<img class="alignleft  wp-image-12367" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Tristes-Tropiques-Cover-300px.jpg" alt="Todd Tobias - Tristes Tropiques" width="248" height="248" />We’re excited to announce the forthcoming release of <em>Tristes Tropiques</em>, the new album by prolific multi-instrumentalist and producer <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/">Todd Tobias</a> (Circus Devils, Ricked Wicky, Robert Pollard). Hypnotic and melancholy-soaked, <em>Tristes Tropiques</em> draws comparisons to the eerie, transportive work of The Fun Years, The Gentleman Losers and Ian William Craig. Within his consistently excellent solo discography, <em>Tristes Tropiques</em> may prove to be Todd Tobias’s best work to date, sustaining its immersive atmosphere throughout its 45-minute run-time.

To get you in the mood the first single from the album, ‘Suvarnabhumi’, is out now and available for free download and streaming. <em>Tristes Tropiques</em> drops on the 9th of June 2015 through <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/">Hidden Shoal</a> and <a href="http://www.tinyroom.nl/">Tiny Room Records</a> and comes bundled with the gorgeous companion EP <em>Moorea</em>.

<em>Tristes Tropiques</em> takes its title from the book by French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss, which literally translates as “sad tropics”. Tobias sought to evoke far-flung places where indigenous cultures have either vanished or are in the process of being swallowed up by an ever-expanding global civilization. Sinister yet alluring, these musical environments throb with sensuality, danger and promise.