<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/wildride_LRG.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="200" align="left" /><a href="http://http://music.hiddenshoal.com">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> is proud to announce the release of ‘Wild Ride’, the second single from <em><a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=31&amp;products_id=147">On Holiday</a> </em>by shadowy lounge-pop maestro Rich Bennett.  The track will be available for <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4lql237">free download</a> for a limited time.

After the deliciously breezy pop of single ‘Misty Valley, ‘Wild Ride’ is where <em>On Holiday’s</em> anxious undertones begin to creep in more forcefully. In a similar vein to Rich Bennett’s fantastic recent release <em><a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=31&amp;products_id=161">Buddy Cop</a></em>,  ‘Wild Ride’ is constructed from the juiciest synth sounds, coming  across like edgy ‘80s electronica. A fat, arpeggiated bassline is  layered with aching melodies, over which Bennett’s urgent vocal line is  shadowed by Rebecca Pronsky. ‘Wild Ride’ distills Bennett’s mastery of  disparate genres into a perfectly brooding synth-pop nugget. The track  is accompanied by a wonderfully playful found-footage music video.

The music of supermarkets, elevators and doctor’s offices has been  floating around inside Brooklyn resident Rich Bennett’s head since he  was born. It’s no wonder that Bennett’s music seems to spring from those  delightfully soporific melodies he heard as a child riding in his mom’s  shopping cart. Bennett’s debut solo outing Music For Underwater  Supermarkets is the glistening fruit of a retreat back to those aisles. <em>On Holiday</em> explores these atmospheres further, creating dark and complex pop  music, featuring Bennett’s vocals for the first time. Bennett’s recent    mini-album Buddy Cop saw him create a soundtrack to an imaginary film -  a retro-futuristic love affair between Ennio Morricone and John  Carpenter.

<em>“… an experiment in the emotionally-ached and the musically placid … a    sense of risky songwriting elevates On Holiday as a whole … Rich   Bennett  is trying to do something incredibly ambitious, and maybe to a   fault,  taking the essentials of lounge, something almost universally   joked  about, and recording them in a new context and for a new   audience.” </em>–  <strong>Delusions of Adequacy</strong>

<em> “This is the perfect blend of cheesy lounge flavour cut with a scary    ambience that is like a deserted shopping centre in the 1970s where    someone left the music running. Underneath all of that NY’s Rich  Bennett   and co. are a pretty gifted bunch of songwriters as well.  People have   heard everything from Bacharach to Morricone in this; some  of them call   it retro-futurist pop, I call it fantastic.”</em> – <strong>4zzz</strong>

<strong>Availability</strong>

‘Wild Ride’ is available for <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4lql237">free download from the Hidden Shoal Store</a> for a limited time and the accompanying music video can be streamed on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCFkgXwplhY">Youtube</a>. <em>On Holiday</em> is available on CD and mp3 format from the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/38vt7gs">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and distributed via <a href="http://tinyurl.com/38t55ze">n5Mailorder</a>.

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