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<h1>Todd Tobias</h1>
<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-9264" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg" alt="Todd Tobias" width="183" height="248" /></a><em>“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 </strong>

After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.

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<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>We Don't Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>
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<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.
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<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>
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Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style="font-style: italic;">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style="font-style: italic;">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It is an album of resonant beauty, as expansive as the wilds of North Wales from which it came, yet as delicate and intimate as a loved one’s breath upon your skin. Each song deploys a modest array of instruments and textures, giving them ample space to breathe and glow.
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<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It is an album of resonant beauty, as expansive as the wilds of North Wales from which it came, yet as delicate and intimate as a loved one’s breath upon your skin. Each song deploys a modest array of instruments and textures, giving them ample space to breathe and glow. The album’s scope is immediately apparent on breathtaking opener ‘The Slow Beginnings of a ‘A Fragile Acceptance’, where faint piano notes are overwhelmed by an aching surge of cellos, and the timeless, lingering chord progression of ‘The Siren, Hopelessly Lost’. Single ‘Endlessly’ weaves traces of nature with unearthly, oscillating tones before giving way to a strident piano theme. On ‘Doubt’, Jan Van Den Broek delivers the words of Paul Morley, cradled against a bed of melancholic piano, violin and cello, leaving an indelible emotional mark. ‘A Light From The Heavens’ almost feels like a natural conclusion to the album, with its sense of reflective yearning, but it is followed by the devastating metaphysical breakdown of ‘On Arrival at the Strange Museum’, a cavernous piece that calls out like some giant magnetic spirit.

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<h3>Biography</h3>
Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).

Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.

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<h3>News</h3>
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<h2>Reviews</h2>
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<h3>Press Releases</h3>
<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a>

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<h3>Music Videos</h3>
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<h3>Licensing</h3>
Todd Tobias's music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.

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