<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/MMS_Reason_MED.jpg" align="left" height="150" width="150" />Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the new single ‘<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=6&amp;products_id=76">and having a reason why</a>’ by Australian ambient-rock artist <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/my-majestic-star/">My Majestic Star</a>, taken from the forthcoming sophomore album <em>Too Late, The Day</em>.

A twenty-first-century update of the sublime shoegaze sounds of Ride, My Majestic Star’s new single carries the listener across an expansive guitarscape with its distinctive bass-driven groove. ‘and having a reason why’ is a vertiginous wall of sound, suspended aloft with updrafts of delay and reverb and, for the first time on a My Majestic Star release, <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/chris-mason/">Chris Mason</a>’s heavenly vocals. This is dance music for sleepwalkers and dreamers.

<em>"My Majestic Star’s songs reach for the sky like all the best post-rock but you never get the sense he’s trying to blow your face off... Mason steers well clear of obvious influences. He manages to make music from relative isolation that like a lot of absolutely solo work tends towards the quiet and wounded... Ideas Are the Answer is optimistic from the title on down; this a record that respects and honors our melancholy without ever falling for the fallacy that it’s a permanent state of affairs"</em> – <strong>Stylus Magazine on the debut My Majestic Star album <em>Ideas Are The Answer</em></strong>

‘and having a reason why’ is now available from the <a href="http://agora.hiddenshoal.com">Hidden Shoal Recordings Store</a>. The single will be available for <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=6&amp;products_id=76">free download</a> until the new My Majestic Star album <em>Too Late, The Day</em> is released on 26th August 2008.

Check out a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-My_Majestic_Star_Single_Release.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> and download the single <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=6&amp;products_id=76">here</a>.

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/my_majestic_star/too_late_the_day/and_having_a_reason_why.mp3">My Majestic Star - and having a reason why</a>  <em> My Majestic Star - and having a reason why</em>