<img class="alignright" title="Kramies" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg" alt="" width="165" height="165" /><img class="alignright" title="[The] Caseworker" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/thecaseworker.jpg" alt="" width="107" height="165" />Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the signing of garage-dreampop trio <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/the-caseworker/">[The] Caseworker</a> and Dutch-American singer-songwriter <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/">Kramies</a> to its roster of artists.

With each successive release, garage-dreampop trio [The] Caseworker deliver their own timeless sonic magic. Their upcoming 2011 album <em>Letters From The Coast</em> has the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label – the perfect balance of drone and chime. The band creates an enigmatic intimacy and atmosphere, which they wrap around immaculately crafted pop songs like smoke. Perfectly intoxicating.

Dutch-American  singer-songwriter Kramies has been honing his inimitable craft  for many years, bewitching all who have heard his music along the way.  Fusing masterful songwriting with electronics and atmospherics, stepping  into a Kramies song means being swept up into an emotionally resonant  vortex of swooning pop that simply demands repeat listens.

[The] Caseworker's new single 'National Runner' is released on 18 August, with their new album <em>Letters From The Coast</em> released on 22 September. Kramies new EP <em>The European</em> is released on 22 November with a single preceding the release in October.