that one, dynamic shift midway through, you never really notice the shifts, yet where it ends up is a fair way from where it starts and from many of the points along the way. For a work that has the overall feel of ambience, no sound is ever stationary and, most importantly, unless you consciously decide to listen out for them, you never really notice the reliance on loops. The sounds just feel organic, not trapped inside circuitry. Coming after a decade or so of solo, loop based, ambient-noise explorations of every shade, the fact that Mehr has created a piece, within these parameters, that doesn’t sound stale, rote or like an artist going through the motions is an achievement in itself. That is imminently listenable, evocative and beautiful as well is a great bonus. The hearty applause at the end of the set is thoroughly justified.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2013/09/markus-mehr-live-in-bari-hidden-shoals-recordings/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cyclic Defrost</strong></a>','Markus Mehr &quot;Live In Bari&quot; Reviewed at Cyclic Defrost','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-live-in-bari-reviewed-at-cyclic-defrost','','','2013-09-27 09:02:52','2013-09-27 09:02:52','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7241',0,'post','',0),(7244,1,'2013-10-04 07:42:48','2013-10-04 07:42:48','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Kramies\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" width=\"107\" height=\"107\" />In less than two weeks we get to share the absolutely beautiful new EP from Colorado-based dream-pop merchant <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\" target=\"_blank\">Kramies</a>. <em>The Wooden Heart </em>(Oct. 17th) features the production and instrumental talents of Jason Lytle of Grandaddy fame, along with the inimitable production and additional instrumentation of Robert Pollard co-conspirator Todd Tobias.\n\nWe\'ve already released the first taste of the album with the epic title track which you can <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/kramies-the-wooden-heart\" target=\"_blank\">stream</a> or <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/releases\">download</a> for free. We now present another sneak peak into the EP with  this mesmerising short video for the parting track from the release \'The Ending\'. Check it out below or stream it directly from <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHV7ZWshkM&amp;list=PLC331131EC8DC434C&amp;index=2\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube</a> or <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/75967196\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a>.\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/vOHV7ZWshkM?list=PLC331131EC8DC434C\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','New Music Video from Kramies Forthcoming EP','','publish','closed','open','','new-music-video-from-kramies-forthcoming-ep','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7244',0,'post','',0),(7247,1,'2013-10-08 01:42:52','2013-10-08 01:42:52','<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/voices-out-there-single\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Voices Out There (Single)\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/voices-single_MED.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" /></a>We have an absolutely beautiful new single and stunning accompanying music video for you from garage-dreampop trio <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\" target=\"_blank\">[The] Caseworker</a>.  ‘Voices Out There’, the title track to their forthcoming  new album (24th October), is available now as a <a title=\"Free Download\" href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/voices-out-there-single\">free download</a> and for <a title=\"Streaming on Soundcloud\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/the-caseworker-voices-out\" target=\"_blank\">streaming on SoundCloud</a>. The accompanying 3D animated music video by Cam Merton, Hidden Shoal label manager and experimental film-maker, is available for streaming on <a title=\"Voices Out There Music Video\" href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC-Sm-5450Q\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube</a> and <a title=\"Voices Out There Music Video\" href=\"https://vimeo.com/76264182\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a>.\n\nOf all the songs on <i>Voices Out There</i>, the title track is most explicitly coloured by Conor Devlin’s experience of recovering from a serious car accident in 2012. ‘Voices Out There’ vividly surveys the morphine hallucinations experienced while confined to a hospital bed in Switzerland. The song’s chiming modulated guitars, gently bobbing rhythm section and warm yet dislocated vocals generate a sense of intimacy and fragility that is deeply affecting. The track\'s 3d animated music video visually renders the intimate, surreal and dislocated spatiality conveyed so beautifully in the song.\n\n<i></i>The track is lifted from the band’s fourth album, and their second for Hidden Shoal, <em>Voices Out There</em>, which 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.\n\n<iframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/76264182\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>\n\n<a href=\"http://vimeo.com/76264182\">[The] Caseworker - \'Voices Out There\'</a> from <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/hiddenshoal\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> on <a href=\"https://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.','New Single and Music Video from [The] Caseworker - Free Download','','publish','closed','open','','new-single-and-music-video-from-the-caseworker-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:16:24','2016-02-03 08:16:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7247',0,'post','',0),(7259,1,'2013-10-09 05:32:01','2013-10-09 05:32:01','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Liam Singer\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/liam-singer.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"147\" />A treat for all <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Liam Singer</a> fans (and those yet to become one!) - the wonderful Conor O\'Toole, host of the equally wonderful <a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com.au/\" target=\"_blank\">The Underground of Happiness</a> radio show, recently interviewed Liam Singer about his new album, his musical processes and influenses and all the wondrous intricacies in between. Check out the full interview now on <a href=\"http://www.mixcloud.com/theundergroundofhappiness/interview-with-liam-singer-whose-new-album-arc-iris-is-out-now-in-hidden-shoal/\">MixCloud</a>.\n\nAnd of course if you have not yet lost yourself in what must be one of the most compositionally brilliant and melodically immersive pop albums of the year then head <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\">here</a> immediately.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/101371984\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\" 100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','Liam Singer Interview on The Underground of Happiness Radio Show - Stream','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singer-interview-on-the-underground-of-happiness-radio-show-stream','','','2014-08-01 02:30:09','2014-08-01 02:30:09','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7259',0,'post','',0),(7263,1,'2013-10-14 07:13:21','2013-10-14 07:13:21','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"The Wooden Heart\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/woodensingle.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Just ahead of the release of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a>\' stunning new EP <em>The Wooden Heart </em>the lead single and title track have just been reviewed over at one of our favourite music blogs <a href=\"http://misfitcity.org/2013/10/02/review-knifeworld-dont-land-on-me-single-kramies-the-wooden-heart-single-both-2013-dancing-at-the-end-of-the-world-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Misfit City</a>. Here\'s a taste,\n\n<em>\"In the middle, the song holds its breath for half a moment, then rises into a blissful dream-pop threshing; a massed quilt of hammering Slowdive-ian guitars joyfully plunging down onto each beat. “Spill out the haven, throw my maths chart away, ‘cos you’re the one,” Kramies sings, in an exultant sigh. “Throw my maps, a castaway.” It’s rare to find dream-pop that resolves with such assured optimism, in which you can sense experience shifting into its proper place. While Kavus and Knifeworld constantly quest for resolution – and spin some dazzling pirouettes along the way – Kramies seems to have mastered the talent of simply breathing it into shape.\"</em> - <strong>Misfit City</strong>\n\nRead the full review at <a href=\"http://misfitcity.org/2013/10/02/review-knifeworld-dont-land-on-me-single-kramies-the-wooden-heart-single-both-2013-dancing-at-the-end-of-the-world-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Misfit City</a> and download the single for free from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.','Kramies &#039;The Wooden Heart&#039; Single Reviewed at Misfit City','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-single-reviewed-at-misfit-city','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7263',0,'post','',0),(7267,1,'2013-10-14 07:18:08','2013-10-14 07:18:08','\"While Knifeworld fret about doom and ward it off with their showbiz, <strong>Kramies</strong> gets by on faith. Not for him Knifeworld’s tussle of John Barry and John Adams, nor their trick-cycling. With Todd Tobias keeping a gentle producer’s eye on things, ‘The Wooden Heart’ rolls along on that familiar drowsy acoustic-guitar trudge that’s served forty years of green-tinted psychedelia from Camel to Mercury Rev to Porcupine Tree. A spectral moonlit fungus of vaporous keyboards grow on and around everything: a high-altitude electric wash of sparks, smoothness and textural drag spreads out at telescope height, snowploughing the Milky Way. As for the song, it’s less involved and intricate than much of the material which Kramies has sung up for us since his 2008 emergence. A dream-pop caroller with a lucid organic twist to his songs, he once came across as a mellower Paddy McAloon with a hint of pixie. Now he’s closer to visionary Neil Young territory, the point where American folk-song blurs without a jolt into slumbering subconscious. He’s singing softly and with understanding beyond his sleepy burr, like a wise newborn already dusted from the road.\n\nThis is a love song, of a different kind. Kramies is pulling up memories: treasuring them, but also acknowledging how memory and memorabilia gently cheat and distort the truths which they’re set up to hold onto – <em>“Forged from the photograph when the tides they rode you down; / smudged from the perfect lens, so I brought you back to ground.”</em> Despite the dreamy, distant atmospheres Kramies isn’t dwelling on someone gone. He’s celebrating someone never lost, someone coming into clearer focus as present merges with memory: <em>“We fell in love with wind, sun and movies, / no need to stay. / Countdowns and journeys, conversations, fell through our day.”</em>\n\nIn the middle, the song holds its breath for half a moment, then rises into a blissful dream-pop threshing; a massed quilt of hammering Slowdive-ian guitars joyfully plunging down onto each beat. <em>“Spill out the haven, throw my maths chart away, ‘cos you’re the one,”</em> Kramies sings, in an exultant sigh. <em>“Throw my maps, a castaway.”</em> It’s rare to find dream-pop that resolves with such assured optimism, in which you can sense experience shifting into its proper place. While Kavus and Knifeworld constantly quest for resolution – and spin some dazzling pirouettes along the way – Kramies seems to have mastered the talent of simply breathing it into shape.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://misfitcity.org/2013/10/02/review-knifeworld-dont-land-on-me-single-kramies-the-wooden-heart-single-both-2013-dancing-at-the-end-of-the-world-party/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>- Misfit City</strong></a>','&#039;The Wooden Heart&#039; (Single) Reviewed at Misfit City','','publish','closed','open','','the-wooden-heart-single-reviewed-at-misfit-city','','','2013-10-14 07:18:08','2013-10-14 07:18:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7267',0,'post','',0),(7274,1,'2013-10-17 03:37:12','2013-10-17 03:37:12','<a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/wooden-ep_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We\'re very excited to finally be able to share this absolutely stunning new release from Colorado-based dream-pop maestro Kramies. <a title=\"Buy &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot;\" href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> EP features the production and instrumental talents of Jason Lytle of Grandaddy fame, along with the inimitable production and additional instrumentation of Robert Pollard co-conspirator Todd Tobias. The EP mines a wonderfully rich seam of atmospheric yet epic songcraft that Kramies has made his own. From the throbbing ambient introduction of ‘The Beginning’ through to the delicate folk of ‘The Ending’, Kramies’ new EP covers vast emotional and musical terrain during its 23-minute run-time.  The title track’s windswept grandeur is married to an emotional directness that demands your attention and doesn’t let go, ‘Sea Otter Cottage’ sways and swoons with an almost unbearable poignancy, and ‘Clocks Were All Broken’ both alludes to and embodies this music’s timeless appeal.\n\n<em>“In the middle, the song holds its breath for half a moment, then rises into a blissful dream-pop threshing; a massed quilt of hammering Slowdive-ian guitars joyfully plunging down onto each beat. “Spill out the haven, throw my maths chart away, ‘cos you’re the one,” Kramies sings, in an exultant sigh. “Throw my maps, a castaway.” It’s rare to find dream-pop that resolves with such assured optimism, in which you can sense experience shifting into its proper place... Kramies seems to have mastered the talent of simply breathing it into shape.”</em> – <strong>Misfit City on the EP\'s title track.\n</strong>\n\nThe album is available in digital format as well as a very limited edition CD (limited to 50 units). The EP features artwork by the wonderful French photographer Jérôme Sevrette and all downloads include a beautiful extended digital booklet with lyrics and more of Jérôme\'s work. Check out the album at our <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\" target=\"_self\">store</a> or on <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\" target=\"_self\">Bandcamp</a>, <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/releases\" target=\"_self\">download</a> the first single for free, and check out this <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHV7ZWshkM&amp;list=PLC331131EC8DC434C\" target=\"_self\">lovely little video</a> for the EP\'s parting track \'The Ending\'.\n\nEnjoy!\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108752237\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n<strong>Kramies - \'The Wooden Heart\' (Single)</strong>','New Kramies EP (feat. Jason Lytle of Grandaddy) Out Now!','','publish','closed','open','','new-kramies-ep-feat-jason-lytle-of-grandaddy-out-now','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7274',0,'post','',0),(7285,1,'2013-10-18 05:27:24','2013-10-18 05:27:24','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=243\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Liam Singer - \'Unhand Me (You Horrid Thing)\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/unhandme_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We\'re excited to announce the release of ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=243\">Unhand Me (You Horrid Thing)</a>’, the new single by Queens-based chamber-pop experimentalist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Liam Singer</a>, taken from his fourth album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a>. ‘Unhand Me (You Horrid Thing)’ plays out like a perfect little music box of a song. As if forever earthbound yet staring at the stars in reflection, the track somehow brings to mind the sparkling pop of The Beach Boys with the dour and witty lyricism of Morrissey. Its sensuous, rippling shape is intricately carved with instrumental flourishes and addictive melodies that remain with you long beyond its short run-time. It embodies the immediate appeal of Liam Singer’s sunnier compositions, contrasting wonderfully with the haunting atmosphere of previous single ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=234\">Nine Ten</a>’.\n\n‘Unhand Me (You Horrid Thing)’  is available as a free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=243\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and can be streamed in full over at the <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liam-singer-unhand-me-you\">Hidden Shoal SoundCloud</a>. <em>Arc Iris</em> is available now in limited edition CD and digital formats (including lossless) and previous singles \'Stranger I Know\' and \'Nine Ten\' are also available for free download. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all details.\n\n<em>“Singer’s exceptional command of melody, compositional form, and arrangement are on full display, and the performances are first-rate, too. Arc Iris is forty-three minutes of music guaranteed to make you swoon”</em> – <strong>Textura</strong>\n\n<em>“a uniquely experimental approach to pop music…. His music has the stately and cerebral sides of modern composition, not to mention the beauty and grace, but also an intimacy and directness”</em> – <strong>PopMatters</strong>\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/115730355\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','Stunning New Single from Chamber-Pop Experimentalist Liam Singer - Free Download','','draft','closed','open','','stunning-new-single-from-chamber-pop-experimentalist-liam-singer-free-download','','','2014-08-01 02:30:09','2014-08-01 02:30:09','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7285',0,'post','',0),(7303,1,'2013-10-19 14:30:59','2013-10-19 14:30:59','\"Monocle greatly impressed with their first album ‘Outer Sunset’, which came across as the New York born child of Broadcast and Stereolab. Since then mainman Rich Bennett has released several mini albums, one an imaginary soundtrack for an imaginary 80′s cop show whilst the other two, ‘Music For Underwater Supermarkets’ and ‘On Holiday’, largely sounded like the titles suggested. Intriguing and inventive though they were, it’s refreshing to hear him placing the emphasis on song-based material for the belated second album by Monocle.\n\nSo what’s changed since the first album? For a start, Bennett has brought in Dead Leaf Echo’s Ana Breton to share vocal duties which adds a welcome contrast to Bennett’s own baritone. There’s also a commendable array of unusual instruments used in these songs. Steel drums (‘Breeze Along With Me’), surf guitar (‘Plastic Beach’) and Wurlitzer instrumentals (‘Swinger400′) all feature but in all honesty only the first of these is essential listening. Otherwise, though, classy moments are generously offered from track to track.\n\nOn the first song, ‘Snake’, the bouncy synth lines and strings usher in a great chorus, which is equal parts 1960′s easy listening and electro-pop. ‘Chances Glide’, the single, is an easy choice for a highlight; a pop song which is as much about mystery and intrigue as it is about being insanely addictive. This signals an upsurge in quality from the noirish urgency of ‘Exus’, to the moody jazz-pop ‘Inside The Gate’ and ending on a great high as a wonderfully meandering bassline takes on Stereolab-esque passages of beauty for ‘Most People Believe’.\n\nBeing hyper-critical, it’s hard not to feel a little short changed by ‘Transpacific Sound Paradise’, because at just thirty three minutes, this is a very brief album. Nevertheless, this being a Rich Bennett record, it’s a richly diverse offering with the majority of songs clearly touched by his retro-futurist pop genius.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://leonardslair.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Leonard\'s Lair</strong></a>','Monocle &quot;Transpacific Sound Paradise&quot; Reviewed at Leonard&#039;s Lair','','draft','closed','open','','monocle-transpacific-sound-paradise-reviewed-at-leonards-lair','','','2014-08-01 02:21:38','2014-08-01 02:21:38','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7303',0,'post','',0),(7305,1,'2013-10-19 15:07:51','2013-10-19 15:07:51','<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/voices-out-there-single\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/voices-single.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /></a>More lovely reviews rolling in for Hidden Shoal releases. This time <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=27\">Monocle</a>\'s brilliant new album  <em>Transpacific Sound</em> Paradise has just been lovingly reviewed at <a href=\"http://leonardslair.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/review-monocle-transpacific-sound-paradise/\" target=\"_blank\">Leonard\'s Lair</a> and <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\">[The] Caseworker</a>\'s latest single and title track to their forthcoming album <em>Voices Out There </em> has just been reviewed at <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/the-caseworker/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sunday Experience</a> as well as the Polish blog <a href=\"http://polyphonia.pl/2013/10/nowy-klip-od-the-caseworker/\" target=\"_blank\">Polyphonia</a>.\n\nHead to the <a href=\"http://agora.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to check out the above releases by Monocle and [The] Caseworker along with free downloads and previous albums.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/81194414\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n<strong>Monocle - \'Chances Glide\'</strong>','[The] Caseworker and Monocle Reviews','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-and-monocle-reviews','','','2016-02-03 16:16:24','2016-02-03 08:16:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7305',0,'post','',0),(7311,1,'2013-10-19 15:11:54','2013-10-19 15:11:54','\"Due soon from Hidden Shoal is the fourth album from multi national dream pop collective [the] Caseworker entitled ‘voices out there’ for which you can expect fond words in later musings here though not before we’ve had a chance to you flavour your listening space with a sneak peak of the title track via this quite delightful animated video. directed by HS head honcho Cam Merton. Romantically brooding and darkly majestic, ‘voices out there’ uncoils like some ghostly apparition unfurling to consume the voids and dapple the once was nothingness in a rich opiate velour, there’s a poise, a sense of grandeur unlocked and attaching here, tenderly intimate and yearning, yet cut to quick in a hollowing reflection that stilled, spectral and graceful not to mention something very much mainlining into the core melodic psyche of The Church.\"\n\n-<a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/the-caseworker/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> The Sunday Experience</strong></a>','[The] Caseworker &#039;Voices Out There&#039; Single Reviewed at The Sunday Experience','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-voices-out-there-single-reviewed-at-the-sunday-experience','','','2013-10-19 15:11:54','2013-10-19 15:11:54','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7311',0,'post','',0),(7313,1,'2013-10-22 05:35:08','2013-10-22 05:35:08','\"This album by Liam Singer really received a perfect production. It is basically a song album but there has been given so much attention to the arrangements and production, that this background for it made it also a chamber-folk album, which is so well arranged that it reminds me of some of these well-given attention to laptop-folk productions. We have a male lead vocalist, where the female vocalists provides mostly nice vocal harmonies and background harmonies or act like a second voice. Most arrangements are full of arpeggio’s. It is a kind of post-minimalist pop-classical music provided to the piano, with some additional glockenspiel, keyboards, flute and violin mostly, rich in detail and dynamisms. The used rhythms are clear, pleasant, happy, almost dancing, fresh and are conceived with a commercially attractive classical music vision. At times the album is more clearly songwriter based, there are a few moments where it becomes nearer to a subtly arranged kind of art cabaret or a musical or so, like a tale told by a barrel organ player who now has a small chamber ensemble to replace the organ on stage. A surprising and very pleasant to listen to release.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/LiamSinger.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psychedelic Folk</strong></a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed at Psychedelic Folk','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-at-psychedelic-folk','','','2013-10-22 05:35:08','2013-10-22 05:35:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7313',0,'post','',0),(7316,1,'2013-10-22 08:13:57','2013-10-22 08:13:57','\"Perth (guess where they’re from) pack breezy but still densely layered, intellectual but tuneful, indie but art rock in this advance single. Pretty much the perfect exemplar for the Hidden Shoal style and as intriguing and listenable as always. (Chris Cobcroft)\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/reviews/albums/4zzz-music-department-awesome-fortnightly-music-update-4\">4ZZZ</a>','perth &#039;Drank and Kites and Tomorrow&#039; Reviewed at 4ZZZ','','publish','closed','open','','perth-drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow-reviewed-at-4zzz','','','2013-10-22 08:13:57','2013-10-22 08:13:57','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7316',0,'post','',0),(7318,1,'2013-10-24 02:41:38','2013-10-24 02:41:38','<p dir=\"ltr\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7327\" alt=\"Voices Out There\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Voices-Out-There-Album-300px-No-Text-300x300.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"181\" />We\'ve been bursting at the seems to release this amazing album! It is of course <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/voices-out-there\"><em>Voices Out There</em></a>, the fourth album by garage-dreampop trio <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\">[The] Caseworker</a>. <em>Voices Out There</em> sees the band rein in the lo-fi guitar-pop impulses of acclaimed third album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\"><em>Letters From The Coast</em></a> to explore a more expansive, minimal sound, akin to Conor and Eimer Devlin’s previous band <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/half-film/\">Half Film</a>. The band manage to channel the best of Flying Nun\'s roster and merge it with their inimitably dreamy and atmospheric take on rock music.</p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>“[The] Caseworker extract darkness from inside whispery, ambient pop… completely enraptured and awesomely dazed”</em> – <strong>Rolling Stone</strong></p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">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>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Voices Out There</em> is available now in CD and digital formats. All CD orders include an immediate download of the album in mp3 or FLAC formats and all downloads come with a beautiful extended digital booklet. Head to the <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/voices-out-there\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all the details.</p>\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/iC-Sm-5450Q?rel=0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>\n<strong>[The] Caseworker - \'Voices Out There\' (Single)</strong>','New Album &quot;Voices Out There&quot; from [The] Caseworker Now Available!','','publish','closed','open','','new-album-voices-out-there-from-the-caseworker-now-available','','','2016-02-03 16:16:23','2016-02-03 08:16:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7318',0,'post','',0),(7332,1,'2013-10-24 15:21:22','2013-10-24 15:21:22','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Kramies - \'The Wooden Heart\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/wooden-ep_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />The lovely Norwegian blog Luna Kafe has once again given a bunch of love to some new Hidden Shoal releases. Kramies title track to his stunning new EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> and \'Dependence Day\' taken from [The] Caseworker\'s just released album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/voices-out-there\"><em>Voices Out There</em></a> have both been reviewed in the latest edition of <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon210/menu.php\">Luna Kafe</a>.  Here\'s some excerpts to get you started,\n\n<em>\"I will line up to check the album. \"Dependence Day\" is so distinct and focused, so intense and enigmatic it is just perfect guitar-pop melancholia. Sadness painted in bright colours.\"</em> - <strong>Luna Kafe on [The] Caseworker \'Dependence Day\'</strong>\n\n<em>\"a swaying, head-in-the-sun pop piece... it is a beautiful and magic/mystic song... pop music turned inside out\"</em> - <strong>Luna Kafe on Kramies \'The Wooden Heart\'</strong>\n\nHead to the <a href=\"http://agora.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to download both tracks for free and check out their fantastic respective releases.','Kramies and [The] Caseworker Reviewed at Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-and-the-caseworker-reviewed-at-luna-kafe','','','2016-02-03 16:16:23','2016-02-03 08:16:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7332',0,'post','',0),(7336,1,'2013-10-24 15:28:42','2013-10-24 15:28:42','\"Kramies\' \"The Wooden Heart\" is taken from a forthcoming EP of the same name, which features Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) and Todd Tobias (Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices producer) as producers. Everything with Lytle\'s signature, well.. I have to check it out. Even if he\'s not in on this title track.\n\nWe have checked out the Colorado-based, Dutch-American, dream-pop-singer-songwriter Kramies Windt earlier here at Luna K. His 2011 EP <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon187/usoh187.php\">The European</a> did get a thumbs up. \"The Wooden Heart\" a swaying, head-in-the-sun pop piece. Hidden Shoal use words like \'kaleidoscopic\', \'windswept grandeur\', \'emotional directness\', and further \'...widescreen pop vista that takes your breath away.\' Well, I saved my breath, but it is a beautiful and magic/mystic song. If speaking in film/photographic terms (from a technical angle) one can mind-screen some colour positive transparency images. Not that this is pop-psyhedelia. It\'s more like pop music turned inside out. In addition, it is good company and a fine teaser for the EP.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon210/usco210.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Luna Kafe</strong></a>','Kramies &#039;The Wooden Heart&#039; (Single) Reviewed at Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-single-reviewed-at-luna-kafe','','','2013-10-24 15:28:42','2013-10-24 15:28:42','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7336',0,'post','',0),(7339,1,'2013-10-24 15:31:07','2013-10-24 15:31:07','\"Ambient garage-dream poppers [The] Caseworker has got a new single ready, off their new album <i>Voices Out There</i> (to be released October 24th). The trio\'s new efforts are produced by Monte Vallier (Swell) and recorded at Neil Halstead\'s (Slowdive) UK studio.\n\nThe band was formed by Conor Devlin (vocals, guitar) and Eimer Devlin (vocals, bass), as a duo (in prior to Caseworker, they were <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon198/usca198c.php\">Half Film</a>), while drummer Will Waghorn joined in later when performing live wasn\'t a two-some job. Now producer Monte Vallier, was also no-board as an extra guitar player at the time. <i>Voices Out There</i> will be their fourth album, following <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon185/usca185c.php\">Letters From The Coast</a>. I\'m really looking forward to it because \"Dependence Day\" is a smashing, fabulous song! [The] Caseworker roam the lo-fi guitar-pop valley. I was just about to name-drop Flying Nun Records, and - Hey! - That is what\'s mentioned in the press material (<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,helv;\">\'...the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label - the perfect balance of drone and chime\'</span>). The guitars sparkle, the basslines is a comfortable mattress, and the drums and cymbals are clean and steady. On top, there is Devlin\'s voice - dark, rustic, sober, and quite fitting guidance for listening to the song.\n\nI will line up to check the album. \"Dependence Day\" is so distinct and focused, so intense and enigmatic it is just perfect guitar-pop melancholia. Sadness painted in bright colours.\"\n\n-<a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon210/usca210b.php\"><strong> Luna Kafe</strong></a>','[The] Caseworker &#039;Dependence Day&#039; Reviewed at Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-dependence-day-reviewed-at-luna-kafe','','','2013-10-24 15:31:07','2013-10-24 15:31:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7339',0,'post','',0),(7342,1,'2013-10-31 01:39:09','2013-10-31 01:39:09','<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/track/greasy-moon\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/greasy_MED.jpg\" alt=\"perth - \'Greasy Moon\'\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We\'re very excited to present the  second delicious taste of the forthcoming album from Australian experimental pop outfit <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/perthband\" target=\"_self\">perth</a>. ‘Greasy Moon’ is an echoing, disorientating, addictive stomp that offers a tantalising hit of the wonderful songcraft woven throughout new album  <em>What’s Your Utopia?</em>’s expansive, eclectic patchwork. As reassuring as it is creepy, as uplifting as it is doggedly despondent, ‘Greasy Moon’ exemplifies the perverse pleasures and ear-bending dichotomies perth draw upon for their sophomore album. Grab or stream the track below as well as previous single \'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\'.\r\n\r\n<strong>\'Greasy Moon\': </strong><a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-greasy-moon\" target=\"_self\">SoundCloud</a> + <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/track/greasy-moon\" target=\"_self\">Free Download</a>\r\n<strong>\'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\':</strong> <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-drank-and-kites-and\" target=\"_self\">SoundCloud</a> + <a href=\"https://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow\" target=\"_self\">Free Download</a>\r\n\r\n\'Greasy Moon\'  and \'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\' are lifted from perth\'s anticipated sophomore album <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em> out November 14th through Hidden Shoal.\r\n\r\n<em>“a record that has surpassed all expectation... combines elements of post-rock, electronica and psych, but this genre-collage never feels forced. Instead, it’s a well-constructed body of work that sounds more accomplished than any debut record I’ve heard in quite a while”</em> – <strong>Life is Noise on perth\'s debut album <em>Babes, Water, Waves</em></strong>\r\n\r\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117621372\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','\'Greasy Moon\' from perth - New Single!','','publish','closed','open','','greasy-moon-from-perth-new-single','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7342',0,'post','',0),(10158,1,'2014-08-01 02:43:56','2014-08-01 02:43:56','<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/track/greasy-moon\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/greasy_MED.jpg\" alt=\"perth - \'Greasy Moon\'\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We\'re very excited to present the  second delicious taste of the forthcoming album from Australian experimental pop outfit <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/perthband\" target=\"_self\">perth</a>. ‘Greasy Moon’ is an echoing, disorientating, addictive stomp that offers a tantalising hit of the wonderful songcraft woven throughout new album  <em>What’s Your Utopia?</em>’s expansive, eclectic patchwork. As reassuring as it is creepy, as uplifting as it is doggedly despondent, ‘Greasy Moon’ exemplifies the perverse pleasures and ear-bending dichotomies perth draw upon for their sophomore album. Grab or stream the track below as well as previous single \'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\'.\r\n\r\n<strong>\'Greasy Moon\': </strong><a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-greasy-moon\" target=\"_self\">SoundCloud</a> + <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/track/greasy-moon\" target=\"_self\">Free Download</a>\r\n<strong>\'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\':</strong> <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-drank-and-kites-and\" target=\"_self\">SoundCloud</a> + <a href=\"https://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/drank-and-kites-and-tomorrow\" target=\"_self\">Free Download</a>\r\n\r\n\'Greasy Moon\'  and \'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow\' are lifted from perth\'s anticipated sophomore album <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em> out November 14th through Hidden Shoal.\r\n\r\n<em>“a record that has surpassed all expectation... combines elements of post-rock, electronica and psych, but this genre-collage never feels forced. Instead, it’s a well-constructed body of work that sounds more accomplished than any debut record I’ve heard in quite a while”</em> – <strong>Life is Noise on perth\'s debut album <em>Babes, Water, Waves</em></strong>\r\n\r\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117621372\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','\'Greasy Moon\' from perth - New Single!','','inherit','closed','closed','','7342-revision-v1','','','2014-08-01 02:43:56','2014-08-01 02:43:56','',7342,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/7342-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(7354,1,'2013-11-01 08:08:16','2013-11-01 08:08:16','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/antonymes_new_album.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7355\" alt=\" There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/antonymes_new_album-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We\'re very excited to pass on news of a brand new album from the ever amazing Ian Hazeldine (aka Antonymes). His sublime new album, <em> There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay</em>, has just been released on the wonderful English label Hibernate and is available now as a beautifully packaged CD and in digital format from <a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/there-can-be-no-true-beauty-without-decay\" target=\"_blank\">Antonymes Bandcamp</a> site.\n\nIn late 2009 Antonymes released <em>Beauty Becomes the Enemy of the Future</em> on Cathedral Transmissions of which the CD is now unavailable. Since then he has revisited the album, which has culminated in this new release. Hazeldine\'s own reworkings are intertwined with those of friends Ian Hawgood, Isnaj Dui, Offthesky, Field Rotation, Wil Bolton, Spheruleus and James Banbury to create an album of captivating melancholy and beauty. The guest reworkings venture into other, darker territories, where one might be harder pressed to identify the original material.\n\nAntonymes fans can also expect a wonderful new album next year through Hidden Shoal as a follow up to the brilliant 2011 release<em> <a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</a></em>.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/112805181\" width=\"100%\" height=\"82\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n<strong>Antonymes - The End Of Everything -ii-</strong>\n\n&nbsp;','Stunning New Antonymes Album out on Hibernate','','publish','closed','open','','stunning-new-antonymes-album-out-on-hibernate','','','2016-02-03 13:41:23','2016-02-03 05:41:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7354',0,'post','',0),(7361,1,'2013-11-05 15:37:39','2013-11-05 15:37:39','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"The Wooden Heart\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/wooden-ep_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Kramies sublime new EP <em>The Wooden Heart</em>, which also features the talents of Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) and Todd Tobias, has just scooped a glowing review in the French zine <a href=\"http://www.popnews.com/popnews/kramies-the-wooden-heart-ep\" target=\"_blank\">PopNews</a>. Here\'s a taste,\n\n<em>\"Dutch-American songwriter based in Denver, Colorado, Kramies Windt is by far one of the best kept secrets in American indie -pop...  We \'re willing to bet that this five title EP will emerge from the shadows for good.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.popnews.com/popnews/kramies-the-wooden-heart-ep\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PopNews</strong></a>\n\n<em>The Wooden Heart</em> is available now in digital formats as well as a limited edition CD. Head to the Hidden Shoal Store for more details.','Glowing Review for Kramies New EP in PopNews','','publish','closed','open','','glowing-review-for-kramies-new-ep-in-popnews','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7361',0,'post','',0),(7366,1,'2013-11-06 04:44:37','2013-11-06 04:44:37','[Translated poorly from the French with the help of Google. Read the original French version <a href=\"http://www.popnews.com/popnews/kramies-the-wooden-heart-ep\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.]\n\n\"Dutch-American songwriter based in Denver, Colorado, Kramies Windt was far away one of the best kept secrets of American indie-pop. We\'re willing to bet that these six songs will emerge him from the shadows for good. It is first of all the name of  \"Wooden Heart EP\", which will be brought to our attention, published  by the Australian label Hidden Shoal Recordings. The next name is that of Jason Lytle, tormented soul of great Grandaddy. Not surprising, really, that the bearded genius of Modesto is felt concerned by Kramies songs. As Grandaddy (or it\'s leaders\'  solo work), Kramies operates in an in-between exciting, feet firmly rooted in the folk-rock land and floating in the heavens a melancholy pop and vaguely psychedelic mind. If it is first wrapped by an impeccable setting, with an electronic service of audio and vice versa, it is ultimately the incredible writing this dreamy pop-folk quality and air that holds the attention. The song \"Wooden Heart\", which has the good idea to remind our memory of the already forgotten The Earlies, making it the perfect demonstration gradually emerging from an introductory fog, aerial melody propels the song to heights once frequented by Mercury Rev. With Kramies, we now know that Colorado is best seen from above.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.popnews.com/popnews/kramies-the-wooden-heart-ep\" target=\"_blank\">PopNews</a>','Kramies &quot;Wooden Heart&quot; EP Reviewed in PopNews','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-wooden-heart-ep-reviewed-in-popnews','','','2013-11-06 04:44:37','2013-11-06 04:44:37','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7366',0,'post','',0),(7370,1,'2013-11-11 09:53:43','2013-11-11 09:53:43','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/WYU-Front-COVER.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7371\" alt=\"What\'s Your Utopia?\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/WYU-Front-COVER-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Exciting times my friends - <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a>\'s stunning sophomore album <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em>\" lands this Thursday! What better lead up than an <a href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/shows/drivetime/\" target=\"_blank\">RTRFM Drivetime Feature Album</a> slot all this week! Listen in via radio or <a href=\"http://rtrfm.com.au/mp3stream\" target=\"_blank\">stream</a> and hear album tracks before the release as well as being able to win a copy from 5-7pm (Perth time) each weekday!\n\nDon\'t forget to nab the first two singles from the album if you haven\'t already, available for free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117621372\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','PERTH&#039;s &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Is This Week&#039;s RTRFM DriveTime Feature Album!','','publish','closed','open','','perths-whats-your-utopia-is-this-weeks-rtrfm-drivetime-feature-album','','','2016-02-03 16:06:30','2016-02-03 08:06:30','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7370',0,'post','',0),(7374,1,'2013-11-13 05:25:21','2013-11-13 05:25:21','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"perth - \'Greasy Moon\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/greasy.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Only one sleep until <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a>\'s brilliant sophomore drops! While you wait check out these super lovely reviews for the band\'s latest single \'<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/track/greasy-moon\">Greasy Moon</a>\' from the wonderful <a href=\"http://www.cityandsound.com/tracks/perth-greasy-moon\" target=\"_blank\">City and Sound</a> and <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/perth/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sunday Experience</a> blogs,\n\n<em>\"Greasy Moon is the second single to be taken from perth\'s forthcoming sophomore album \'What\'s Your Utopia\'. It\'s a stompy psyche-pop affair dripping with reverb. In parts it glistens, and elsewhere it\'s swampy, playing like a delicious piece of audio acid. The deep vocals are reminiscent of The National\'s Matt Berninger, prompting some soothing melancholic reflection.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.cityandsound.com/tracks/perth-greasy-moon\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>City and Sound</strong></a>\n\n<em>\"Latest loveliness from Aussie dream studio Hidden Shoal sees the imminent arrival of the new perth single ‘greasy moon’. ripped from their forthcoming sophomore set ’what’s your utopia?’, ’greasy moon’ is a slow ice thawing slab of darkly unfurling majesty cradled amid a ghost light seasoning of subtle soft psyche strobes marooned in cool cold wave texturing and spectrally dappled and harnessed upon swathes of waxing and waning oceanic opines unto which a sense of a shadowy gravitas bleeds – best filed somewhere near the Church in terms of understated bruised beauty.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/perth/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Sunday Experience</strong></a>\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117621372\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','Review Love for PERTH&#039;s &#039;Greasy Moon&#039;','','publish','closed','open','','review-love-for-perths-greasy-moon','','','2016-02-03 16:06:31','2016-02-03 08:06:31','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7374',0,'post','',0),(7377,1,'2013-11-13 05:26:38','2013-11-13 05:26:38','<em>\"Greasy Moon is the second single to be taken from perth\'s forthcoming sophomore album \'What\'s Your Utopia\'. It\'s a stompy psyche-pop affair dripping with reverb. In parts it glistens, and elsewhere it\'s swampy, playing like a delicious piece of audio acid. The deep vocals are reminiscent of The National\'s Matt Berninger, prompting some soothing melancholic reflection.\"</em>\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.cityandsound.com/tracks/perth-greasy-moon\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>City and Sound</strong></a>','perth &#039;Greasy Moon&#039; Reviewed at City and Sound','','publish','closed','open','','perth-greasy-moon-reviewed-at-city-and-sound','','','2013-11-13 05:26:38','2013-11-13 05:26:38','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7377',0,'post','',0),(7379,1,'2013-11-13 05:27:42','2013-11-13 05:27:42','<em>\"Latest loveliness from Aussie dream studio Hidden Shoal sees the imminent arrival of the new perth single ‘greasy moon’. ripped from their forthcoming sophomore set ’what’s your utopia?’, ’greasy moon’ is a slow ice thawing slab of darkly unfurling majesty cradled amid a ghost light seasoning of subtle soft psyche strobes marooned in cool cold wave texturing and spectrally dappled and harnessed upon swathes of waxing and waning oceanic opines unto which a sense of a shadowy gravitas bleeds – best filed somewhere near the Church in terms of understated bruised beauty.\"</em>\n\n- <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/perth/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Sunday Experience</strong></a>','perth &#039;Greasy Moon&#039; Reviewed at The Sunday Experience','','publish','closed','open','','perth-greasy-moon-reviewed-at-the-sunday-experience','','','2013-11-13 05:27:42','2013-11-13 05:27:42','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7379',0,'post','',0),(7387,1,'2013-11-14 06:01:18','2013-11-14 06:01:18','<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/WYU_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We\'re incredibly excited to announce the release of the brilliant sophomore album from Australian experimental pop outfit <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\" target=\"_self\">perth</a>. On <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_self\"><em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em></a> the band manages to meld psychedelic pop, folk-laced electronica and shoegaze into a beautifully cohesive statement.\n\nSingle 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.\n\nThe album is available now in digital and limited edition CD formats from the <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_self\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. All CD sales come with an immediate download in either FLAC or MP3 format.\n<span> </span>\n<iframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/79301061\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>\n<a href=\"http://vimeo.com/79301061\">perth - \"What\'s Your Utopia?\" Album Trailer</a> from <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/hiddenshoal\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> on <a href=\"https://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.','PERTH &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Out Now (CD + Digital)','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-out-now-cd-digital','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7387',0,'post','',0),(7396,1,'2013-11-21 15:49:45','2013-11-21 15:49:45','<img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6961 alignleft\" alt=\"Kramies\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Kramies-2013-150x150.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"108\" />\n\nCheck out this <a href=\"http://backstagerider.com/2013/11/17/kramies/\" target=\"_blank\">fantastic feature</a> on <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\" target=\"_blank\">Kramies</a> over at <a href=\"http://backstagerider.com/2013/11/17/kramies/\" target=\"_blank\">The Backstage Rider</a>. The piece includes lovely acoustic video versions of \'The Wooden Heart\' and \'Sea Otter Cottage\' from his <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\" target=\"_blank\">sublime new EP </a>(featuring Jason Lytle).\n\nMore Kramies delights coming over the next few weeks so stay tuned!\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108752237\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\nK<strong>ramies - \'The Wooden Heart\'</strong>','Kramies Feature and Exclusive Live Videos at The Backstage Rider','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-feature-and-exclusive-live-videos-at-the-backstage-rider','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7396',0,'post','',0),(7403,1,'2013-11-22 03:36:04','2013-11-22 03:36:04','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Arc Iris\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/arciris_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Check out this <a href=\"http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/liam-singer-arc-iris\" target=\"_blank\">wonderful review</a> of Liam Singer\'s sublime new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a> over at <a href=\"http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/liam-singer-arc-iris\" target=\"_blank\">Tiny Mix Tapes</a>. Here\'s a taste to nudge you over there,\n\n<em>\"...Arc Iris is one of the best crafted records anyone, anywhere will release this year... This is a record for precious solitude without either preciousness or loneliness, which is as deft as all hell a thing to accomplish: is Liam Singer the Mahela Jayawardene of classical pop music? It’s big enough to fit inside and small enough to carry around.\"</em> - <strong>Alex Griffin, Tiny Mix Tapes</strong>\n\n<em>Arc Iris</em> is available is now in CD and Digital formats along with 3 free downloadable singles. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all details.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/101371984\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n<strong>Liam Singer - \'Disappear and Appear\'</strong>','Fantastic Review for Liam Singer&#039;s &quot;Arc Iris&quot; in Tiny Mix Tapes','','draft','closed','open','','fantastic-review-for-liam-singers-arc-iris-in-tiny-mix-tapes','','','2014-08-01 02:30:08','2014-08-01 02:30:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7403',0,'post','',0),(7410,1,'2013-11-22 03:38:19','2013-11-22 03:38:19','\"Consider the snowglobe. When you pick it up, you’re holding something that’s capable of conjuring absolutes of beauty, force, and fragility — I mean, shake it and a season just <i>happens</i> — but the snowglobe you tend to end up with is something like this. Somewhere between reality and the possibilities offered by this strange incandescent paperweight, kitsch and the desire to transform the transcendent into the ornamental (and eerily narcissistic) intervenes. And so it is with chamber pop. In this post-Sufjan age (in the years AS, for the calendar-minded of you), the idea of people working with a bunch of classically-trained players to make literate, ornate music has unfortunately taken on a pretty precious set of connotations through overuse and abuse; like, if you can get through the video for “16 Military Wives,” you’re on the wrong side of history, and I won’t even start on Patrick Watson. Even Sufjan h(H)imself, who made made the highpoint for fussy, anal whimsy, backed away from the idea. Like one of those ingenue female protagonists from a Belle and Sebastian song, he liberated everyone from their inhibitions, and everyone in turn got a little fucked over by the results. Yet, as ever, the antidote to diminishing returns in this kind of thing is subsuming everything to craft and integrity, and <i>Arc Iris</i> is one of the best crafted records anyone, anywhere will release this year.\n\nBased in Queens, Liam Singer has been around for a while, but <i>Arc Iris</i> smacks with the freshness of putting your head into the first ever grocery store refrigeration system, quietly stacking up a pile of minor miracles until the picture transcends the brushstrokes. Laboriously tinkered over with sideman par excellence Scott Solter, it’s a flowing suite of nocturnes, militaristic interludes, and eerie chamber torch ballads, lit by stunningly and delicately deployed woodwinds and keyboards in wandering and richly pained-over arrangements. This is a record for precious solitude without either preciousness or loneliness, which is as deft as all hell a thing to accomplish: is Liam Singer the Mahela Jayawardene of classical pop music? It’s big enough to fit inside and small enough to carry around.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/liam-singer-arc-iris\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alex Griffin, Tiny Mix Tapes</strong></a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; Reviewed at Tiny Mix Tapes','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-reviewed-at-tiny-mix-tapes','','','2013-11-22 03:38:19','2013-11-22 03:38:19','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7410',0,'post','',0),(7413,1,'2013-11-26 16:12:46','2013-11-26 16:12:46','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Kramies\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"76\" />We have a beautiful stripped back version of the sumptuous title track from Kramies new EP <em>The Wooden Heart </em>to share with you.  Recorded in a cabin in Ohio this wonderful acoustic rendition disrobes the original\'s shoegaze attire and leaves a stark, fragile yet gorgeous pop song in its place.\n\n<em>The Wooden Heart</em> EP from Colorado based Kramies features collaborations with Jason Lytle of Grandaddy and Robert Pollard co-conspirator and GBV producer Todd Tobias. It\'s a luscious and expansive 6 tracker that calls to mind Mercury Rev at their most reflective and Slowdive at their dreamiest. You can grab the original studio version of \'The Wooden Heart\' (track) as a free download and check out the rest of the EP at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/KxAnc3dj3b0?list=PLC331131EC8DC434C\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Live and Unplugged','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-live-and-unplugged','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7413',0,'post','',0),(7422,1,'2013-11-27 13:49:38','2013-11-27 13:49:38','Kramies scoops \"Pick of the Day\" for his stunning new EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> over at the wonderful <a href=\"http://blogadeedog.com/?p=5683\" target=\"_blank\">Blogadeedog</a>. <a href=\"http://blogadeedog.com/?p=5683\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out</a>!\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108752237\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Pick of the Day at Blogdeedog','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-pick-of-the-day-at-blogdeedog','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7422',0,'post','',0),(7425,1,'2013-11-27 14:05:57','2013-11-27 14:05:57','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/WYU_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Check out this fantastic <a href=\"http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/4628761\" target=\"_blank\">track by track</a> from the <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\">perth</a> boys over at <a href=\"http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/4628761\" target=\"_blank\">MESS+NOISE</a> on their latest slab of wonder, <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em></a>. Jack, Michael, Matt and Justin walk though out each track of this sublime album and give you the insides and outsides that brought it all together.\n\nDon\'t forget that the guys are readying for some <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/events/511243365641069/\" target=\"_blank\">gigs in Melbourne</a> as well as their big gig at <a href=\"http://slantedandenchanted.com.au/\" target=\"_blank\">Slanted and Enchanted</a> with the likes of Deerhunter, Metz, Cave, Fabulous Diamonds and many more wonderful bands.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119937300\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n<em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em> Album Trailer','PERTH &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Track by Track at Mess + Noise','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-track-by-track-at-mess-noise','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7425',0,'post','',0),(7433,1,'2013-11-28 08:58:42','2013-11-28 08:58:42','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Arc Iris\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/arciris_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Liam Singer\'s stunning <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a> album has been named as one of the best releases of 2013 by the ever wonderful <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/2013top10s.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a> magazine,\n\n<em>\"The chamber-pop artist\'s fourth full-length is a wonderful fourteen-song set that suggests Singer is eminently capable of creating a work as dynamic and memorable as John Adams\' I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (1995) and Philip Glass\'s Songs from Liquid Days (1986). Singer\'s exceptional command of melody, compositional form, and arrangement are on full display throughout his ravishing forty-three-minute song cycle.\"</em> - <a title=\"Textura\" href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/2013top10s.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Textura</strong></a>\n\nHead over to Textura to <a title=\"Textura\" href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/2013top10s.htm\" target=\"_blank\">read the full article</a> and get lost in some absolutely wonderful music that graced and impressed their ears this year. If you\'ve not already landed yourself a copy of  <em>Arc Iris </em>then head to the <a title=\"Arc Iris\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and grab this amazing album on CD or in digital format.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/82056685\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','Liam Singer&#039;s &quot;Arc Iris&quot; In Textura&#039;s Best of 2013 List','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singers-arc-iris-in-texturas-best-of-2013-list','','','2014-08-01 02:30:08','2014-08-01 02:30:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7433',0,'post','',0),(7437,1,'2013-11-29 03:19:26','2013-11-29 03:19:26','\"The chamber-pop artist\'s fourth full-length is a wonderful fourteen-song set that suggests Singer is eminently capable of creating a work as dynamic and memorable as John Adams\' <em>I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky </em> (1995) and Philip Glass\'s <em>Songs from Liquid Days </em> (1986). Singer\'s exceptional command of melody, compositional form, and arrangement are on full display throughout his ravishing forty-three-minute song cycle.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/2013top10s.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Number 7 in Textura\'s best albums of 2013 list</a>','Liam Singer &quot;Arc Iris&quot; - One of Textura&#039;s Top Albums of 2013','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-arc-iris-one-of-texturas-top-albums-of-2013','','','2013-11-29 03:19:26','2013-11-29 03:19:26','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7437',0,'post','',0),(7440,1,'2013-11-29 03:42:26','2013-11-29 03:42:26','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7014\" alt=\"Liam SInger\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Liam_Singer_2013-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We\'re excited to be able to share this beautiful new <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/80040589\" target=\"_blank\">music video</a> for Liam Singer\'s recent single \'<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=234\">Nine Ten</a>\'. Jason Bahling\'s kaleidoscopic video renders the single\'s hauntingly beautiful contours into vivid, ever-shifting visuals. Natural forms saturated in colour warp and bleed together, echoing Singer\'s lonely lyric alluding to lost childhood, a yearning for connection, and the redemptive powers of music. Simultaneously luminous and deeply shadowed, \'Nine Ten\'s visuals perfectly reflect the music\'s aching depths. The track is taken from Queens-based chamber-pop artist Liam Singer\'s latest album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\"><em>Arc Iris</em></a> and is available for free download. Head to the <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to grab the track and check out the album.\n\n<a title=\"Jason Bahling\" href=\"http://jasonbahling.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Bahling</a> is a videographer, colorist, and time based artist. His videos have shown nationally and internationally in numerous galleries, film festivals, and performances. He is also a founding partner of <a title=\"The Notion Collective\" href=\"http://notioncollective.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Notion Collective</a>, a conceptually focused art group that creates web art, public art, performance art, social practice art, video art, and installations.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/80040589\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>\n\n<a href=\"http://vimeo.com/80040589\">Liam Singer - \'Nine Ten\'</a>','Beautiful New Music Video For Liam Singer&#039;s &#039;Nine Ten&#039;','','draft','closed','open','','beautiful-new-music-video-for-liam-singers-nine-ten','','','2014-08-01 02:30:08','2014-08-01 02:30:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7440',0,'post','',0),(7452,1,'2013-12-03 08:10:38','2013-12-03 08:10:38','<a href=\"https://vimeo.com/80040589\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7443\" alt=\"\'Nine Ten\' Music Video Frame\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Nine-Ten-Frame-Grab-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>The awesome purveyor of all things good in new music, <a href=\"http://www.tometotheweathermachine.com/videodrones/2013/12/videodrone-liam-singer-nine-ten\" target=\"_blank\">Tome To The Weather Machine</a>, has just featured the brilliant <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/80040589\" target=\"_blank\">new music video</a> for Liam Singer\'s \'Nine Ten\' by <a href=\"http://jasonbahling.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Bahling</a>. Here\'s some of the lovely things they had to say,\n\n<em>\"There is a moment in this video by Jason Bahling that just explodes in color, shooting blues and green across (what should be) your fullscreen monitor in a startling blast of complimentary colors. This video is for Liam Singer\'s single off his newest album Arc Isis out on Hidden Shoal earlier this year. As far as these lyrical explorations into mood and color go, this one is the most breathtaking I have seen in quite awhile.\" </em><strong>- <a href=\"http://www.tometotheweathermachine.com/videodrones/2013/12/videodrone-liam-singer-nine-ten\" target=\"_blank\">Tome To The Weather Machine</a></strong>\n\nHead over to <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/80040589\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a> to watch the video in full HD and then freely download the track and check out Liam Singer\'s sublime album <em>Arc Iris</em> over at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=48\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.','Liam Singer&#039;s New Video for &#039;Nine Ten&#039; Featured at Tome To The Weather Machine','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singers-new-video-for-nine-ten-featured-at-tome-to-the-weather-machine','','','2014-08-01 02:30:08','2014-08-01 02:30:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7452',0,'post','',0),(7456,1,'2013-12-03 08:25:20','2013-12-03 08:25:20','perth\'s \'<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\">Greasy Moon</a>\' has just landed in at number 6 on the <a href=\"http://airit.org.au/airit/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">Amrap AIRIT Top Ten</a> \'Most Ordered For Airplay’ chart! Australian radio is soaking in the oozy, woozy, hazy pop wonder and loving it.\n\nIf you\'ve not landed yourself a copy of the band\'s superb sophomore album <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em> then <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">correct yourself immediately</a>!\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117621372\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','PERTH&#039;s &#039;Greasy Moon&#039; In AIRIT Top Ten Australian Radio Chart','','publish','closed','open','','perths-greasy-moon-in-airit-top-ten-australian-radio-chart','','','2016-02-03 16:06:15','2016-02-03 08:06:15','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7456',0,'post','',0),(7458,1,'2013-12-05 00:21:00','2013-12-05 00:21:00','<a href=\"https://vimeo.com/80872620\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-7466 alignright\" alt=\"Quantum Chronological\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Quantum-Still2.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"118\" /></a>We\'re excited to release a wonderful new music video for Australian experimental pop outfit <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a>. MS Paint artist James Spinks\' whimsical new <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/hiddenshoal/quantum\" target=\"_blank\">music video</a> for the track \'Quantum Chronological\' beautifully captures the song\'s skewed charm. The simple see-sawing guitar and Casiotone refrain is accompanied by spirraling coffee pots, flashing city lights and a dancing figure who sings along to some of the track\'s unearthly effects-warped vocals. It’s a beautiful marriage of lush, dreamy off-kilter pop and joyfully naive imagery. Check it out at <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/80872620\">Vimeo</a> or <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep6EpVZtJzE\">YouTube</a>.\n\nJames Spinks is a Melbourne-based digital artist originally from Perth (the place!), whose aesthetic is built around the use of his primary digital tool, MS Paint. You can view more of James\'s wonderful work over at his <a href=\"http://cloglot.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">blog</a>. \'Quantum Chronological\' is taken from perth\'s brilliant sophomore album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em></a>, out now through Hidden Shoal Recordings. Head to the <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to get yourself a copy on CD or in digital format and nab some free perth downloads while you\'re there!\n\n<iframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/80872620\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','Beautiful New Video for PERTH by MS Paint Artist James Spinks!','','publish','closed','open','','beautiful-new-video-for-perth-by-ms-paint-artist-james-spinks','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7458',0,'post','',0),(7490,1,'2013-12-06 05:32:06','2013-12-06 05:32:06','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Slow and Steady Winter\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/winter.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Check out this <a href=\"http://www.ambientexotica.com/ambrev288_slowdancingsociety_winter/\" target=\"_blank\">beautifully written review</a> of <em>The Slow and Steady Winter</em> by Slow Dancing Society at the wonderful <a href=\"http://www.ambientexotica.com/ambrev288_slowdancingsociety_winter/\" target=\"_blank\">AmbientExotica</a>. Lovely to see the album is still getting great press almost 7 years on!\n\n<em>\"One of Slow Dancing Society’s greatest compositions ever graces this particular album and scores the opening spot: The Early Stages Of Decline depicts a stupefyingly mellow winter dream and even outshines the sum of its parts. These parts are distinct yet well-known to the connoisseur of electronic music in general, not just to the follower of the Ambient genre.\" - </em><a href=\"http://www.ambientexotica.com/ambrev288_slowdancingsociety_winter/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AmbientExotica</strong></a><em>\n</em>\n\nIf you\'ve not yet soaked in this albums beauty then head to the <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/the-slow-and-steady-winter\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and get yourself a copy on CD or in digital format.\n\n&nbsp;','Slow Dancing Society&#039;s &quot;The Slow and Steady Winter&quot; Reviewed at AmbientExotica','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-societys-slow-and-steady-winter-reviewed-at-ambientexotica','','','2016-02-03 16:12:44','2016-02-03 08:12:44','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7490',0,'post','',0),(7494,1,'2013-12-06 05:35:12','2013-12-06 05:35:12','<em>\"The Slow And Steady Winter</em> is the second album by Spokane, Washington-based guitarist, synth tweaker and composer <strong>Drew Sullivan</strong> aka <strong>Slow Dancing Society</strong>, released in 2007 on the Australian <strong>Hidden Shoal</strong> <strong>Recordings</strong> and available to purchase at Bandcamp. Spanning eight tracks of expected coldness married with warm guitar emendments as well as the clever use of gray nothingness and multitudinous sustain phases, the sophomore album shows the artist’s Rock roots via classic drums and electric guitars, but moulds these ingredients into synth-fueled Drone structures. The guitars usually appear in unprocessed form, only amplified and augmented by hall and reverb effects, but there might well be instances where I mistake them for synthetic apparitions. <em>The Slow And Steady Winter</em> is an album I adore for one particular track, but embrace for various other reasons, one of them being the constant reciprocation between the textural timbres: glacial shards and icy particles meet nostalgic phantasms and eminently amicable sequences, thereby making the album much warmer and gentler than its grim title evocates. Besides, nothing can beat the power of nostalgia, no matter how petrifying it often is. The liner notes sum up the potentially conflictive forces of the album poignantly, stating that “in part it presents a much darker vision while still radiating an ineffable sense of humanity and heart.” Said darker vision does indeed inherit strong bonds of humanity and camaraderie, this is nowehere near <strong>Thomas Köner</strong>’s <em>Permafrost</em> (1993). Strong melodies and translucent ornaments transform the coldest of all seasons into a secure alcove filled with memories. The periphery has been described, now it is time to reach for the innermost core in the first artifact of AmbientExotica’s Winter Ambient Review Cycle of 2013.\n\nOne of Slow Dancing Society’s greatest compositions ever graces this particular album and scores the opening spot: <em>The Early Stages Of Decline</em> depicts a stupefyingly mellow winter dream and even outshines the sum of its parts. These parts are distinct yet well-known to the connoisseur of electronic music in general, not just to the follower of the Ambient genre. Grafting the stereotyped but ever-working arpeggio onto ambivalently thermal-glacial synth washes is but <em>one</em> feat. The other is the timbre Drew Sullivan creates, as the long track is a camouflaged Detroit anthem sans beats, very deep and profound, strikingly forlorn but never completely forsaken. The listener is encapsulated in epitheliums of shelter; abyssal organ-like basslines and aqueously bubbling formations traverse by ad infinitum. Contraventively legatofied Northern lights pierce their way through the dark-green circumambience charged with spectral exhalations and reverberated vesicles. <em>The Early Stages Of Decline</em> runs for over 15 minutes, but never feels dull, long-winded or overcrowded. One of my favorite Ambient tracks of all time and a feast during wintertime.\n\nThe follow up <em>Depths Of December</em> can only lose after such a magnificent monolith, but since it does many a thing quite differently, it is suitable and constitutive for the album. And depths we shall receive: bone-grinding buzzes, deep bass billows and static noise-infested service announcements ooze through the heavy low frequency moiré. Ophidian electric guitars rotate through the thick aura, only partially illumined by the crystalline polar light. Almost post-apocalyptic but strangely belly-massaging and therefore warming, <em>Depths Of December</em> feels like a microscopic view onto heavily pulsating interstices, a feat <strong>Chris Herbert</strong> achieved by similar means with songs like <em>Chlorophyll</em> or <em>Suashi</em> on his debut <em>Mezzotint</em> (2006). The title track <em>A Slow And Steady Winter</em> follows, only replacing the definite article of the album title with an indefinite one, quite an interesting twist, not just for grammar teachers but reviewers as well: this is just one winter as it can happen in many parts of the Northern hemisphere. Since this is also the first time Sullivan drops the term <em>winter</em> which was only hinted at previously, the arrangement of the layers sports particularly incisive and radiant chimes, mildly acidic guitar coils and a mellow multiplexion of their afterglow. Shuttling between delight, opaqueness and melancholia, it is the bursts of bliss which hijack the brain, letting the listener forget about the glacial constituents by only realizing the warmth of this piece.\n\nWith a track title such as <em>The Time We’ve Spent</em>, it is clear that the listening subject is now drowned in nostalgia, watching memory lanes unfold in front of the inner eye. And this is exactly what Slow Dancing Society is doing on this piece which I call a quintessential gem and harbinger of the, back then forthcoming, <em>Priest Lake Circa ’88</em> (2008). A Dream Rock physiognomy consisting of mellow-moist guitar complexions, vitreous organ drones and many a cleft to absorb the reverb galore, <em>The Time We’ve Spent</em> unites the nostalgic ardor of said album with deep beat structures. It is only that monotonous organ, the sizzling maracas, clinging hi-hats as well as the flute-oid New Age artifacts that hint at the state of winter rather than the sun-fueled paradise that is the pristine Priest Lake.\n\nWhereas <em>Never Ending</em> returns to Drone structures and glorifies this tendency with transfused pedal steel guitars as played by guitarist <strong>Craig Ferguson</strong>, cosmically oscillating synth spheres, ghostly hums in the distance and rapturous overtones awash with light, <em>Romantica</em> is a clear cut progressive piece of the bubbling kind, launching with footstep-accentuated dun-colored fir-green vaults, then moving over to luminescent guitar twangs until an exhilarative climax supercharged with guitar drones and adjacent licks is reached. It is said that <strong>Melissa Cusick</strong> provides vocals on this piece, and while I do not doubt her inclusion at all, it is clear that her voice is designedly and purposefully absorbed by the densely layered embroidery. <em>The Rest Of Our Lives</em> then functions as an unintended fugacious vestibule to the ever-glowing <em>Priest Lake</em> by presenting another Dream Rock-oriented arrangement of upfront guitars, classic drum kit rhythms, brazen stokehold vignettes and warm bass coatings, with the finale <em>February Sun</em> surprising with its 3/4 rhythm, aerose loftiness plus infinitesimal spring-compatible tone sequences on the guitar, and last but not least, an uplifting Pop structure of transformative strings which work as aural sunrays. And what a coincidence: these rays are the last thing one hears, and the first thing that is emitted by Drew Sullivan’s third album. That one is about a lake.\n\nIndeed, <em>The Slow And Steady Winter</em> is a properly paced hibernal album, but one with many an injected counterpoint. These create a winter which looses its threat and ice-cold impetus. The listener is never thrown into tempestuous blizzards, not even mildly freezing gales are wafting by. The only instances of coldness are the spheroidal crystals, chimes and bells as well as a definite state of yearning and longing, but all in all, Drew Sullivan unites his trademark Dream Rock aortas with his equally delicate synth drones. The opener <em>The Early Stages Of Decline</em> is one masterpiece to cherish, and even though its title is full of portent, the actual soundscape glows and gleams in green-bluish colors, shuttles between lachrymosity and threnody, fathoms polyhedron blebs akin to Detroit and an equally compatible tonality. I for one am glad that there are no beats involved and that the omnipresent fissures allow the sustain phases of the tones to reverberate. This particular piece towers above everything else that is on the album, it is by far my favorite piece by Slow Dancing Society during the colder season.\n\nThe remaining artifacts, however, are no embarrassing B-sides, but worship the embraceable soothingness of winter evenings. Even if this is clichéd at the end of the day, these pieces also foreshadow the phenomenal <em>Priest Lake Circa ’88</em> album which is, I have to admit, probably mentioned one too many times over the course of the review; Dream Rock artifacts such as <em>The Time We’ve Spent</em> and <em>The Rest Of Our Lives</em> sport syrupy titles, but impress with cavalcades of liquedous sinews and strings. The only instance where the album literally turns dark is invoked during <em>Depths Of December</em> with its sparse <em>polar</em>-oid ingredients. Sullivan showcases that crepuscular twilight can spawn warmth after all: despite the murkiness, the black bass runlets massage the soul, once proper equipment is used to experience it. <em>The Slow And Steady Winter</em> might be torn between Slow Dancing Society’s favor of rockier tunes and his endeavor of unchaining Drone susurrations par excellence in tandem with plinking particles, but it retains a strong cohesion and lives up to that certain Winter spirit.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.ambientexotica.com/ambrev288_slowdancingsociety_winter/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AmbientExotica</strong></a>','Slow Dancing Society &quot;The Slow and Steady Winter&quot; Reviewed at AmbientExotica','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-slow-and-steady-winter-reviewed-at-ambientexotica','','','2013-12-06 05:35:12','2013-12-06 05:35:12','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7494',0,'post','',0),(7513,1,'2013-12-11 09:04:53','2013-12-11 09:04:53','<a href=\"https://vimeo.com/80872620\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7466\" alt=\"Quantum Chronological\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Quantum-Still2.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"150\" /></a>The beautiful new <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/80872620\" target=\"_blank\">music video</a> for perth\'s \'Quantum Chronological\' has been receiving love on the internet (like so many lonely hearts). Here\'s a few nice grabs to get you in the mood,\n\n<em><strong>\"</strong>I’m not quite sure if it’s the slightly melancholy mood I’m in today or purely the magic of this beautiful track and captivating video but it’s been a really long time since I’ve been as touched by a music vid as I have been by Quantum Chronological from Perth band perth.\"</em> -<strong> <a href=\"http://7secondsofsound.com/post/69564396078/perth-quantum-chronological\" target=\"_blank\">7 Seconds of Sound</a></strong>\n\n<em>\"Oh wow. Sometimes a clip comes your way that just fucking blows you outta the park\"</em> - <a href=\"http://meandallmyfriends.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/perth/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Me and All My Friends</strong></a>\n\n\"...as far as film clips go, this accompaniment to “Quantum Chronological”, created by MS Paint artist James Spinks is going to take some beating.\" - <a href=\"http://lifeisnoise.com/2013/12/06/perth-quantum-chronological-film-clip/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Life is Noise</strong></a>\n\nIf you\'ve not already fallen for the charm of <a href=\"http://cloglot.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Spinks</a>\' beautiful music video then get some roses and head <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/80872620\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>. The track comes off perth\'s recently released sublime sophomore album <em><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\">What\'s Your Utopia?</a>.</em>','PERTH&#039;s Quantum Love','','publish','closed','open','','perths-quantum-love','','','2016-02-03 16:06:30','2016-02-03 08:06:30','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7513',0,'post','',0),(7516,1,'2013-12-11 09:07:16','2013-12-11 09:07:16','\"I’m not quite sure if it’s the slightly melancholy mood I’m in today or purely the magic of this beautiful track and captivating video but it’s been a really long time since I’ve been as touched by a music vid as I have been by <strong>Quantum Chronological</strong> from Perth band <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/perthband\" target=\"blank\">perth</a>.\n\nCreated in MS Paint by digital artist James Spinks, the video’s fanciful imagery perfectly captures the sweetness and charm of the track. In fact it encapsulates the entire concept of <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/album/whats-your-utopia/id744441594?uo=4&amp;at=10l73K\" target=\"blank\">What’s Your Utopia?</a>, the album that the track is taken off. The album is a tribute to the idea of a fond place and the video depicts some truly blissful places to be such as across the river from a brightly lit city, beside a campfire watching someone sing while a happy pot plant dances about and in a dark lounge room watching a fluorescent  rhino and emu walk past. Some really lovely childlike images all of which I’d be glad to see in my Utopia.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://7secondsofsound.com/post/69564396078/perth-quantum-chronological\"><strong>7 Seconds of Sound</strong></a>','perth &#039;Quantum Chronological&#039; Music Video Reviewed at 7 Seconds of Sound','','publish','closed','open','','perth-quantum-chronological-music-video-reviewed-at-7-seconds-of-sound','','','2013-12-11 09:07:16','2013-12-11 09:07:16','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7516',0,'post','',0),(7518,1,'2013-12-11 09:08:48','2013-12-11 09:08:48','\"Oh wow. Sometimes a clip comes your way that just fucking blows you outta the park.\n\n<a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/perthband\"><strong>perth</strong></a> are from Perth. They do some pretty nice subtle folktronica. Really kinda introspective, but really encompassing and luscious in the sound.  The clip for one of their latest offerings ‘Quantum Chronological’ is done in MS Paint, but is easily one of the most beautiful clips I’ve seen in a while.\"\n\n- <a href=\"Oh wow. Sometimes a clip comes your way that just fucking blows you outta the park.  perth are from Perth. They do some pretty nice subtle folktronica. Really kinda introspective, but really encompassing and luscious in the sound.  The clip for one of their latest offerings ‘Quantum Chronological’ is done in MS Paint, but is easily one of the most beautiful clips I’ve seen in a while.\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MAAMF</strong></a>','perth &#039;Quantum Chronological&#039; Music Video Reviewed at MAAMF','','publish','closed','open','','perth-quantum-chronological-music-video-reviewed-at-maamf','','','2013-12-11 09:08:48','2013-12-11 09:08:48','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7518',0,'post','',0),(7520,1,'2013-12-11 09:10:41','2013-12-11 09:10:41','\"There is a moment in this video by <a href=\"http://www.jasonbahling.com/\"><strong>Jason Bahling </strong></a>that just explodes in color, shooting blues and green across (what should be) your fullscreen monitor in a startling blast of complimentary colors. This video is for Liam Singer\'s single off his newest album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=235\"><em>Arc Isis</em></a> out on <strong><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/\">Hidden Shoal</a> </strong>earlier this year. As far as these lyrical explorations into mood and color go, this one is the most breathtaking I have seen in quite awhile.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.tometotheweathermachine.com/videodrones/2013/12/videodrone-liam-singer-nine-ten\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tome To The Weather Machine</strong></a>','Liam Singer &#039;Nine Ten&#039; Music Video Reviewed at Tome to the Weather Machine','','publish','closed','open','','liam-singer-nine-ten-music-video-reviewed-at-tome-to-the-weather-machine','','','2013-12-11 09:10:41','2013-12-11 09:10:41','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7520',0,'post','',0),(7524,1,'2013-12-11 09:17:53','2013-12-11 09:17:53','\"Have we mentioned how much we love <em>What’s Your Utopia</em>, the new record from Perth (the band, not the city)? Because we do. A lot. Anyway, as far as film clips go, this accompaniment to “Quantum Chronological”, created by MS Paint artist James Spinks is going to take some beating.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://lifeisnoise.com/2013/12/06/perth-quantum-chronological-film-clip/\" target=\"_blank\">Life is Noise</a>','perth &#039;Quantum Chronological&#039; Music Video Reviewed at Life is Noise','','publish','closed','open','','perth-quantum-chronological-music-video-reviewed-at-life-is-noise','','','2013-12-11 09:17:53','2013-12-11 09:17:53','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7524',0,'post','',0),(7526,1,'2013-12-12 09:22:49','2013-12-12 09:22:49','<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4F8vCH8MM\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7527\" alt=\"Kramies - Sea Otter Frame\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Kramies-Sea-Otter-Frame-Small.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>We\'re excited to present the hypnotic new video to <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a>\' track \'Sea Otter Cottage\', which features the production and instrumental talents of Jason Lytle (Grandaddy). As the track sways and swoons with an almost unbearable poignancy, the figure of Kramies blurs and multiplies, drenched in multi-coloured light, as the song is caressed by fuzz bass and gorgeous synth textures. Check the video out at <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/81500029\">Vimeo</a> or <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4F8vCH8MM\">Youtube</a>.\n\n\'Sea Otter Cottage\' is taken from Kramies acclaimed new EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a>, which features the production and instrumental talents of Jason Lytle of Grandaddy fame, along with the inimitable production and additional instrumentation of Robert Pollard co-conspirator Todd Tobias. The \'Sea Otter Cottage\' music video was produced by Hidden Shoal\'s Cam Merton with camera work by Jason Bump and lighting design by Alex Reshetniak.\n\n<iframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/81500029\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','New Music Video for Kramies&#039; (feat. Jason Lytle) &#039;Sea Otter Cottage&#039;','','publish','closed','open','','new-music-video-for-kramies-feat-jason-lytle-sea-otter-cottage','','','2016-02-03 15:47:05','2016-02-03 07:47:05','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7526',0,'post','',0),(7532,1,'2013-12-13 06:05:34','2013-12-13 06:05:34','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/WYU.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Check out this <a href=\"http://xpressmag.com.au/perth/\" target=\"_blank\">glowing review</a> of perth\'s stunning new album What\'s Your Utopia? in X-Press Magazine. Here\'s a taste before you head to <a href=\"http://xpressmag.com.au/perth/\" target=\"_blank\">X-Press</a>,\n\n<em>\"there is little doubt that Perth are going to be one of the most cinematic and calming bands to come from these parts.\"</em> - <strong>X-Press</strong>\n\nCheck out the album at the <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and don\'t forget to have a look at the amazing just released James Spinks <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep6EpVZtJzE\" target=\"_blank\">music video</a> for the album track \'Quantum Chronological\'.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119937300\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','perth&#039;s &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia Reviewed at X-Press Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','perths-whats-your-utopia-reviewed-at-x-press-magazine','','','2016-02-03 16:06:15','2016-02-03 08:06:15','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7532',0,'post','',0),(7536,1,'2013-12-13 06:09:51','2013-12-13 06:09:51','\"Songwriter, Michael Dolan, has teamed up with half of the members of Apricot Rail for his band, Perth. With such a pedigree, there is little doubt that Perth are going to be one of the most cinematic and calming bands to come from these parts. <i>What’s Your Utopia?</i> has a sense of the upbeat in its prevailing mood, even if it is not always reflected in its tempo.\n\nWhile not as word-shy as Apricot Rail, Perth still use vocals sparingly as a musical tool, but they are at their most prominent during <i>Greasy Moon</i>. It is not that Perth have nothing to say, or that they can’t hold a note, it is just there are no need for words when the music is as expressive as that found on <i>What’s Your Utopia?</i>\n\n<i>Old At Heart</i> has the slow burn that Múm have always used to great effect. The tune that is over well before acceptances has the sound of somewhere between living inside a video game and sitting in an oriental garden. Treading the lines between electronica and post-rock is an artform that Perth excels at without trying to be too clever or overblown.\n\nWhen Pavement sang <i>I Love Perth</i> all those years ago, they sure as hell weren’t wrong!\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://xpressmag.com.au/perth/\" target=\"_blank\">X-Press Magazine</a>','perth &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Reviewed at X-Press Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-reviewed-at-x-press-magazine','','','2013-12-13 06:09:51','2013-12-13 06:09:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7536',0,'post','',0),(7538,1,'2013-12-13 06:26:32','2013-12-13 06:26:32','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Kramies\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" width=\"94\" height=\"94\" />Following on from the beautiful film clip for the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a> track \'<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4F8vCH8MM\" target=\"_blank\">Sea Otter Cottage</a>\' the man himself has been interview for the wonderful <a href=\"http://sftbmusic.blogspot.com.au/?m=1\" target=\"_blank\">Seamstress for the Band</a> blog. Kramies talks about the ideas behind his music, performing, his upcoming collaboration of Grant Wilson from the Ghost Hunters tv show and much more. Read it all <a href=\"http://sftbmusic.blogspot.com.au/?m=1\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108752237\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n\n&nbsp;','Wonderful Kramies Interview at Seamstress For The Band','','publish','closed','open','','wonderful-kramies-interview-at-seamstress-for-the-band','','','2016-02-03 15:46:50','2016-02-03 07:46:50','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7538',0,'post','',0),(7543,1,'2013-12-13 16:01:36','2013-12-13 16:01:36','Kramies beautiful new song and music video, \'Sea Otter Cottage\', has been chosen as \"New Release of the Day\" at the excellent <a href=\"http://www.boxspeakermusic.com/2013/12/12/sea-otter-cottage-by-kramies-feat-jason-lytle-video/\">BoxSpeaker blog</a>. Here\'s a taste,\n\n<em>\"The type of sad song Sofia Coppola would use if she and Wes Anderson collaborated on a dark drama with grey washed out skies.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.boxspeakermusic.com/2013/12/12/sea-otter-cottage-by-kramies-feat-jason-lytle-video/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BoxSpeaker</strong></a>\n\nCheck the feature out at <a href=\"http://www.boxspeakermusic.com/2013/12/12/sea-otter-cottage-by-kramies-feat-jason-lytle-video/\" target=\"_blank\">BoxSpeaker </a>and check out the video for the track below.\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/-l4F8vCH8MM?rel=0\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','Kramies New Release of the Day at BoxSpeaker','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-new-release-of-the-day-at-boxspeaker','','','2016-02-03 15:46:50','2016-02-03 07:46:50','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7543',0,'post','',0),(7549,1,'2013-12-17 08:05:24','2013-12-17 08:05:24','\"...I say all this because via a face book activity posting we eyed this little darling. More associated with all things shoe gazed and dream popped, here’s a little off road detour into fragile ambient minimalism courtesy of Jumpel. Culled from their ’bloc4’ full length, ’pool’ is a divinely demurred slice of drift pop, bitter sweetly graceful and lonesome, this ice sculptured lovely navigates an as were neglected star zone wooing its voids in an somnambulant floorshow of serenely dinked vapour trails, utterly affectionate and elegiac in short.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/junpel/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Sunday Experience</strong></a>','Jumpel &#039;Pool&#039; Reviewed at The Sunday Experience','','publish','closed','open','','jumpel-pool-reviewed-at-the-sunday-experience','','','2013-12-17 08:05:24','2013-12-17 08:05:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7549',0,'post','',0),(7551,1,'2013-12-17 08:07:06','2013-12-17 08:07:06','\"Like the indie-rock greats, like The Mountain Goats or Beck, that shy away from the usual boring blathering that the genre usually resonates like a homeless stench, [The] Caseworker deviate from a cut-and-paste formula for great results. On their new album ‘Voices Out There’, you can expect introverted, personal lyrics crossed over with skyline hooks and melodies. I can’t quite tell if their music is catchy, but its certainly interesting. There are some points that are better to just quietly skip over, but for the most part, tracks such as ‘Dependance Day’ and ‘Notes From the Summer’ capture the listeners attention with a reason.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://ryansaar.com/2013/11/26/rock-album-reviews-pt-2-the-caseworker-brilliant-beast-crown-larks-through-a-glass-darkly-beast-flood/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Soundly Sounds</strong></a>','[The] Caseworker &quot;Voices Out There&quot; Reviewed at Soundly Sounds','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-voices-out-there-reviewed-at-soundly-sounds','','','2013-12-17 08:07:06','2013-12-17 08:07:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7551',0,'post','',0),(7556,1,'2013-12-17 08:39:53','2013-12-17 08:39:53','\"Colorado based artist KRAMIES returns with the beautifully moving “Wooden Heart” EP for the Australian indie label Hidden Shoal Recordings.  With a running time of twenty-three minutes, the six tracked journey is filled with enough sincerity and inspiration to last for days.\"\n\n- <a href=\"Colorado based artist KRAMIES returns with the beautifully moving “Wooden Heart” EP for the Australian indie label Hidden Shoal Recordings.  With a running time of twenty-three minutes, the six tracked journey is filled with enough sincerity and inspiration to last for days.\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BlogDeeDog</strong></a>','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Pick of the Day at BlogDeeDog','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-pick-of-the-day-at-blogdeedog-2','','','2013-12-17 08:39:53','2013-12-17 08:39:53','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7556',0,'post','',0),(7559,1,'2013-12-17 08:50:28','2013-12-17 08:50:28','\"New release of the day: The video for “Sea Otter Cottage” by Kramies (featuring Jason Lytle). Colorado-based Kramies stands on the shoulders of indie rock giants Guided by Voices and Grandady, with tracks like “Sea Otter Cottage” that mixes a beginning of eerie synths with 2007-indie-esque dragged out strums and a slow march of piano notes and percussions that build up. The type of sad song Sofia Coppola would use if she and Wes Anderson collaborated on a dark drama with grey washed out skies.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.boxspeakermusic.com/2013/12/12/sea-otter-cottage-by-kramies-feat-jason-lytle-video/\" target=\"_blank\">BoxSpeaker Music</a>','Kramies &#039; Sea Otter Cottage&#039; Release of the Day at BoxSpeaker Music','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-sea-otter-cottage-reviewed-at-boxspeaker-music','','','2013-12-17 08:50:28','2013-12-17 08:50:28','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7559',0,'post','',0),(7563,1,'2014-01-13 07:51:28','2014-01-13 07:51:28','After a lovely and slightly extended break we are back! Hope 2014 has started swimmingly for everyone and continues that way. We have a whole bunch of wonderful music for you this year, some of it coming out very soon. We\'ll be a tease and leave the details for another post. Before we skip to the future though we still have to catch up on the past! There was a number of lovely reviews, posts and general loving posted over the xmas and end of year break for some of our recent releases and we\'ll be posting those up this week for your reading pleasure.\n\nHad to get this first post up to get the rust out so excuse its lack of any real information! In an attempt to gloss over this fact we\'ll leave you with a playlist of over 4 hours of Hidden Shoal gems...\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"300\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLC2BB82525CCBFF47\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>','Happy 2014!','','publish','closed','open','','happy-2014','','','2014-01-13 07:51:28','2014-01-13 07:51:28','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7563',0,'post','',0),(7570,1,'2014-01-15 08:20:43','2014-01-15 08:20:43','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/wooden-ep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /></a>Here begins the xmas break reviews catch up! First up some love from the wonderful SoundlySounds blog for Kramies latest single, \'<a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\">Sea Otter Cottage</a>\', and perth\'s sophomore album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em></a><em> .</em>There\'s a taste below before checking out the full Kramies review <a href=\"http://ryansaar.com/2013/12/30/videos-scott-charlenes-wedding-oscar-key-sung-jon-hopkins-worlds-end-press-ariel-pink-sky-ferreira-kramies/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> and the perth review <a href=\"http://ryansaar.com/2014/01/10/album-review-s-the-noise-figures-no-monster-club-the-perms-perth-cvm/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\r\n\r\n<em>\"And finally, ‘Sea Otter Cottage’. This one is a tad quieter and less vibrant than the previous entries, but no less amazing. Kramies bring the melancholy poetry hard and fast on their drooping miser ‘Sea Otter Cottage’. Every time you think the track’s about to fall, it is suddenly picked up by some new instrument, like macabre organ chords or vaudevillian guitar. Perhaps its the influence of Jason Lytle of Grandaddy fame that muddles and murkies their sound, but it comes off fantastically.\"</em> - <strong>SoundlySounds on Kramies \'Sea Otter Cottage\'</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"From start to finish, the whole thing reeks of being amazingly talented. Fuck this Arcade Fire bullshit, if you want some indie music that’s tied down solidly with electronic pulses, listen to perth.\" - </em><strong>SoundlySounds on perth\'s <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Kramies and perth Reviews at Soundly Sounds','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-and-perth-reviews-at-soundly-sounds','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7570',0,'post','',0),(9890,1,'2014-08-01 01:54:07','2014-08-01 01:54:07','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/wooden-ep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /></a>Here begins the xmas break reviews catch up! First up some love from the wonderful SoundlySounds blog for Kramies latest single, \'<a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\">Sea Otter Cottage</a>\', and perth\'s sophomore album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em></a><em> .</em>There\'s a taste below before checking out the full Kramies review <a href=\"http://ryansaar.com/2013/12/30/videos-scott-charlenes-wedding-oscar-key-sung-jon-hopkins-worlds-end-press-ariel-pink-sky-ferreira-kramies/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> and the perth review <a href=\"http://ryansaar.com/2014/01/10/album-review-s-the-noise-figures-no-monster-club-the-perms-perth-cvm/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\r\n\r\n<em>\"And finally, ‘Sea Otter Cottage’. This one is a tad quieter and less vibrant than the previous entries, but no less amazing. Kramies bring the melancholy poetry hard and fast on their drooping miser ‘Sea Otter Cottage’. Every time you think the track’s about to fall, it is suddenly picked up by some new instrument, like macabre organ chords or vaudevillian guitar. Perhaps its the influence of Jason Lytle of Grandaddy fame that muddles and murkies their sound, but it comes off fantastically.\"</em> - <strong>SoundlySounds on Kramies \'Sea Otter Cottage\'</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"From start to finish, the whole thing reeks of being amazingly talented. Fuck this Arcade Fire bullshit, if you want some indie music that’s tied down solidly with electronic pulses, listen to perth.\" - </em><strong>SoundlySounds on perth\'s <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Kramies and perth Reviews at Soundly Sounds','','inherit','closed','closed','','7570-revision-v1','','','2014-08-01 01:54:07','2014-08-01 01:54:07','',7570,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/7570-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(7572,1,'2014-01-15 08:22:12','2014-01-15 08:22:12','\"And finally, ‘Sea Otter Cottage’. This one is a tad quieter and less vibrant than the previous entries, but no less amazing. Kramies bring the melancholy poetry hard and fast on their drooping miser ‘Sea Otter Cottage’. Every time you think the track’s about to fall, it is suddenly picked up by some new instrument, like macabre organ chords or vaudevillian guitar. Perhaps its the influence of Jason Lytle of Grandaddy fame that muddles and murkies their sound, but it comes off fantastically.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://ryansaar.com/2013/12/30/videos-scott-charlenes-wedding-oscar-key-sung-jon-hopkins-worlds-end-press-ariel-pink-sky-ferreira-kramies/http://\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SoundlySounds</strong></a>','Kramies &#039;Sea Otter Cottage&#039; Reviewed at SoundlySounds','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-sea-otter-cottage-reviewed-at-soundlysounds','','','2014-01-15 08:22:12','2014-01-15 08:22:12','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7572',0,'post','',0),(7574,1,'2014-01-15 08:23:41','2014-01-15 08:23:41','\"I remember playing <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-drank-and-kites-and\" target=\"_blank\">‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow’</a> from the band perth (with a lower case ‘p’ nonetheless, just to fuck over grammar Nazi’s. You’re move ∆lt-j) on the radio the other day and simply falling in love with it. Smooth, textured and simply loving electronica/psych music with a little bit extra to it, some meat that I couldn’t quite figure out no matter how much I chewed.All up, its better just to swallow it rather than ponder on the obscure ‘it’ factor that makes perth so goddamn delicious to listen to. It switches effortlessly between a bunch of genres, but always treads lovingly on the path of indie electronic music. If Four Tet were to swallow a bunch of Toro Y Moi bleach and overdose on some Washed Out pills, you’d get the sort of disturbed, tranquil and gorgeous feel of perth’s ‘What’s Your Utopia?’ album. From start to finish, the whole thing reeks of being amazingly talented. Fuck this Arcade Fire bullshit, if you want some indie music that’s tied down solidly with electronic pulses, listen to perth.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://ryansaar.com/2014/01/10/album-review-s-the-noise-figures-no-monster-club-the-perms-perth-cvm/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SoundlySounds</strong></a>','perth &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Reviewed at SoundlySounds','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-reviewed-at-soundlysounds','','','2014-01-15 08:23:41','2014-01-15 08:23:41','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7574',0,'post','',0),(7576,1,'2014-01-16 14:35:53','2014-01-16 14:35:53','\"Australian experimental pop outfit perth looks both backwards and forwards on its sophomore album <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em>, a satisfying, forty-three-minute follow-up to 2012\'s <em>Babes, Water, Waves</em>. While echoes of earlier bands occasionally surface in the band\'s vocal and instrumental pieces, perth\'s music never comes across as a lame retrograde exercise. Instead, the group (which pairs Apricot Rail members Matthew Saville, Justin Manzano, and Jack Quirk with songwriter Michael Dolan) draws upon the past as a means by which to forge a contemporary identity it can call its own.\n\nThe trippy quality of perth\'s sound comes to the forefront the moment the vocals appear in “Drank and Kites and Tomorrow.” More buried within the mix than placed out front, the singing acts as merely one pop component of many within the band\'s murky mix of analog and electronic sounds rather than as the customary lead element. There\'s a woozy quality to perth\'s sound, too, which comes through loud and clear in the psychedelic-pop setting “The Quantum Chronological.” The inclusion of vibes in “Saw Promenade” suggests a connection between perth and Stereolab, a parallel that\'s intensified by the dreamy, ‘60s-styled aroma given off by a song that\'s as appealing for its languorous lilt as for that dreamlike vibe. “Lazy Boy,” on the other hand, oozes a whiff of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd in its melding of analog psychedelia and shimmering vocal-based songcraft.\n\nPerth\'s heavy side comes to the fore in the tripped-out, slow-motion stomp of “Greasy Moon,” and its penchant for woozy melodies is well-accounted for in the closing “Viewmaster,” which boosts its stripped-down arrangement with a haunting vocal line that would do Donovan proud (“Are you lonely? I\'m sinking quiet slowly / And there\'s nothing in me but you”). On the instrumental front, “Old at Heart” initially serenades the listener with an arrangement heavy on synthesizers and mallet percussion accents before segueing into a robust post-rock-styled back-half, while the breezy “Sunday Stroll” makes good on its name with a quietly radiant techno-driven track that evokes the image of someone basking in the sun during a carefree summer walk.\n\nIt\'s not easy to establish a distinctive sound with the legacies of so many influential pop and rock acts always looming in the background, but perth makes a pretty good stab at doing exactly that. As impressive is how effectively the band integrates its many disparate strands into a coherent whole that\'s both experimental and accessible.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/perth_whatsutopia.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Textura</strong></a>','perth &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Reviewed at Textura','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-reviewed-at-textura','','','2014-01-16 14:35:53','2014-01-16 14:35:53','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7576',0,'post','',0),(7578,1,'2014-01-16 14:39:14','2014-01-16 14:39:14','\"Why the lower case ‘p’? perth are actually from the Australian city of Perth, several of them are sometime members of Apricot Rail, and their nearest neighbors are Tame Impala, of whom many of you will have heard. But why, as another reviewer has pointed out, are perth so evasive regarding their online presence? Type the word ‘perth’ into your search engine and prepare for a lengthy afternoon’s browsing, unless you already know the album title or that <em>What’s Your Utopia?</em> is released on the Hidden Shoal label, also from Perth, which is perhaps Australia’s most eclectic music label and whose releases are almost always worth a proper listen.\n\nI won’t ask that question again. <em>What’s Your Utopia?</em> is, as Hidden Shoal releases go, a work of some kind of stellar genius (which you may take to mean that it’s really quite good). From the garbled electronic intro of “Collapsible Lung” to the fade-out piano chords of “Wirp”, this is an album of continuing progressions and occasionally spectacular soundscapes. There are obvious influences in parts of perth’s musicianship but just when you think they’re skilfully eulogising one or more 80s/90s Coldwave predecessors, their music takes turns away from more obvious tracks and zones off into somewhere that only very experienced and adept musicians can know about. If <em>What’s Your Utopia?</em> is a summation of the best of the band’s combined album collections, then it is possibly only the first instalment in something significantly larger than a trilogy.\n\nSo, as first track “Collapsible Lung” shrugs off its squalling introduction and reveals itself a purposeful electro fuelled mini epic, it’s almost immediately difficult to see exactly where perth can take it from their opening. “Drank and Kites and Tomorrow” answers with a song that while it perhaps nods deliberately towards towards the albums opener is given an added impetus by perth’s use of live percussion, which rattles conspicuously across the synths and sequencing. The pace slows perceptibly with the marimba led sway of “Greasy Moon” and let no one underestimate them, small ‘p’ or not, perth are possessed of some rare abilities and if “Quantum Chronological” reveals part of their more experimental side, it’s also a track which you may wish lasted longer than its four or so minutes. As ‘What’s Your Utopia’ develops, perth bring us a collection of highly polished electronica tunes some of which they could develop into the expansive soundtracking that fires their collective imaginations. And they save us their best for the last track “Viewmaster”, a song that could function just as well as a guitar and vocal piece and that is effortlessly developed into a near bewildering array of sequenced effects almost imperceptibly, leaving the listener wondering exactly how do perth think a guitar should sound. Certainly, their imaginations threaten to outgrow their technology on more than one occasion.\n\n<em>What’s Your Utopia?</em> isn’t really a first album. What it is, is the summation of the work of some of the remarkable talents working in and around the Hidden Shoal label, and as final and unnanounced instrumental piece ‘Wirp’ fades out it’s worth reflecting that these are musicians that, while they work in more than one format, are somewhere at the peak of their abilities and are pushing their instrumentation very nearly to its limits. The result is a consistently listenable album that’s every bit as ingenious as the music of My Majestic Star, City Of Satellites, Gilded and some other of the albums that Hidden Shoal has released in its eight year history. Which is to say it is an accomplished and very near superb 40 or so minutes and you really should hear it.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2013/12/perth-whats-your-utopia/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DOA</strong></a>','perth &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Reviewed at DOA','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-reviewed-at-doa','','','2014-01-16 14:39:14','2014-01-16 14:39:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7578',0,'post','',0),(7580,1,'2014-01-16 14:58:36','2014-01-16 14:58:36','<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/WYU_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>perth\'s stunning sophomore album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em></a> continues to land brilliant reviews. The latest round of love comes via the excellent DOA and Textura publications. Check out an excerpt below and read the full album reviews at the <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2013/12/perth-whats-your-utopia/\" target=\"_blank\">DOA</a> and <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/perth_whatsutopia.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a> sites,\n\n<em>\"... it’s worth reflecting that these are musicians that, while they work in more than one format, are somewhere at the peak of their abilities and are pushing their instrumentation very nearly to its limits. The result is a consistently listenable album that’s every bit as ingenious as the music of My Majestic Star, City Of Satellites, Gilded and some other of the albums that Hidden Shoal has released in its eight year history. Which is to say it is an accomplished and very near superb 40 or so minutes and you really should hear it.\"</em> - <strong><a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2013/12/perth-whats-your-utopia/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Gordon, DOA</a></strong>\n\n<em>What\'s Your Utopia? </em>is available now in CD and digital formats from the <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119937300\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','Glowing Album Reviews for PERTH at DOA and Textura','','publish','closed','open','','glowing-album-reviews-for-perth-at-doa-and-textura','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7580',0,'post','',0),(7587,1,'2014-01-17 08:23:42','2014-01-17 08:23:42','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Kramies\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\" /></a>Lots of lovely things have been happening for Kramies utterly beautiful new EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> over the last month so expect a bunch more posts like these as we catch up. First off we head to the excellent radio show <a href=\"http://thecoloradosound.com/2013/12/31/colorado-best-of-2013/\" target=\"_blank\">The Colorado Sound</a> where <em>The Wooden Heart</em> was voted by fans as the number 1 album of 2013. Now there is a show that has listeners with taste!','&quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Voted #1 Release of 2013 at The Colorado Sound!','','publish','closed','open','','the-wooden-heart-voted-1-release-of-2013-at-the-colorado-sound','','','2016-02-03 15:46:50','2016-02-03 07:46:50','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7587',0,'post','',0),(7592,1,'2014-01-17 08:38:34','2014-01-17 08:38:34','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"What\'s Your Utopia?\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/WYU.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />perth\'s <em><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\">What\'s Your Utopia?</a></em> magnetism continues  to gather strength<em>. </em>The sophomore album<em> </em>was just included in the best of 2013 roundup over at the always excellent <a href=\"http://whothehell.net/archives/22466\" target=\"_blank\">Who The Hell</a> blog and has also received a lovely review at another great blog, <a href=\"http://www.cityandsound.com/reviews/perth-whats-your-utopia\" target=\"_blank\">City and Sound</a>.\n\n<em>\"Every part of this record coalesces together strangely, perfectly. And even among the towering, cinematic instrumentals – perth still craft a weird sense of sparseness that makes this sound like a bunch of opiate-swilling krautrock kings running down a sand dune. One of the guys seems to have just discovered a drum and bass sample. In this context anyway, I’m totally alright with that.\"</em> - <strong>Who The Hell</strong>\n\nIf you\'ve heard it then you know why, if you\'ve not then lose yourself in the stream below then head <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> to get yourself a copy.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/112338352\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"82\" iframe=\"true\" /]','&quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Reviewed at City and Sound &amp; Best of 2013 at Who The Hell','','publish','closed','open','','whats-your-utopia-reviewed-at-city-and-sound-best-of-2013','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7592',0,'post','',0),(7595,1,'2014-01-17 08:41:40','2014-01-17 08:41:40','\"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. One of the guys seems to have just discovered a drum and bass sample. In this context anyway, I’m totally alright with that.\"\n\n- <strong>W<a href=\"http://whothehell.net/archives/22466\" target=\"_blank\">ho The Hell</a> (Best Releases of 2013)</strong>','perth &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Best of 2013 at Who The Hell','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-best-of-2013-at-who-the-hell','','','2014-01-17 08:41:40','2014-01-17 08:41:40','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7595',0,'post','',0),(7598,1,'2014-01-17 08:44:24','2014-01-17 08:44:24','\"On \'What\'s Your Utopia?\', perth present the listener with a ticket to simply, escape. Album opener <i>Drank and Kites and Tomorrow</i> is Alice\'s wide eyed descent down the rabbit hole. It\'s an exciting introduction to the childlike wonder that lay ahead.\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n\nSongwriter Michael Dolan, together with three members of Apricot Rail (Matthew Saville, Justin Manzano and Jack Quirk) make up perth, a Western Australia based electronic outfit spelt with a lower case p. \'What\'s Your Utopia?\' is an organically fruitful progression from their 2012 debut album, \'Babes, Water, Waves\'. Post-rock influences are found throughout, <i>Old At Heart</i> is a joyous collision of Mogwai and Animal Collective, whilst ten minute finale, <i>Viewmaster</i> is split between dreamy folk and a deathly end-of-the-universe wail to fittingly end the ten track odyssey.\n\nThe cover artwork reflects its contents wonderfully well. \'What\'s Your Utopia?\' captures the serenity of dreaming, the staring out of a moving window daze, imagining your perfect world.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.cityandsound.com/reviews/perth-whats-your-utopia\" target=\"_blank\">City and Sound</a>\n\n</div>','perth &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Reviewed at City and Sound','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-reviewed-at-city-and-sound','','','2014-01-17 08:44:24','2014-01-17 08:44:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7598',0,'post','',0),(7601,1,'2014-01-17 08:48:53','2014-01-17 08:48:53','\"- Perth band, er, perth, are not just a presumptuously ungoogleable band name, but an unusual combination of things. Echoing reverb smothers synthesisers and a variety of instruments, creating thickly layered sounds unified by a fairly left-field, twee-pop sensibility. It’s similar to a lot of things, but not really, definitively, the same as anything else and there’s not much music you can say that about these days.\n\nTo give you an idea of what I’m saying, if you go and search around the interwebs for what people have had to say about this album’s advance single, Drank And Kites And Tomorrow, its pleasantly hypnotic bopping gets compared to a different band by everyone who hears it: Neu!, Spiritualized, Caribou, Animal Collective, Fourtet. Ok, so there’s certain aural themes running through that collection of pleasantly, semi-electronic experimenters, but one of perth’s strengths is that they manage to combine elements of all of them in such a way that each has their own moment, rising to the front of the mix in an unexpected but not unpleasant manner. It’s as though you tossed every single one of their influences into a kaleidoscope.\n\nAnother band that perth are undoubtedly channeling is Apricot Rail, and they must be a strong source of the almost overwhelming sensation given off by the band, that everything’s gonna be OK. It just shimmers off their music in congenially psychedelic waves. perth shares three members with Apricot Rail and you can hear that happily good-natured feeling that they always brought to AR’s amiable brand of post-rock. At their best it set them apart from all the other epic and apocalyptic post-rocking types. Sometimes though it just meandered along until it became a bit dull.\n\nperth, if only from the breadth of their influences, are never in danger of being dull. Space rock, psych, prog, post-rock, art-pop, ambient, kraut, synth-rock-pop, even dance (listen hard, you’ll hear some drum’n’bass in there), all of these are jostling for place, in the most gentlemanly and unthreatening manner imaginable, of course.\n\nLike an e’d up bush doof, when perth ask What’s Your Utopia? they have a wide range of their own for you to choose from, and you may lose days exploring the options. When it’s all as inviting as this record is, why not?\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/reviews/albums/perth-whats-your-utopia\" target=\"_blank\">4ZZZ</a>','perth &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Reviewed at 4ZZZ','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-reviewed-at-4zzz','','','2014-01-17 08:48:53','2014-01-17 08:48:53','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7601',0,'post','',0),(7603,1,'2014-01-19 23:54:56','2014-01-19 23:54:56','Kramies\' beguiling new EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> continues to scoop wonderful press. <a href=\"http://emergingindiebands.com/kramies-avant-garde/\" target=\"_blank\">Emerging Indie Bands</a> recently gave the EP a glowing review and <a href=\"http://fadedarrow.com/post/72260834097/video-kramies-sea-otter-cottage\" target=\"_blank\">Faded Arrow</a> poured love over Kramies latest single and music video \'Sea Otter Cottage\'.\n\n<em>\"Dutch-American singer <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies//\" target=\"_blank\">Kramies</a> recently released a video for the slow-burning “Sea Otter Cottage.” It’s a murky, mesmerizing song, drenched in synth textures and cloudy bass that invoke the image of a sinister storm on the horizon. This is dream pop with definite substance. The video is equally entrancing, as a blurred Kramies fades in and out of colored light.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://fadedarrow.com/post/72260834097/video-kramies-sea-otter-cottage\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Faded Arrow</strong></a>\n\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/-l4F8vCH8MM?list=PLC331131EC8DC434C\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','More Review Love for Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot;','','publish','closed','open','','more-review-love-for-kramies-the-wooden-heart','','','2016-02-03 15:46:50','2016-02-03 07:46:50','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7603',0,'post','',0),(7606,1,'2014-01-20 00:03:48','2014-01-20 00:03:48','\"Dutch-American singer <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies//\" target=\"_blank\">Kramies</a> recently released a video for the slow-burning “Sea Otter Cottage.” It’s a murky, mesmerizing song, drenched in synth textures and cloudy bass that invoke the image of a sinister storm on the horizon. This is dream pop with definite substance. The video is equally entrancing, as a blurred Kramies fades in and out of colored light. Make sure to check out his EP <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\" target=\"_blank\">The Wooden Heart</a>, out now on Hidden Shoal Recordings. \'Sea Otter Cottage\' also features production and instrumentation from musician <a href=\"http://jasonlytle.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Lytle</a>.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://fadedarrow.com/post/72260834097/video-kramies-sea-otter-cottage\" target=\"_blank\">Faded Arrow</a>','Kramies &#039;Sea Otter Cottage&#039; Reviewed at Faded Arrow','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-sea-otter-cottage-reviewed-at-faded-arrow','','','2014-01-20 00:03:48','2014-01-20 00:03:48','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7606',0,'post','',0),(7608,1,'2014-01-20 00:05:42','2014-01-20 00:05:42','\"Combining electronics and instrumental <em>Kramies</em> delivers a sound which washes over the ears like suds of soap. Somewhat experimental, the sounds are delivered within the edges of the envelope and traverse a path of connected points, allowing the listener to settle back and enjoy.\n\nThe fusion of synthesised sounds and acoustic guitar enables <em>Kramies</em> to deliver an out-put which has the listener holding on to the entrails to be buffeted in a combination of the cognizable and the futuristic. Whilst that may sound as-though it may be a self-indulgence the material offers more than self adulation as the ears are captivated by the constructs which offer familiarity and newness.\n\nThere is a reason why you read the website and it isn’t because I find the mainstream bands of tomorrow, rather ponder the musicians you may not otherwise hear. I thank you for allowing me to indulge your ears with music of the underground which adds a scintilla to the day and <em>Kramies</em> suit the brief like a well fitting glove. Ever to be obscure, but the world is a better place for it.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://emergingindiebands.com/kramies-avant-garde/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Emerging Indie Bands</strong></a>','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Reviewed at Emerging Indie Bands','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-reviewed-at-emerging-indie-bands','','','2014-01-20 00:05:42','2014-01-20 00:05:42','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7608',0,'post','',0),(7610,1,'2014-01-20 07:18:11','2014-01-20 07:18:11','<a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Voices Out There\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/voices-album_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>One of our favourite US radio stations <a href=\"http://kzsu.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">KZSU</a> has just posted two lovely DJ reviews for the latest album from <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\">[The] Caseworker</a> and the new EP from <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a>,\n\n<em>\"The Caseworker is a SF project led by Conor and Eímer Devlin, former members of the slowcore band Half Film. Shaped partially by Conor’s time in a hospital post-car-crash, this fourth album is immaculately crafted to create an overarching feeling of tranquil melancholy at the axis of guitar pop, slowcore, and shoegaze. Catchy and magnificent (and released by Hidden Shoal!).\"</em> - <a href=\"http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?s=byAlbumKey&amp;n=1048643&amp;q=&amp;action=search&amp;session=\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>KZSU on [The] Caseworker\'s <em>Voices Out There</em></strong><em></em></a>\n\n<em>\"New EP by this Colorado dream-pop artist (released by the great Hidden Shoal Recordings). This features Jason Lytle of Grandaddy and has the same grand, quirky melancholy as Lytle’s music. There’s a strong sense of anguish and yearning to this. Lovely.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?s=byAlbumKey&amp;n=1048654&amp;q=&amp;action=search&amp;session=\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>KZSU on Kramies\' <em>The Wooden Heart</em></strong></a>\n\nKZSU listeners can expect to hear lots of cuts from both these releases spinning on the radio and should be keeping their eyes on the charts as well!\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/107610920\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','KZSU Love for [The] Caseworker and Kramies','','publish','closed','open','','kzsu-love-for-the-caseworker-and-kramies','','','2016-02-03 16:16:23','2016-02-03 08:16:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7610',0,'post','',0),(7612,1,'2014-01-20 07:20:36','2014-01-20 07:20:36','“The Caseworker is a SF project led by Conor and Eímer Devlin, former members of the slowcore band Half Film. Shaped partially by Conor’s time in a hospital post-car-crash, this fourth album is immaculately crafted to create an overarching feeling of tranquil melancholy at the axis of guitar pop, slowcore, and shoegaze. Catchy and magnificent (and released by Hidden Shoal!).”\n\n– <a href=\"http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?s=byAlbumKey&amp;n=1048643&amp;q=&amp;action=search&amp;session=\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>KZSU<em></em></strong></a>','[The] Caseworker &quot;Voices Out There&quot; Reviewed at KZSU','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-voices-out-there-reviewed-at-kzsu','','','2014-01-20 07:20:36','2014-01-20 07:20:36','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7612',0,'post','',0),(7614,1,'2014-01-20 07:23:10','2014-01-20 07:23:10','“New EP by this Colorado dream-pop artist (released by the great Hidden Shoal Recordings). This features Jason Lytle of Grandaddy and has the same grand, quirky melancholy as Lytle’s music. There’s a strong sense of anguish and yearning to this. Lovely.”\n\n– <a href=\"http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?s=byAlbumKey&amp;n=1048654&amp;q=&amp;action=search&amp;session=\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>KZSU</strong></a><strong><em></em></strong>','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Reviewed at KZSU','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-reviewed-at-kzsu','','','2014-01-20 07:23:10','2014-01-20 07:23:10','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7614',0,'post','',0),(7616,1,'2014-01-20 08:02:01','2014-01-20 08:02:01','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Jumpel\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/jumpel2013-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We are still playing catch up with all the wonderful press that came in over the xmas break. Here is a lovely accolade for a brilliant release from a wonderful Polish zine. Lukasz Komla over at <a href=\"http://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2013/12/16/podsumowanie-2013-lukasz-komla/\" target=\"_blank\">Nowamuzyka</a> placed Jumpel\'s <a href=\"http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2\"><em>Bloc4</em></a> at number 7 in his best of 2013 list.\n\nHead <a href=\"http://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2013/12/16/podsumowanie-2013-lukasz-komla/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> to read the review in Polish (you made need a Polish friend or put up with Google\'s attempt at translation). Then head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to stream the album in full,  grab yourself a copy on CD or in digital formats and download some free singles.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/85898574\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','Jumpel&#039;s &quot;Bloc4&quot; In The Top Ten of 2013 at Nowamuzyka','','publish','closed','open','','jumpels-bloc4-in-the-top-ten-of-2013-at-nowamuzyka','','','2014-01-20 08:02:01','2014-01-20 08:02:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7616',0,'post','',0),(7618,1,'2014-01-20 08:12:01','2014-01-20 08:12:01','Jumpel\'s <em>Bloc4</em> was placed at number 7 in the Nowamuzyka Top Ten of 2013. Read the full write up (in Polish) <a href=\"http://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2013/12/16/podsumowanie-2013-lukasz-komla/\">here</a>.','Jumpel &quot;Bloc4&quot; In Nowamuzyka Top Ten of 2013','','publish','closed','open','','jumpel-bloc4-in-nowamuzyka-top-ten-of-2013','','','2014-01-20 08:12:01','2014-01-20 08:12:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7618',0,'post','',0),(7620,1,'2014-01-21 03:40:15','2014-01-21 03:40:15','perth\'s <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em> is getting some Canadian love with the album landing in the top 30 at the wonderful <a href=\"http://cjsw.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CJSW</a>. Check out the chart <a href=\"http://cjsw.com/music/charts/2014-01-20/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> and the album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\">here</a>.','perth&#039;s &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; in the CJSW Top 30!','','publish','closed','open','','perths-whats-your-utopia-in-the-cjsw-top-30','','','2016-02-03 16:06:15','2016-02-03 08:06:15','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7620',0,'post','',0),(7623,1,'2014-01-21 03:42:42','2014-01-21 03:42:42','<strong>Track of the Day -</strong> \"Latest loveliness from Aussie dream studio Hidden Shoal sees the imminent arrival of the new perth single ‘greasy moon’. ripped from their forthcoming sophomore set ’what’s your utopia?’, ’greasy moon’ is a slow ice thawing slab of darkly unfurling majesty cradled amid a ghost light seasoning of subtle soft psyche strobes marooned in cool cold wave texturing and spectrally dappled and harnessed upon swathes of waxing and waning oceanic opines unto which a sense of a shadowy gravitas bleeds – best filed somewhere near the Church in terms of understated bruised beauty.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2013/12/16/tales-from-the-attic-volume-xviii-revolutions-of-a-33-and-45-kind/\" target=\"_blank\">God Is In The TV</a>','perth &#039;Greasy Moon&#039; Reviewed at God Is In The TV (Track of the Day)','','publish','closed','open','','perth-greasy-moon-reviewed-at-god-is-in-the-tv','','','2014-01-21 03:42:42','2014-01-21 03:42:42','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7623',0,'post','',0),(7625,1,'2014-01-21 03:55:09','2014-01-21 03:55:09','\"Staying with Hidden Shoal a little while longer, now this is quite simply arresting, been a while since we hooked up to the sounds of Apricot Rail, I seem to recall their last visitation in these pages many, many years ago had us all seductively cooed and frankly speechless in adoring admiration. It seems Perth’s finest have a new single out, ‘dore strauch’ be its name, lifted from their ‘Quarrels’ album which I’m suspecting we need to hear as soon as, this honey is pure pastoral kaleidoscopia. Woodwinds, glockenspiels and the ornate rustic reel of folk madrigals weave a sumptuously hypnotic haven of vintage village green follies by way of an ageless craft honeyed in a regal pepper-corning that could easily be a spell crafting Ozric Tentacles lassoed from their astral planes and moored to some lush green idyllic meadow whittling woodcuts with circulus and sproatly smith under the watchful proud eye of a certain Mr Oldfield.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2013/12/16/tales-from-the-attic-volume-xviii-revolutions-of-a-33-and-45-kind/\" target=\"_blank\">God Is In The TV</a>','Apricot Rail &#039;Dore Strauch&#039; Reviewed at God Is In The TV','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-dore-strauch-reviewed-at-god-is-in-the-tv','','','2014-01-21 03:55:09','2014-01-21 03:55:09','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7625',0,'post','',0),(7630,1,'2014-01-23 23:03:33','2014-01-23 23:03:33','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies//\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Kramies\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" /></a>The brilliant <a href=\"http://warmer-climes.blogspot.ro/2014/01/warmer-mixtapes-989-by-kramies-gerrit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Warmer Climes</a> project, run by the lovely Vlad Stoian, asks artists to create an imaginary mixtape along with descriptions of their 10 all time favourite tracks. The project includes lists and writings from such artists as Boards of Canada, Gotye, Nathan Fake, My Brightest Diamond and many, many more, including our very own <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies!</a> The Hidden Shoal gem who recently gave us the sublime EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> (along with contribution from Jason Lytle and Todd Tobias) has presented his fantastic top ten list which you can check out now at <a href=\"http://warmer-climes.blogspot.ro/2014/01/warmer-mixtapes-989-by-kramies-gerrit.html\">Warmer Climes</a>.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124268321\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','Kramies Featured at Warmer Climes','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-feature-at-warmer-climes','','','2016-02-03 15:46:50','2016-02-03 07:46:50','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7630',0,'post','',0),(7635,1,'2014-01-23 23:46:38','2014-01-23 23:46:38','\"...perth (lower case “p” intended) are a part of this study and their sophomore recording “What’s Your Utopia?” continues in the vein of shoegaze/post rock that the label loves. perth’s approach is somewhat unique in that they don’t stick to just one of these styles but mix it up in a gorgeous and lush soundscape filled with found sound loops and beats, electronic glitches and scratches, the ever present breathy muddled vocals and that rich and full guitar and electronic sound that so much identifies shoegaze dream pop The lyrics are bittersweet tales of longing, hope, and sorrow. Lots of big breaths and sighs when listening but oh so true. Sometimes a listener just needs this sentiment expressed in this way. “What’s Your Utopia?” mixes it up enough to keep you guessing and then when you finally let go it becomes a part of your day. Not background music but “inside” music, music inside of you. Let go.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://spidey.kfjc.org/?p=18137\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>KFJC</strong></a>','perth &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Reviewed at KFJC','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-reviewed-at-kfjc','','','2014-01-23 23:46:38','2014-01-23 23:46:38','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7635',0,'post','',0),(7637,1,'2014-01-24 00:11:24','2014-01-24 00:11:24','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"The Wooden Heart\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/wooden-ep.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Kramies stunning title track plucked from his recently released EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> has just scooped a single of the week pick over at Rocksucker. Check it out <a href=\"http://rocksucker.co.uk/2014/01/the-best-of-this-weeks-singles-part-2-ninetails-department-m-kev-la-kat-and-more.html\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> and then download the single for free <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">here</a>.','&#039;The Wooden Heart&#039; One of the Singles of the Week at Rocksucker','','publish','closed','open','','the-wooden-heart-one-of-the-singles-of-the-week-at-rocksucker','','','2016-02-03 15:46:50','2016-02-03 07:46:50','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7637',0,'post','',0),(7640,1,'2014-01-24 08:52:02','2014-01-24 08:52:02','<a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Voices Out There\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/voices-album.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /></a>[The] Caseworker\'s brilliant 2013 album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/voices-out-there\"><em>Voices Out There</em></a> has continued to garner glowing press wherever it has been covered. And why wouldn\'t it? It\'s such a deeply affecting, atmospheric slab of hypnotic pop that it becomes almost impossible to not be lost in its ever evolving charms. Here\'s a round-up of recent reviews out of Europe  and the US that espoused the same feelings -  <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon212/usca212b.php\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Kafe</a> (Norway), <a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2013/10/25/the-caseworker-voices-out-there/\" target=\"_blank\">Music Won\'t Save You</a> (Italy), <a href=\"http://polyphonia.pl/2013/10/the-caseworker-voices-out-there/\" target=\"_blank\">Polyphonia</a> (Poland) and <a href=\"http://www.tometotheweathermachine.com/reviews/2013/12/caseworker-nevada-greene-safiyya-ben-best-karl-jorgensen\" target=\"_blank\">Tome To The Weather Machine</a> (USA). Check the links to read the reviews and then soak in the album and grab some free downloads at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/114229285\" params=\"color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','[The] Caseworker Review Round Up','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-review-round-up','','','2016-02-03 16:16:25','2016-02-03 08:16:25','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7640',0,'post','',0),(7644,1,'2014-01-24 08:58:24','2014-01-24 08:58:24','\"\n\n[The] Caseworker\'s <i>Voices Out There</i> is their 4th album, and it\'s been promoted by two tasty singles; the album\'s title track, as well as the stunning <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon210/usca210b.php\">\"Dependence Day\"</a>. Depp-cored dream-pop for heart and soul.\n\nWith the 12 track <i>Voices Out There</i> Conor Devlin (vocals, guitar) and Eimer Devlin (vocals, bass), accompanied by drummer Will Waghorn and producer (and additional guitars) Monte Vallier have probably made their best album so far. The songs tread the dark side of pop, in moods, manners, and feelings. As I said when reviewing \"Dependence Day\" they create \"...perfect guitar-pop melancholia. Sadness painted in bright colours.\" This is far from the cherry and merry guitar pop. [The] Caseworker move in the shades and in landscapes of gloom and doom. That said, they are not a total doomsday ballroom band. This is not music for \'end times\' only. Their music do hold glimpses of daylight and colours as well, even though this is the pale and bleak edition of the colour palette. To quote Rolling Stone: <span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,helv;\">\"...extract darkness from inside whispery, ambient pop... completely enraptured and awesomely dazed\"</span>. [The] Caseworker serve strong tales of describing darkness and trauma, musically and vocally delivered with enigma and empathy.\n\nConor and Eimer share the vocals, and this also adds fine nuances to their songs and sound patterns. Best songs, besides the amazing \"Dependence Day\" and the fine title track (with lyrics based on Conor\'s morphine hallucinations experienced while hospitalized in Switzerland), are \"Morgen-Colla\", \"Ultramarine\", \"The Inside View\" (with its short \'reprise\' \"The Outside View\"), \"Negatives\", and the closing \'couple\' \"Effi Enters the Boat\" and \"Effi Leaves the Boat\". <i>Voices Out There</i> is a very fine listen. It is a majestic album with spellbinding songs.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon212/usca212b.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Luna Kafe</strong></a>','[The] Caseworker &quot;Voices Out There&quot; Reviewed at Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-voices-out-there-reviewed-at-luna-kafe','','','2014-01-24 08:58:24','2014-01-24 08:58:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7644',0,'post','',0),(7646,1,'2014-01-24 09:00:51','2014-01-24 09:00:51','\"I love the back story behind [The] Caseworker\'s former band, <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Half+Film\"><strong>Half Film</strong></a>. A couple of Irish musicians move to San Francisco in the 90\'s to start a band. Not because of the Haight-Ashbury scene, or the Bay Area punk rockers, but because of <strong>Mark Eitze</strong>l. <a href=\"http://images1.mtv.com/uri/mgid:file:docroot:mtv.com:/shared/media/images/amg_artist_portraits/standard/drp100/p192/p19204asj1u.jpg?enlarge=false&amp;matte=true&amp;matteColor=black&amp;quality=0.85\">Mark.Eitzel</a>.  Half Film moved to San Francisco to be a slowcore band. I love that. 2/3 of that criminally overlooked band have reformed as [The] Caseworker playing in the similar vein to<strong> Codeine</strong>, <strong>Seam</strong>, <strong>American Music Club</strong> of navel-gazing, plodding guitar music accompanied with some truly inspired outsider pop elements a la <strong>Flying Nun</strong> Kiwi pop legends <strong>The Chills</strong> or <strong>The Clean</strong>. Perfect low-key pop album for walking on decaying leaves on some bright, chilly morning. I also love [The] Caseworker because, as a case worker (case manager is the preferred term for my agency) I totally understand the prevailing sadness and discontent that this album exudes. Welcome to my job.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.tometotheweathermachine.com/reviews/2013/12/caseworker-nevada-greene-safiyya-ben-best-karl-jorgensen\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tome To The Weather Machine</strong></a>','[The] Caseworker &quot;Voices Out There&quot; Reviewed at Tome To The Weather Machine','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-voices-out-there-reviewed-at-tome-to-the-weather-machine','','','2014-01-24 09:00:51','2014-01-24 09:00:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7646',0,'post','',0),(7648,1,'2014-01-24 09:06:25','2014-01-24 09:06:25','[Translated from the Polish via Google. Read the original <a href=\"http://polyphonia.pl/2013/10/the-caseworker-voices-out-there/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.]\n\n\"<span><span>Floated the soul of the Velvet Underground, but fortunately there are teams that show who was the inspiration for them. </span><span>Today the trio </span></span><strong><span><span>[The] caseworker</span></span></strong><span><span> .</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Yesterday we received the sad news of the death of Lou Reed. </span><span>Probably if not for his influence, is today I did not write about the latest album </span></span><strong><span><span>\"Voices Out There\"</span></span></strong><span><span> [The] caseworker. </span><span>Some time ago on Polyphonii </span></span><a title=\"http://polyphonia.pl/2013/10/nowy-klip-od-the-caseworker/\" href=\"http://polyphonia.pl/2013/10/nowy-klip-od-the-caseworker/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>described the</span></span></a><span><span> video for the title track, which was another harbinger of the upcoming longplay. </span><span>The disc is released on Australian label </span></span><a title=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>Hidden Shoal Recordings</span></span></a><span><span> .</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Probably many years ago, musicians [The] caseworker, somewhere in the garage under recreated hits the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed himself. </span><span>In several recordings for the \"Voices Out There\" clearly can be seen that TVU was a point of reference. </span><span>On the other hand, we have a clear reference to Sonic Youth - not only because he sings and plays bass woman Eimer Devlin. </span><span>There is no way in the case of [The] caseworker does not refer to the British scene. </span><span>The material on the album was partly recorded in Cornwall in the studio Farm2, led by Neil Halstead (Slowdive former member). </span><span>In several passages of American musicians gave a mood that can be found in the compositions of Slowdive from the 90s</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Music [The] caseworker is also a characteristic of sleepy and slow pace, which sometimes comes on top of a slightly depressed mood, associated with the stage slowcore\'ową (Codeine, Low and Red House Painters).</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Peeling back all the associations and speculations, the album \"Voices Out There\" is a piece of solid play.</span><span>I appreciate the melodies that he composed the guitar Conor Devlin, as well as imaginative and original bass parts Eimer Devlin. </span><span>The band recorded a coherent album, which is not coming apart at the proverbial sides. </span><span>Sophisticated savings in means a great asset to their composition; musicians do not przekombinowali with an excess of ideas. </span><span>The bottom line is that he wants to come back to the recordings [The] caseworker. </span><span>I hope that their plate - and the same group - gets more attention in our country.</span></span>\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://polyphonia.pl/2013/10/the-caseworker-voices-out-there/\" target=\"_blank\">Polyphonia</a>','[The] Caseworker &quot;Voices Out There&quot; Reviewed at Polyphonia','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-voices-out-there-reviewed-at-polyphonia','','','2014-01-24 09:06:25','2014-01-24 09:06:25','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7648',0,'post','',0),(7650,1,'2014-01-24 09:09:31','2014-01-24 09:09:31','[Translated from the Italian via Google. Read the original <a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2013/10/25/the-caseworker-voices-out-there/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.]\n\n\"<span><span>The physical distance between the components of a given band is now a more and more relevant, not only for the electronic experimenters who exchange files from one corner of the globe, but also for artists who put the writing and the cohesion of melodic songs at the center of their expressive code. </span><span>It is a well-established for [The] caseworker, quartet whose members are spread between California, England and Switzerland but maintains its roots firmly on the U.S. West Coast.</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Like last \" </span></span><a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2011/12/12/letters-from-the-coast/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>Letters From The Coast</span></span></a><span><span> \", also their fifth album\" Voices Out There \"was in fact recorded in San Francisco, in the same studios that have seen the birth of the latest works by Soft Moon and The Weekend. </span><span>Probably the latter figure was partly plagued the band led by brothers Conor and Eimer Devlin, whose Popsong agile and sadly you are now cloaked in wraparound shades shady. </span><span>Not for this is missing the potential of melodic songs, however, who see their times and languor slowed moderately jangly outcropping in previous work become more full-bodied and dark reverbs.</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Although in particular the first part of \"Voices Out There\" maintains suspended atmospheres and dreamy, soaked by salt breezes (\"Ultramarine\", \"Dependence Day\"), explicit twists distant echoes from the garage and turbid feedback (\"Morgen-shelf\", \" The Inside View \") deviates decisively towards gothic setting, although tempered by flowing melodic fading, which are interpretations of Conor Devlin complement of unpredictable natural.</span></span>\n\n<span><span>The restyled sound [The] caseworker will weigh in part the immediacy of the songs, making the pass band stationed in Europe and America from the sweet nostalgia of Teenage Fanclub reminiscences wave veiled by a dark patina that only the persistence of a dreamy melodic touch features compared to the revivals of many other American bands in recent years.</span></span>\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2013/10/25/the-caseworker-voices-out-there/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Music Won\'t Save You</strong></a>','[The] Caseworker &quot;Voices Out There&quot; Reviewed at Music Won&#039;t Save You','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-voices-out-there-reviewed-at-music-wont-save-you','','','2014-01-24 09:09:31','2014-01-24 09:09:31','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7650',0,'post','',0),(7654,1,'2014-01-28 03:37:26','2014-01-28 03:37:26','<em><a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/wooden-ep.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /></a><a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\">The Wooden Heart</a></em> has been receiving a slew of brilliant reviews of late and none better than these reviews from two French publications - <a href=\"http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/spip.php?page=apropos\" target=\"_blank\">A Decouvrir Absolument</a>  <a href=\"http://www.indiepoprock.fr/chroniques/albums/kramies/the-wooden-heart-ep/\" target=\"_blank\">IndiePopRock</a>. Both reviews are written in the native tongue so we\'ll attempt to translate a little here (please excuse our Google assisted translation!),\n\n<em>\"... this EP is folk, velvet, intimate, a rich work in minor tones, we see touches of these people and that the creator is actually so and so so and so helped by another and another ( you can see the great artists are there) , the production is perfect, but these things do not explain enough what a wonderful listening experience this is and the fantastic spell it emanates. What I want is to give you the desire to become human during the time of this disc, closing the eyes little by little on the brilliant artwork of Jérôme Sevrette ( I quote a great love for the work of the photographer and his good taste when choosing work) and find out that The Wooden Heart is a true work of art , vital, indispensable . God I love music.\"</em> - <strong><a href=\"http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/spip.php?page=apropos\" target=\"_blank\">A Decouvrir Absolument</a></strong>\n\n<em>\"Built on a base dark and melancholic pop, these six songs enjoy a delectable atmospheric character that is reminiscent of the old inspirations of the genre. On the fly, we instantly think of Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse or Slowdive. Kramies moves in the same folk-rock liberator and vocal register, with one exception. Because unlike the three references cited above, his compositions are delicately enamelled electronic textures, handling the organic aspect of his work with shadowy and enigmatic feelings ( The Beginning,  Upon The Northern Isles ). Psychedelic light points on the pieces where Lytle is involved ( Sea Otter Cottage, Clocks Were All Broken</em><span><span><em> ) also recall that wander in a dreamlike music involves some risk taking.\" - </em><strong><a href=\"http://www.indiepoprock.fr/chroniques/albums/kramies/the-wooden-heart-ep/\" target=\"_blank\">IndiePopRock</a></strong>\n</span></span>\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108752237\" params=\"color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','More Glowing Reviews for Kramies&#039; &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot;','','publish','closed','open','','more-glowing-reviews-for-kramies-the-wooden-heart','','','2016-02-03 15:46:50','2016-02-03 07:46:50','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7654',0,'post','',0),(7660,1,'2014-01-28 03:39:28','2014-01-28 03:39:28','[Translated excerpt. Read the full review in French <a href=\"http://www.indiepoprock.fr/chroniques/albums/kramies/the-wooden-heart-ep/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>]<em> \"Built on a base dark and melancholic pop, these six songs enjoy a delectable atmospheric character that is reminiscent of the old inspirations of the genre. On the fly, we instantly think of Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse or Slowdive. Kramies moves in the same folk-rock liberator and vocal register, with one exception. Because unlike the three references cited above, his compositions are delicately enamelled electronic textures, handling the organic aspect of his work with shadowy and enigmatic feelings ( The Beginning,  Upon The Northern Isles ). Psychedelic light points on the pieces where Lytle is involved ( Sea Otter Cottage, Clocks Were All Broken</em><em> ) also recall that wander in a dreamlike music involves some risk taking.\" </em>\n\n<em>- </em><strong><a href=\"http://www.indiepoprock.fr/chroniques/albums/kramies/the-wooden-heart-ep/\" target=\"_blank\">IndiePopRock</a></strong>','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Reviewed at IndiePopRock','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-reviewed-at-indiepoprock','','','2014-01-28 03:39:28','2014-01-28 03:39:28','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7660',0,'post','',0),(7663,1,'2014-01-28 03:40:39','2014-01-28 03:40:39','[Translated excerpt. Read the full review in French <a href=\"http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/spip.php?page=apropos\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.] <em>\"... this EP is folk, velvet, intimate, a rich work in minor tones, we see touches of these people and that the creator is actually so and so so and so helped by another and another ( you can see the great artists are there) , the production is perfect, but these things do not explain enough what a wonderful listening experience this is and the fantastic spell it emanates. What I want is to give you the desire to become human during the time of this disc, closing the eyes little by little on the brilliant artwork of Jérôme Sevrette ( I quote a great love for the work of the photographer and his good taste when choosing work) and find out that The Wooden Heart is a true work of art , vital, indispensable . God I love music.\"</em>\n\n- <strong><a href=\"http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/spip.php?page=apropos\" target=\"_blank\">A Decouvrir Absolument</a></strong>','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Reviewed at A Decouvrir Absolument','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-reviewed-at-a-decouvrir-absolument','','','2014-01-28 03:40:39','2014-01-28 03:40:39','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7663',0,'post','',0),(7665,1,'2014-01-29 03:31:09','2014-01-29 03:31:09','<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/WYU.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /></a>US college radio love continues to grow for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a>\'s<em><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"> What\'s Your Utopia?</a>. </em>The album just scooped the number 1 CMJ radio add at KBRP and has just debuted in the <a href=\"http://wcbnmd.blogspot.com.au/\" target=\"_blank\">WCBN chart</a> at number 8!','perth &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; in WCBN Top Ten Chart','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-in-wcbn-top-ten-chart','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7665',0,'post','',0),(7668,1,'2014-01-29 07:07:11','2014-01-29 07:07:11','\"Dutch-American singer-songwriters may be in relatively short supply, although if the Jason Lytle-inhabited five minutes to comprise <strong>Kramies</strong> Windt’s Sea Otter Cottage suggest anything, then it’s that we perhaps ought to be aware of way more of them. So long as they even so much as exist… For Sea Otter Cottage succeeds in evoking the wistful, lo-fi grandiosity of Grandaddy’s seminal <em>The Sophtware Slump</em>, as well as the raw viscosity of Craig Nicholls’ more introspective moments and, intermittently, the productional dexterity of Brian DeGraw. It’s a hodgepodge of sonics that perhaps shouldn’t gel all that well together, although as this self-proclaimed ‘Troubadour for Hip City Dwellers’ sings of uncooperative seas that “swallowed us all”, this immersive piece of haute acoustica achieves complete absorption.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://dotsanddashes.co.uk/blog/sea-otter-cottage-kramies/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dots &amp; Dashes</strong></a>','Kramies &#039;Sea Otter Cottage&#039; Reviewed at Dots &amp; Dashes','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-sea-otter-cottage-reviewed-at-dots-dashes','','','2014-01-29 07:07:11','2014-01-29 07:07:11','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7668',0,'post','',0),(7672,1,'2014-02-05 02:40:02','2014-02-05 02:40:02','Fantastic and fun review of Kramies <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> at the always awesome <a href=\"http://spacerockmountain.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/kramies-wooden-heart-2014.html?m=1\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceRockMountain</a>. Here\'s a glimpse,\n\n<em>\"This record has three things going for it:\n1. It is being released by Hidden Shoal, one of the best labels around putting out dreamy pop music.\n2. Folks involved with Guided by Voices and Grandaddy have helped with the production.\n3. The recording quality is immaculate without sounding processed.\" </em>- <a href=\"http://spacerockmountain.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/kramies-wooden-heart-2014.html?m=1http://\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SpaceRockMountain</strong></a>\n\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/-l4F8vCH8MM?rel=0\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','&quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Review Love at SpaceRockMountain','','publish','closed','open','','the-wooden-heart-review-love-at-spacerockmountain','','','2016-02-03 15:46:49','2016-02-03 07:46:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7672',0,'post','',0),(7676,1,'2014-02-05 02:41:35','2014-02-05 02:41:35','\"This record has three things going for it:\n\n1. It is being released by Hidden Shoal, one of the best labels around putting out dreamy pop music.\n\n2. Folks involved with Guided by Voices and Grandaddy have helped with the production.\n\n3. The recording quality is immaculate without sounding processed.\n\nThe layers of lush sound found on the EP\'s title track may not cure cancer, but it almost surely can cure canker sores. Did I ever mention that I studied medicine during the French Revolution? And by \"study medicine\", I mean I killed a lot of people and ate them. This EP is much more relaxing than that time period in my life, and any fan of the aforementioned bands who isn\'t taking this one out for a spin should be a patient at my lobotomy school.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://spacerockmountain.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/kramies-wooden-heart-2014.html?m=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SpaceRockMountain</strong></a>','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Reviewed at SpaceRockMountain','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-reviewed-at-spacerockmountain','','','2014-02-05 02:41:35','2014-02-05 02:41:35','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7676',0,'post','',0),(7678,1,'2014-02-06 05:37:27','2014-02-06 05:37:27','<div>\n<div>\n\n<a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/sets/outstation-let-the-mess-shine\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7680\" alt=\"Outstation\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Outstation-300px.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"134\" /></a>Hidden Shoal is excited to be able to share the brilliant 1999 album <em>Let The Mess Shine In</em> from the Craig Hallsworth-led, Perth-based Outstation. Loud, brash, melodic and always engaging, Outstation lit the stage up wherever they played. <em>Let The Mess Shine In</em> captures this raw power beautifully. The band consisted of Craig Hallsworth (guitar, vocals), Jim Butterworth (bass), Jamie Hamilton (drums).\n\n<em>\"...one of the most ferociously heavy live bands going round in the mid-90s. They played ear-splitting indie rock and were killer live. Critically acclaimed, sadly underappreciated, they were a true gem, delivering top shelf servings of gritty indie rock.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://lifeisnoise.com/2010/11/16/the-roost-al-%E2%80%9Cdr-alien%E2%80%9D-smith-on-outstation/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Life is Noise</strong></a>\n\nThanks to the band, the album is now available in full for streaming and download via the Hidden Shoal <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/sets/outstation-let-the-mess-shine\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud</a>. Fans of Hallsworth\'s work should also check out his current project <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/tangled-star/\">Tangled Star </a>and his previous band <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-slow-beings/\">The Slow Beings</a> whose releases are available now through <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\">Hidden Shoal</a>.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/21836319\" params=\"color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"260\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n\n&nbsp;\n\n</div>\n</div>','Outstation&#039;s &quot;Let The Mess Shine In&quot; Now Available For Streaming and Download!','','publish','closed','open','','outstations-let-the-mess-shine-in-now-available-for-streaming-and-download','','','2016-02-03 16:30:52','2016-02-03 08:30:52','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7678',0,'post','',0),(7709,1,'2014-02-06 08:46:30','2014-02-06 08:46:30','<a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/book/\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7711\" alt=\"All Downhill From Here\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SPB_Book-187x300.png\" width=\"192\" height=\"309\" /></a>Our friends at S<a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/\">cene Point Blank</a> have just published a wonderful new book, \"<a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/book/\" target=\"_blank\">All Downhill From Here</a>\". Those of you who are regular readers will know the quality of writing SPB have continually produced and \"All Downhill From Here\" catalogues some of the cream of the crop including interviews with artists such as Henry Rollins, Polar Bear Club and coverage of albums by the likes of PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens and Public Enemy. In the words of the Scene Point Blank Team,\n\n<em>\"After 10 years of web exclusives, Scene Point Blank is releasing a book. The collection contains our favorite interviews and reviews with brand new intros and insights into our history. Over 300 pages of interviews and music devotion to the underground scene.\"</em>\n\nGrab yourself a copy <a title=\"All Downhill From Here\" href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/book/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> and check out the site in full <a title=\"Scene Point Blank\" href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.','Fantastic New Book from Scene Point Blank','','publish','closed','open','','fantastic-new-book-from-scene-point-blank','','','2014-02-06 08:46:30','2014-02-06 08:46:30','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7709',0,'post','',0),(7718,1,'2014-02-10 05:39:31','2014-02-10 05:39:31','\"ohio by way of the netherlands singer/songwriter <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies//\">kramies</a> has already had some auspicious signs for his dreamy new release, \'the wooden heart\', out now on <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal\">hidden shoal recordings</a>. with the help of folks like <a href=\"http://jasonlytle.com/\">jason lytle</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\">todd tobias</a>, <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/kramies\">kramies</a>, a veteran of making luscious folk pop the old fashioned way, in bedrooms, closets and basements on a four track, has created and extra thick stew of wide open soundscapes to surround his meditative tunes.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.themodernfolk.net/2014/02/kramies-wooden-heart.html?m=1\" target=\"_blank\">the modern folk music of america</a>','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Reviewed at The Modern Folk Music of America','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-reviewed-at-the-modern-folk-music-of-america','','','2014-02-10 05:39:31','2014-02-10 05:39:31','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7718',0,'post','',0),(7721,1,'2014-02-10 07:57:26','2014-02-10 07:57:26','<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/WYU.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /></a>Fantastic review of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a>\'s <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em></a> by the ever wonderful Raffaello Russo (Ondarock, ROCKERILLA) at his blog <a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2014/02/01/perth-whats-your-utopia/\" target=\"_blank\">Music Won\'t Save You</a>. The review is in Italian so here\'s a poorly translated excerpt thanks to Google,\n\n<em> \"Right from the opening track \"Drank And Kites And Tomorrow\", also released as a single, the Australian band fills out a patchwork of pronounced rhythmic emphasis, in which keyboards and reverbed vocal outline a texture from kraut flavored, shifting to Chicago post-rock and a contemporary mingling of languages, from Caribou to Flying Lotus...this album by Perth is multifaceted and visionary.\"</em> - <strong>Music Won\'t Save You</strong>\n\nApologies for the rough tranlsation, we do hope you can <a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2014/02/01/perth-whats-your-utopia/\" target=\"_blank\">read the review in it\'s native Italian</a>!','perth&#039;s &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Review at Music Won&#039;t Save You (Italy)','','publish','closed','open','','perths-whats-your-upopia-review-at-music-will-not-save-you-italy','','','2016-02-03 16:06:30','2016-02-03 08:06:30','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7721',0,'post','',0),(7725,1,'2014-02-10 08:00:30','2014-02-10 08:00:30','[Translation via Google Translate. Please read the review in it\'s native Italian <a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2014/02/01/perth-whats-your-utopia/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>]\n\n\"<span><span>Perth is the place of origin and a meeting of four musicians who have identified in the Australian city at the heart of a collaboration that on the occasion of the first album \"Babes, Water, Waves\" (2012) was held at a distance.  A</span></span><span><span>ccording to the \"What\'s Your Utopia? \"instead sees the band consists of three members of Apricot Rail and songwriter Michael Dolan work out a more organic approach, epitomized by the creation in presence, in places ranging from a study of Perth (just) a rudimentary environments of the south West Australian, nine new tracks in which they recast a kaleidoscopic synthesis of electronic pop from the broken rhythms and contours of dreamy psychedelia.</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Right from the opening track \"Drank And Kites And Tomorrow\", also released as a single, the Australian band fills out a patchwork of pronounced rhythmic emphasis, in which keyboards and vocal reverbs outline a texture from light flavor kraut, but updated to post-rock chicagoano and recent experience of mingling of languages, from Caribou to Flying Lotus. </span><span>Not only is synthetic vibrations made the album, however, that the substrate shimmering sounds of interstellar engages arrangements of brass, escapes sci-fi and current environmental equivalents of sound fragments buttons but only apparently accidental.</span></span>\n\n<span><span>Among tremors insistent and twisting by the dense grain foley, \"What\'s Your Utopia?\" Gives, however, the best in the simplest steps and, in a sense, \"pop\", or when the palette of the four Australian deviates to a nice pop folktronico mold Morr Music (\"Saw Promenade\", \"Collapsible Lung\") or to un\'ambience dotted microsounds that may be rethinking the early </span></span><a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2013/09/06/mum-smilewound/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>Múm</span></span></a><span><span> .</span></span>\n\n<span><span>The more than ten minutes of the final \"Viewmaster\" then put the seal with an overdrive ratio fading leads into dense reverb drifts space taken by Perth with an album so multifaceted and visionary.</span></span>\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2014/02/01/perth-whats-your-utopia/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Music Won\'t Save You</strong></a>','perth &quot;What&#039;s Your Utopia?&quot; Reviewed at Music Won&#039;t Save You','','publish','closed','open','','perth-whats-your-utopia-reviewed-at-music-will-not-save-you','','','2014-02-10 08:00:30','2014-02-10 08:00:30','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7725',0,'post','',0),(7733,1,'2014-02-13 02:56:09','2014-02-13 02:56:09','<a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/wooden-ep.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /></a>The stunning title track to Kramies latest EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> has been chosen as one of the latest top ten \"Fresh Faves\" over at Tom Robinson\'s (BBC) <a href=\"http://freshonthenet.co.uk/2014/02/faves94/\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh On The Net</a> site. Here\'s what reviewer Sam Lee had to say about the track,\n\n<em>\"“Expansive”, “widescreen”, “windswept” – all of these words have been used to describe the latest EP from <strong>Kramies</strong>, and very accurate they all are too. The lead single and title track The Wooden Heart is at once cinematic and comforting and, despite its name, full of warmth and personality.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://freshonthenet.co.uk/2014/02/faves94/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fresh On The Net</strong></a>\n\nGrab yourself a free download of the track and a copy of the EP <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108752237\" params=\"color=ff9900&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n\n&nbsp;','Kramies Track in Fresh on The Net Faves (Tom Robinson, BBC)','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-track-in-fresh-on-the-net-faves-tom-robinson-bbc','','','2016-02-03 15:46:49','2016-02-03 07:46:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7733',0,'post','',0),(7739,1,'2014-02-13 02:57:15','2014-02-13 02:57:15','\" “Expansive”, “widescreen”, “windswept” – all of these words have been used to describe the latest EP from <strong>Kramies</strong>, and very accurate they all are too. The lead single and title track The Wooden Heart is at once cinematic and comforting and, despite its name, full of warmth and personality.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://freshonthenet.co.uk/2014/02/faves94/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fresh On The Net</strong></a>','Kramies &#039;The Wooden Heart&#039; Single Reviewed at Fresh On The Net','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-single-reviewed-at-fresh-on-the-net','','','2014-02-13 02:57:15','2014-02-13 02:57:15','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7739',0,'post','',0),(7743,1,'2014-02-20 04:57:05','2014-02-20 04:57:05','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Voices Out There\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/voices-album.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /></a>The good folks at KBRP know good music. Want proof? How about three Hidden Shoal artists in the <a href=\"http://www.kbrpradio.com/\" target=\"_blank\">KBRP</a> CMJ Top Ten this week! perth\'s <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em></a> at 3, Kramies\' <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> at 4 and [The] Caseworker\'s <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/voices-out-there\"><em>Voices Out There</em></a> at 8. Now if we can just dislodge Stephen Malkmus, Damien Jurado, XIU XIU and a few others we can hold the top three spots.','PERTH, Kramies and [The] Caseworker All in the KBRP Top Ten!','','publish','closed','open','','perth-kramies-and-the-caseworker-all-in-the-kbrp-top-ten','','','2016-02-03 16:16:24','2016-02-03 08:16:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7743',0,'post','',0),(7746,1,'2014-02-20 06:08:35','2014-02-20 06:08:35','\"Staying with Hidden Shoal a little while longer, now this is quite simply arresting, been a while since we hooked up to the sounds of Apricot Rail, I seem to recall their last visitation in these pages many, many years ago had us all seductively cooed and frankly speechless in adoring admiration. It seems Perth’s finest have a new single out, ‘dore strauch’ be its name, lifted from their ‘Quarrels’ album which I’m suspecting we need to hear as soon as, this honey is pure pastoral kaleidoscopia. Woodwinds, glockenspiels and the ornate rustic reel of folk madrigals weave a sumptuously hypnotic haven of vintage village green follies by way of an ageless craft honeyed in a regal pepper-corning that could easily be a spell crafting Ozric Tentacles lassoed from their astral planes and moored to some lush green idyllic meadow whittling woodcuts with circulus and sproatly smith under the watchful proud eye of a certain Mr Oldfield.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/apricot-rail/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Sunday Experience</strong></a>','Apricot Rail &#039;Dore Strauch&#039; Reviewed at The Sunday Experience','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-dore-strauch-reviewed-at-the-sunday-experience','','','2014-02-20 06:08:35','2014-02-20 06:08:35','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7746',0,'post','',0),(7757,1,'2014-02-26 02:32:28','2014-02-26 02:32:28','<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/a-smooth-sea-never-made-a-skilful-sailor\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/smoothsea_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Hidden Shoal is excited to bring you <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/a-smooth-sea-never-made-a-skilful-sailor\"><em>A Smooth Sea Never Made A Skilful Sailor</em></a>, the new EP by Australian experimental/ambient duo <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/gilded/\">Gilded</a>. Following on from the release of their critically acclaimed debut album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\"><em>Terrane</em></a> and its accompanying national tour, Gilded’s new EP <em>A Smooth Sea Never Made A Skilful Sailor</em> brings together three previously unreleased and essential new tracks.\n\n‘38 Degrees (Live at The Bird)’ is a beautiful live improvised guitar-based work, rich in textural details, contrasting markedly with the more piano-focused pieces on Terrane. Shoeb Ahmad (of Canberra outfit <a href=\"http://www.spartakmusic.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Spartak</a>) remixes 2012 single ‘Cluttered Room’, dissecting the bassline, banjo and melodica and tethering them to an itchy breakbeat, surrounding the mix with an otherworldly vocal. Hidden Shoal’s very own <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a> also take on ‘Cluttered Room’ in their own inimitable style, creating an ebbing electro-acoustic micro-environment set adrift in clouds of reverb.\n\n<em>A Smooth Sea Never Made A Skilful Sailor</em> is available for free download from the <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/a-smooth-sea-never-made-a-skilful-sailor\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and can be streamed over at <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/sets/gilded-a-smooth-sea-never-made\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud</a>. Be sure to check out the wonderful work of <a href=\"http://www.spartakmusic.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoeb Ahmad/Spartak</a> and <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a> while you\'re at it.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/24523974\" params=\"auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" iframe=\"true\" /]','New Free EP From Australian Experimentalists Gilded','','publish','closed','open','','new-free-ep-from-australian-experimentalists-gilded','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7757',0,'post','',0),(7768,1,'2014-02-27 07:31:46','2014-02-27 07:31:46','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Kramies\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" />Love for Kramies stunning EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a> continues to roll in. The EP, which features collaborations and production by both Jason Lytle and Todd Tobias, has just received two beautiful reviews from <a href=\"http://backseatmafia.com/2014/02/23/discover-kramies-and-listen-to-tracks-from-his-wooden-heart-ep/\" target=\"_blank\">Backseat Mafia</a> and <a href=\"http://mikea7.typepad.com/now_its_on/2014/02/ep-spotlight-kramies-the-wooden-heart.html\" target=\"_blank\">Now It\'s On</a>. Check out these excerpts,\n\n<em>\"Luckily, the quiet and calm at the beginning of a new year of music releases allowed me to re-discover some of 2013\'s hidden gems and The Wooden Heart by Kramies is just that.... Kramies wasn\'t fooling around with this release. The Dutch/American singer/songwriter, who was born in Cleveland but is now based out of Colorado, excels with his dreamy pop sound.\"</em> - <strong><a href=\"http://mikea7.typepad.com/now_its_on/2014/02/ep-spotlight-kramies-the-wooden-heart.html\" target=\"_blank\">Now It\'s On</a></strong>\n\n<em>\"This man of the world is making it sit up and pay attention now. Quite rightly so.\" - </em><a href=\"http://backseatmafia.com/2014/02/23/discover-kramies-and-listen-to-tracks-from-his-wooden-heart-ep/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Backseat Mafia</strong></a>\n\nIf you\'ve not yet had the pleasure of this EP or Kramies previous EP <em>The European </em>then head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> where you can hear both and also grab yourself some free tracks!\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124268321\" params=\"auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','More Glowing Reviews For Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot;','','publish','closed','open','','more-glowing-reviews-for-kramies-the-wooden-heart-2','','','2016-02-03 15:46:49','2016-02-03 07:46:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7768',0,'post','',0),(7775,1,'2014-02-27 07:35:28','2014-02-27 07:35:28','\"Kramies Windt is something of an artist of the world. He’s a Dutch / American singer-singwriter, based out of Colorado that releases music latterly on the Australian Hidden Shoals Recordings label. He’s had a handful of releases to his credit, making this engaging brand of dreamy indie pop.\n\nOut last October was his Kramies EP, for which he drafted in <a title=\"Grandaddy\" href=\"http://www.grandaddylandscape.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Grandaddy</a>‘s <a title=\"Jason Lytle\" href=\"http://jasonlytle.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Jason Lytle</a> and <a title=\"Todd Tobias\" href=\"http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Todd Tobias</a> (<a title=\"Guided by Voices\" href=\"http://www.gbv.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Guided by Voices</a>) to help him. The EP opens with ‘The Beginning’ this echoey, stripped back, piano led song, that really showcases Kramies ethereal voice. Only short, its something of a introduction to the rest of the EP.\n\nFollow on Sea Otter Cottage is the first of the songs produced and played on by the Jason Lytle. It has this sort of sadness about it, melancholic in both nature and lyrically. There’s these bursts of colour provided by these guitar and synth lines that remind you of Lytle’s charges, and there’s enough melody there to keep your heart melting. Upon The Northern Isles is more electronic at the beginning, the simple guitar lines taking charge of the song as these rippling electronic sounds dissipate. It goes on to capture this hopeful feeling, despite being shrouded with doubt and nervousness and that recurring sadness.\n\nThe Wooden Heart is a much more traditional song, in indie rock format, losing the synth lines and replacing them with these blurry guitar lines, only the clarity of the piano parts seeming to hold things together. It ‘s also blessed with the best chorus and melodic lines of the EP, and (no surprise) is the most memorable track on the release.\n\nThe clocks were all broken heads back into the space territory Jason Lytle seems to have brought to the table, both on this and Sea Otter Cottage, (Tobias takes charge of all the other songs ) as things wash together, overlap and blend together into this electronic hue, only interrupted by Kramies vocal and these simple synth riffs. The EP closes with The Ending, this beautifully claustrophobic vignette, is a fitting end to an delightfully atmospheric release.\n\nThis man of the world is making it sit up and pay attention now. Quite rightly so.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://backseatmafia.com/2014/02/23/discover-kramies-and-listen-to-tracks-from-his-wooden-heart-ep/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Backseat Mafia</strong></a>','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Reviewed at Backseat Mafia','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-reviewed-at-backseat-mafia','','','2014-02-27 07:35:28','2014-02-27 07:35:28','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7775',0,'post','',0),(7778,1,'2014-02-27 07:38:40','2014-02-27 07:38:40','\"I\'ll be honest. Anytime I hear Jason Lytle is involved with an album or song, I am predisposed to check it out. The Grandaddy front man has long been one of my favorite songwriters working today. I had read about his involvement on this EP from Kramies Windt, who drops the last name for his music project, last year, but lost sight of the release date and it damn near fell off my radar.\n\nLuckily, the quiet and calm at the beginning of a new year of music releases allowed me to re-discover some of 2013\'s hidden gems and <em>The Wooden Heart</em> by Kramies is just that. Obviously I am biased towards material Lytle is involved in and he contributes his production and instrumental talents on two tracks here, \"Sea Otter Cottage\" and \"Clocks Were All Broken\". Both easily will appeal to fans of Lytle and Grandaddy as all the signature elements of his sound are there. Awash in swooning melody, strings and keyboards, as well as Kramies\' uniquely intriguing voice, check out the video for the gorgeous \"Sea Otter Cottage\" below.\n\nThe rest of the EP was produced by Todd Tobias, best known for his work with Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices. Yes, that makes two heavy hitters in the indie music scene, Kramies wasn\'t fooling around with this release. The Dutch/American singer/songwriter, who was born in Cleveland but is now based out of Colorado, excels with his dreamy pop sound. Opening with a track called \"The Beginning\" and closing with, appropriately enough, \"The Ending\", <em>The Wooden Heart</em> is dripping in melody, top notch song writing and emotional complexity. With acoustic guitars, piano, a wide swath of electronic flourishes and keyboards, it is music that is instantly appealing to my tastes. Listeners appreciative of atmosphere, maturity and melody in their music will find Kramies a welcome addition to their collection.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://mikea7.typepad.com/now_its_on/2014/02/ep-spotlight-kramies-the-wooden-heart.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Now It\'s On</strong></a>','Kramies &quot;The Wooden Heart&quot; Reviewed at Now It&#039;s On','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-reviewed-at-now-its-on','','','2014-02-27 07:38:40','2014-02-27 07:38:40','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7778',0,'post','',0),(7782,1,'2014-03-06 03:24:31','2014-03-06 03:24:31','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Kramies-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />\n\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a> continues to receive great press and coverage in France with his beautiful new EP <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a>. Our musical troubadour has just been interviewed by the excellent French zine <a href=\"http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/spip.php?article5173\" target=\"_blank\">a decouvrir absolument</a> and is also featured in their new Cosy Home Sessions with his beautiful acoustic rendition of \'Sea Otter Cottage\' (check it out below).\n\nBut wait, there\'s more! The lovely Guillaume Mazel who <a href=\"http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/spip.php?article5074\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed</a> <em>The Wooden Heart</em> and ran the above interview with Kramies has also written an absolutely beautiful personal response to the EP in this <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Wooden-Heart-Essay-by-Guillaume-Mazel.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">essay.</a> It really is such a wonderful written engagement with Kramies\' music on a level you generally don\'t get to see in this age of heavy musical traffic. Many thanks to Guillaume and <a href=\"http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/\" target=\"_blank\">a decouvrir absolument</a> for their support and continued great work.\n\n<iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/f9DpNmz60hs?rel=0\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','Kramies French Zine Interview + Essay from Guillaume Mazel','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-french-zine-interview-essay-from-guillaume-mazel','','','2016-02-03 15:46:49','2016-02-03 07:46:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7782',0,'post','',0),(7801,1,'2014-03-20 01:45:01','2014-03-20 01:45:01','<a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-drank-and-kites-and\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\'Drank and Kites and Tomorrow (GUM Remix)\' \" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/drankremix_MED.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We’re super excited to announce the release of the <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/gguumm\" target=\"_blank\">GUM</a> (Jay Watson of Tame Impala, Pond) remix of the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\" target=\"_blank\">PERTH</a> track ‘<a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-drank-and-kites-and\" target=\"_blank\">Drank and Kites and Tomorrow</a>’. GUM\'s re-working takes PERTH’s majestic original and streamlines it further into a Spiritualized-esque drone-pop beauty. The track is lifted from the forthcoming album <i>Where’s My Dystopia?</i> (May 1 2014) which features remixes of tracks from the band’s acclaimed second album <i><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\">What’s Your Utopia?</a> </i> by Mei Saraswati, Seams, No. 9, Usurper of Modern Medicine, Valerio Cosi among others.<i>\n</i>\n\nThe track is now available for <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-drank-and-kites-and\">free download</a> and <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-drank-and-kites-and-1\">stream</a>. Be sure to also check out the <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/spinningtopmusic\" target=\"_blank\">first two tracks</a> from GUM\'s forthcoming debut and PERTH\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">W<em>hat\'s Your Utopia?</em> and singles</a> while you\'re at it!\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/140327865\" params=\"color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]','GUM (Jay Watson of Tame Impala) Remixes PERTH - Stream and Download','','publish','closed','open','','gum-jay-watson-of-tame-impala-remixes-perth-stream-and-download','','','2016-02-03 16:06:14','2016-02-03 08:06:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7801',0,'post','',0),(7814,1,'2014-03-20 14:09:19','2014-03-20 14:09:19','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" />Yet another wonderful French interview with <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a> has just been published. This time the lovely folk over a <a href=\"http://www.froggydelight.com/article-14564-Kramies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Froggy Delight</a> took some time out with our man and talked about his latest EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a>. Check the feature out <a href=\"http://www.froggydelight.com/article-14564-Kramies.html\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> (non French speakers may need the help of French friend or worst case Google!).','Kramies Interviewed in French Zine Froggy Delight','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-interviewed-in-french-zine-froggy-delight','','','2014-03-20 14:09:19','2014-03-20 14:09:19','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7814',0,'post','',0),(7818,1,'2014-03-26 02:41:07','2014-03-26 02:41:07','<img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/wooden-ep.jpg\" width=\"84\" height=\"84\" />The wonderful French zine <a href=\"http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com\" target=\"_blank\">A Decouvrir Absolument</a> has just released its latest compilation album (number 31!) featuring the title track from <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a>\' brilliant 2013 EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a>. Lots of wonderful music collected on this freely downloadable comp so be sure to grab yourself a copy from the album page <a href=\"http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/spip.php?article5215\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.','Kramies &#039;The Wooden Heart&#039; Featured on French Compilation','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-wooden-heart-featured-on-french-compilation','','','2016-02-03 15:46:49','2016-02-03 07:46:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7818',0,'post','',0),(7822,1,'2014-03-26 05:25:22','2014-03-26 05:25:22','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Markus_Mehr_61-150x150.jpg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" />Markus Mehr</a> has been a busy man, amidst performing and working with visual artist Stefanie Sixt and putting the last touches on his next album he also found time to sit down with the folks at Digital in Berlin for a chat. Check it out <a href=\"http://11plus3.de/markus-mehr/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/62913817\" params=\"color=ff9900&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n<strong>Markus Mehr - \'Duck Became Swan\'</strong>','Interview with Markus Mehr in Digital in Berlin','','publish','closed','open','','interview-with-markus-mehr-in-digital-in-berlin','','','2016-02-03 15:52:05','2016-02-03 07:52:05','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7822',0,'post','',0),(7832,1,'2014-03-26 09:29:37','2014-03-26 09:29:37','Check out this fantastic video piece by <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/chadpeacock\" target=\"_blank\">Chad Peacock</a> for a public work by the wonderful <a href=\"http://www.stormiemills.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stormie Mills</a> as part of Re.Discover Bunbury 2014.  The video features the gorgeous sounds of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a> with their track \'Old At Heart\'.\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/89271315?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://vimeo.com/89271315\">Stormie Mills \'The Journey\'</a> from <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/chadpeacock\">Chad Peacock</a> on <a href=\"https://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.','PERTH Track Featured in Stormie Mills Video','','publish','closed','open','','perth-track-featured-in-stormie-mills-video','','','2016-02-03 16:48:38','2016-02-03 08:48:38','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7832',0,'post','',0),(7837,1,'2014-03-27 04:14:45','2014-03-27 04:14:45','<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM1_Ov-ont0\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7843\" alt=\"Kramies + Jason Lytle - \'Clocks Were All Broken\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Clocks-Screen-Grab-Small.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"145\" /></a>Hidden Shoal is excited to release the new video for Kramies\' gorgeous track \'Clocks Were All Broken\' which features the instrumental and production talents of <a href=\"http://jasonlytle.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Lytle</a> (Grandaddy). The song\'s theme of time standing still is rendered visually by experimental film-maker (and label manager) Cam Merton as a never-ending summer\'s day at the beach. As the track\'s aching synth melodies and voices echo and fracture, the blurred beachgoers begin to fade and multiply, receding into nothingness. Check the video out at <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM1_Ov-ont0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube</a> and <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/89983859\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a>.\n\n\'Clocks Were All Broken\' is taken from Kramies\' brilliant 2013 EP <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a>, which features collaboration and production from Jason Lytle and Todd Tobias (Circus Devils,Robert Pollard, Guided By Voices). 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Check it out along with a swathe of wonderful reviews and features <a title=\"Textura\" href=\"http://www.textura.org/pages/downloads.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136455420\" params=\"color=ff9900&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n<strong>Gilded - \'Cluttered Room (Shoeb Spartak’s Thriftstore Mix)\'</strong>','PERTH, Gilded &amp; Kramies at Textura','','publish','closed','open','','perth-gilded-kramies-textura','','','2016-02-03 16:06:31','2016-02-03 08:06:31','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7856',0,'post','',0),(7865,1,'2014-04-01 14:40:12','2014-04-01 14:40:12','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a>\' beautiful <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM1_Ov-ont0\" target=\"_blank\">music video</a> for his sumptuous collaboration with Jason Lytle, \'Clocks Were All Broken\', has just been featured at the awesome <a href=\"http://www.soundsbetterwithreverb.com/dreampop/kramies/\" target=\"_blank\">Sounds Better With Reverb</a> zine. The video was also chosen as the Video Pick of the Week at <a href=\"http://thecoloradosound.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Colorado Sound</a>. And to round it off the video was also featured at excellent blog, <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/kramies-2/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sunday Experience</a>. Check out their lovely write up,\n\n<em>\"Be honest, doesn’t this just stop you dead in your tracks frozen by the deep shiver running down your spine and with the delicate forming of a tear that threatens to escape the corner of your eye, utterly beautiful. New video from the Kramies for the track ‘clocks were all broken’ which comes peeled from their current EP ‘Wooden heart’ out via Hidden Shoal – also features Jason Lytle not that you need any further prods.\" -</em> <strong>The Sunday Experience</strong>\n\n<iframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/89983859\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>','New Kramies&#039; Music Video at Sounds Better With Reverb + More!','','publish','closed','open','','new-kramies-music-video-sounds-better-reverb','','','2016-02-03 15:46:49','2016-02-03 07:46:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7865',0,'post','',0),(7882,1,'2014-04-03 03:16:56','2014-04-03 03:16:56','<a href=\"https://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Slow Dancing Society - A Clearing\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/aclearing_LRG.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" /></a>‘A Clearing’ is the new single by US ambient artist Drew Sullivan (aka <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Slow Dancing Society</a>), taken from his forthcoming sixth album <em>The Cogent Sea</em>. ‘A Clearing’ sets the scene beautifully for <em>The Cogent Sea</em>\'s masterfully handled journey into new territory for Drew Sullivan. Gently overlapping waves of synthesizer are suspended amid sustained tones, holding the listener transfixed before Sullivan’s trademark guitar sound gently brings the listener back down to earth, transformed.\n\nSlow Dancing Society’s sixth album <em>The Cogent Sea</em> is another absorbing progression in Drew Sullivan’s discography, introducing elements such as saxophone and old-school drum machine rhythms into the mix. The album explores some of Sullivan’s more overt ’80s influences while also drawing upon elements from across Slow Dancing Society’s stunning, critically acclaimed back catalogue.\n\n‘A Clearing’ is available as a free download from <a title=\"Slow Dancing Society Bandcamp\" href=\"https://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp</a>. <em>The Cogent Sea</em> will see release on the 26th June 2014.\n\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/142789289\" params=\"color=ff9900&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" iframe=\"true\" /]','New Slow Dancing Society Track - Free Download + Stream','','publish','closed','open','','new-slow-dancing-society-track-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:11:36','2016-02-03 08:11:36','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7882',0,'post','',0),(7896,1,'2014-04-07 13:56:40','2014-04-07 13:56:40','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Clocks-Screen-Grab-Small.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7843\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Clocks-Screen-Grab-Small.jpg\" alt=\"\'Clocks Were All Broken\'\" width=\"193\" height=\"108\" /></a>The <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a> and Jason Lytle collaboration, \'Clocks Were All Broken\', and its beautiful new music video  has just received a glowing write up at the awesome <a href=\"http://www.recordrewindplay.co.uk/tracks/clocks-were-all-broken/\" target=\"_blank\">Record, Rewind, Play</a> blog,\r\n\r\n<em>\"Taken from Dutch-American singer and song-writer Kramies’ The Wooden Heart EP, and featuring the talents of the very excellent Jason Lytle, ‘Clocks Were All Broken’ is not so much a song as a dream fragment, slowly looping and pulsing. Round and round it goes, as you absorb its hidden textures, until suddenly its gone, at which point you’re aware that something is missing, just not quite sure what.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>I’d be forever happy if the song’s theme of time standing still – creating an eternally perfect moment like the trippy summer’s day at the beach – were somehow made real, its beautiful and dreamy psychedelia stretching out endlessly. As it is I have to make do with pressing repeat every four minutes, as indeed I have been doing for the last hour or so.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.recordrewindplay.co.uk/tracks/clocks-were-all-broken/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Record, Rewind, Play</strong></a>\r\n\r\nHead over to <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM1_Ov-ont0\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube</a> to watch the music video. 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Round and round it goes, as you absorb its hidden textures, until suddenly its gone, at which point you’re aware that something is missing, just not quite sure what.\n\nI’d be forever happy if the song’s theme of time standing still – creating an eternally perfect moment like the trippy summer’s day at the beach – were somehow made real, its beautiful and dreamy psychedelia stretching out endlessly. As it is I have to make do with pressing repeat every four minutes, as indeed I have been doing for the last hour or so.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.recordrewindplay.co.uk/tracks/clocks-were-all-broken/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Record, Rewind, Play</strong></a>','Kramies &#039;Clocks Were All Broken&#039; Reviewed at Record, Rewind, Play','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-clocks-broken-reviewed-record-rewind-play','','','2014-04-07 14:03:33','2014-04-07 14:03:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7905',0,'post','',0),(7908,1,'2014-04-07 14:09:18','2014-04-07 14:09:18','\"Grandaddy‘s Jason Lytle recently collaborated with Dutch-American songwriter Kramies on his EP ‘The Wooden Heart‘ (available now via Perth’s Hidden Shoal Recordings). With the help of Robert Pollard and Todd Tobias, Kramies delivered the dreamy single ‘Clocks Were All Broken’. This week label Manager Cam Merton unveiled the video (which he created himself) around the idea of time standing still and “a never-ending summer’s day at the beach”. The results are rather surreal, see for yourself…\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.soundsbetterwithreverb.com/dreampop/kramies/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sounds Better With Reverb</strong></a>','Kramies &#039;Clocks Were All Broken&#039; Reviewed at Sounds Better With Reverb','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-clocks-broken-reviewed-sounds-better-reverb','','','2014-04-07 14:09:18','2014-04-07 14:09:18','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7908',0,'post','',0),(6950,1,'2013-09-05 15:19:48','2013-09-05 15:19:48','<!--lazy-k-gallery-->','Gallery','Gallery','static','open','open','','gallery','','','2013-09-05 15:19:48','2013-09-05 15:19:48','',0,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/?p=6950',0,'post','',0),(7910,1,'2014-04-07 14:16:00','2014-04-07 14:16:00','\"Be honest, doesn’t this just stop you dead in your tracks frozen by the deep shiver running down your spine and with the delicate forming of a tear that threatens to escape the corner of your eye, utterly beautiful. New video from the Kramies for the track ‘clocks were all broken’ which comes peeled from their current EP ‘Wooden heart’ out via Hidden Shoal – also features Jason Lytle not that you need any further prods.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/kramies-2/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Sunday Experience</strong></a>','Kramies &#039;Clocks Were All Broken&#039; Reviewed at The Sunday Experience','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-clocks-broken-reviewed-sunday-experience','','','2014-04-07 14:16:00','2014-04-07 14:16:00','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7910',0,'post','',0),(9785,1,'2014-07-21 13:27:37','2014-07-21 13:27:37','[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 Closure</h1>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'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.\r\n\r\nWe still offer full support for those who have made purchases from the store before it\'s closure - sales [at] hiddenshoal.com.[/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 13:27:37','2014-07-21 13:27:37','',9780,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/9780-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9784,1,'2014-07-21 13:26:36','2014-07-21 13:26:36','[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-revision-v1','','','2014-07-21 13:26:36','2014-07-21 13:26:36','',9780,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/9780-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(7922,1,'2014-05-01 02:41:04','2014-05-01 02:41:04','<a href=\"https://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/wheres-my-dystopia\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7926\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/dystopia_MED.jpg\" alt=\"Where\'s My Dystopia?\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of the freely downloadable <a href=\"https://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/wheres-my-dystopia\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Where’s My Dystopia?</em></a> by Australian outfit <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">perth</a>, comprising remixes of tracks from the band’s acclaimed second album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/\"><em>What’s Your Utopia?</em></a>\r\n\r\nWhat’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 ‘<a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/perth-drank-and-kites-and\">Drank, Kites And Tomorrow</a>’ 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.\r\n\r\nperth’s second album <em>What’s Your Utopia?</em>, which forms the raw material for this new remix album, manages 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.\r\n\r\n<em>“Every part of this record coalesces together strangely, perfectly. And even among the towering, cinematic instrumentals perth 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’s review of <em>What’s Your Utopia?</em> in their best of 2013 round-up</strong>\r\n\r\nHead over to <a href=\"https://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/wheres-my-dystopia\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp</a> to grab your copy. Note it\'s a \"pay what you want\" but throw a zero in there and still feel good - we live to give! And if you\'ve not already indulged in the sonic and melodic majesty that is perth\'s sophomore album, <em>What\'s Your Utopia?</em>, then head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to grab yourself a copy on CD or in digital formats.\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4283625682/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e99708/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" seamless=\"\"></iframe>','PERTH Remix Album, Free Download!','','publish','closed','open','','perth-remix-album-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:06:15','2016-02-03 08:06:15','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7922',0,'post','',0),(9788,1,'2014-07-22 04:41:05','2014-07-22 04:41:05','If you\'re reading this on our new website then it\'s hardly news that we have a new website. But damn it we do! It\'s not just a makeover though as it represents some really exciting changes that we\'ve been working on at Hidden Shoal over the last 3 or so months. These changes mean we will be working in a much more collaborative way with our artists and you will now be able to buy all releases directly from them with 100% of the sales going to the artist. Cool! This means that the Hidden Shoal Store has met it\'s maker however and you can read a little note on that <a title=\"Store Notes\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/hidden-shoal-store/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>. We will also be acting as <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing/\">publisher</a> of our artists musical works and working our respective asses off to gain film, tv, web, game placements and other publishing opportunities. We will also be using this spanking new website to do lots more artist features, interviews, mixtapes and spotlight tracks amongst other fun things.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','New Website, New Moves!','','inherit','closed','open','','9786-revision-v1','','','2014-07-22 04:41:05','2014-07-22 04:41:05','',9786,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/9786-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(7951,1,'2014-05-19 03:03:38','2014-05-19 03:03:38','\"Perth are one of WA’s most enticing, yet mysterious and confounding, bands – not just for the un-Googleableness of their name. But it’s obvious how much they’re loved by those who know them. Their album <em>What’s Your Utopia?</em> catapulted Perth into the vernacular, and this remix album comes with expectation, which is met, fully. There’s a chilled house version of <em>Sunday Stroll</em>. GUM drives <em>Drank And Kites And Tomorrow</em> into a psych stratosphere, and the amazing Valerio Cosi gives <em>Old At Heart</em> a new lease on life. Stunning stuff, and more proof that Perth are groundbreaking.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://themusic.com.au/reviews/album/2014/05/01/perth-wheres-my-dystopia-cam-findlay/\" target=\"_blank\">The Music</a>','perth &quot;Where&#039;s Your Dystopia&quot; Reviewed at The Music','','publish','closed','open','','perth-wheres-dystopia-reviewed-music','','','2014-05-19 03:03:38','2014-05-19 03:03:38','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7951',0,'post','',0),(7955,1,'2014-05-19 03:10:46','2014-05-19 03:10:46','\"perth are a relatively new four piece with three quarters of the band from promising post-rock act Apricot Rail whilst the remaining quarter is songwriter Matthew Dolan. This is very much a band effort of course but Dolan may be the key ingredient which could deviate the other band members from the “rockier” inclinations that threatened to undermine their good work.\n\nIf they must be pigeon-holed, perth belong in the subcategory known as ambient rock but in reality this only tells a fragment of the story. Each song is lovingly arranged with contrasting layers whether it’s a keyboard wash, crying birds, breakbeats, brass or, on ‘Drank And Kites And Tomorrow’, vocals which seem to have been exhumed from some obscure psych rock act from the 1960′s. The gorgeous ‘Saw Promenade’ brings out the xylophone and its subtly romantic feel is brought to the fore by its post-rock-meets-dreamy easy listening backing. The eerie, glacial ‘Greasy Moon’ recalls the mysterious, lunar sounds of Avrocar, then there’s the curiously subdued electronica of ‘Sunday Stroll’ and the twinkling, starry beauty of ‘Collapsible Lung’. All are excellent, complex songs which seem to exist in their own universe. Even the finale ‘Viewmaster’ can’t resist a touch of weirdness as it mutates from a fairly understated acoustic rock number into an odd coda of what sounds like cuckoo clocks and then there’s a chilling hidden track characterised by choral samples and stately piano.\n\n‘What’s Your Utopia?’ is likely to be one of the most unusual albums you will hear over the course of a year. 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New video from the<strong> Kramies</strong> for the track <em>‘Clocks Were All Broken’ </em>which comes peeled from their current EP <em>‘Wooden heart’</em> out via Hidden Shoal – also features <strong>Jason Lytle </strong>not that you need any further prods.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2014/04/03/track-of-the-day-476-kramies-feat-jason-lytle-clocks-were-all-broken/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>God Is In The TV</strong></a>','Kramies (Feat Jason Lytle) &#039;Clocks Were All Broken&#039; Reviewed at God Is In The TV','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-feat-jason-lytle-clocks-broken-reviewed-god-tv','','','2014-05-19 03:30:03','2014-05-19 03:30:03','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7959',0,'post','',0),(7973,1,'2014-05-22 05:40:47','2014-05-22 05:40:47','<div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/folklore_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"The Folklore Sessions\" width=\"203\" height=\"203\" /></a></em>We\'re super excited to release <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-folklore-sessions\"><em>The Folklore Sessions</em></a>, the free new EP from Kramies. The EP features acoustic versions of songs from his two acclaimed Hidden Shoal EPs <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=188\"><em>The European</em></a> and <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-wooden-heart\"><em>The Wooden Heart</em></a>, plus the piano talents of <a href=\"http://grantswilson.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Wilson</a> (of Ghost Hunters TV show fame).\r\n\r\nWhile his previous EPs mined a wonderfully rich seam of atmospheric yet epic songcraft, <em>The Folklore Sessions</em> demonstrates that Kramies’ songwriting is just as stunning without the undeniable production talents of Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) and Todd Tobias (Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard, Circus Devils). With just his voice and acoustic guitar, plus languid piano backing by Grant Wilson, these stripped-back versions of <em>The European</em>’s ‘Antiquarian Days’, <em>The Wooden Heart</em>’s title track and ‘Sea Otter Cottage’ are given vivid new life through Kramies’ genuinely affecting performances.\r\n\r\n<em>“It’s rare to find dream-pop that resolves with such assured optimism, in which you can sense experience shifting into its proper place... Kramies seems to have mastered the talent of simply breathing it into shape”</em> – <strong>Misfit City on single and title track ‘The Wooden Heart’</strong>\r\n\r\nHead to <a href=\"http://kramies.bandcamp.com/album/the-folklore-sessions\" target=\"_blank\">Kramies\' Bandcamp</a> to grab the EP for free then head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to check out Kramies previous releases <em>The European</em> and <em>The Wooden Heart</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 450px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2676132242/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e99708/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" seamless=\"\"></iframe>','New Free Kramies EP Featuring Grant Wilson of Ghost Hunters!','','publish','closed','open','','new-free-kramies-ep-featuring-grant-wilson-ghost-hunters','','','2014-05-31 00:22:11','2014-05-31 00:22:11','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7973',0,'post','',0),(7979,1,'2014-05-23 08:29:42','2014-05-23 08:29:42','\"Dutch-American singer and song-writer Kramies has already released two hypnotic dream pop EPs for the Hidden Shoals label; now he’s taken tracks from both <em>The European</em> and <em>The Wooden Heart</em> to create an acoustic EP – <em>The Folklore Sessions</em>.\n\nIt’s sometimes said that to reveal the true heart of a song, you need to strip away the production, the extra flourishes, and reduce it to its simplest form. With only Kramies’ voice, acoustic guitar and the piano talents of Grant Wilson (Ghost Hunters), the tracks on <em>The Folklore Sessions</em> do exactly that, in the process revealing beautiful new moods and shades in their unhurried ambling.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.recordrewindplay.co.uk/news/free-download-kramies-the-folklore-sessions/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Record-Rewind-Play</strong></a>','Kramies &quot;The Folklore Sessions&quot; Reviewed at Record-Rewind Play','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-folklore-sessions-reviewed-record-rewind-play','','','2014-05-23 08:29:42','2014-05-23 08:29:42','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=7979',0,'post','',0),(7981,1,'2014-05-26 07:22:29','2014-05-26 07:22:29','','HS_Logo_Only_Black','','inherit','open','open','','hs_logo_only_black','','','2014-05-26 07:22:29','2014-05-26 07:22:29','',0,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/HS_Logo_Only_Black.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7982,1,'2014-05-26 07:30:59','2014-05-26 07:30:59','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"off\" background_color=\"#000000\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"dark\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h1>Latest Releases</h1>\r\n[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"dark\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; 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