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<h1>Craig Hallsworth</h1>
<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Craig-Edit-4-BW.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-14807" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Craig-Edit-4-BW-300x255.jpg" alt="Craig Hallsworth" width="287" height="244" /></a><i>“Craig Hallsworth knows his way around a tune with this set of sparkling power-pop, set with a country twang and cosmic touch”</i><strong><i> –</i> <b>2ser on Tangled Star’s album </b><em><b>Let’s Adjourn to the Garden</b></em></strong>

Craig Hallsworth attempts to resingularise, for himself, the experience of a rock or pop song. He doesn’t approach it from the outside, in terms of styles or genres, but from the inside, as a field of affects and intensities. For him, songs are about the desire to play guitars and drums and to sing, expressing the poetry, humour and absurdity of a person finding themselves in this situation.

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<h4> 'We’re Too Far Away (My Other Future, My Other Youth)'</h4>
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‘We’re Too Far Away (My Other Future, My Other Youth)’ is the first single taken from <em>What’s The Story With This Hole?</em>, the debut solo album by Western Australian songwriter Craig Hallsworth.

With over 30 years of songwriting experience under his belt, Craig Hallsworth makes <em>What’s The Story With This Hole?</em> feel effortless yet boundless. Recorded and produced with long-time collaborator Al Smith (DrAlienSmith, Bergerk Studios), the album represents the most musically developed and fully realised recording the pair have delivered to date. On the surface, these are perfectly composed and innately melodic pop/rock songs, with Hallsworth’s guitars alternately shimmering and snarling around his unmistakably keening vocals. The real magic, however, lies a little concealed; songs often end up somewhere very different from where they started, and Hallsworth’s often surreal lyrical excursions act in striking counterpoint to the music.

It’s this juxtaposition that makes <em>What’s The Story With This Hole?</em> so special – musically rich and familiar sounds taken into unrelated narrative territories. In Hallsworth’s own words, <em>“To me, the mysterious undecidability in the words plays a crucial part in the overall experience of the songs, making them events of sense and sensation. It isn’t so much that I consider the lyrics to be poetry, but I think a sense of poetry would be useful in approaching these songs.”</em>

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<h3>Biography</h3>
Craig Hallsworth was the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in Perth bands and projects The Bamboos, The Healers, wild palms, Zuvuya, Outstation, <a title="The Slow Beings" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-slow-beings/">The Slow Beings</a> and <a title="Tangled Star" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/tangled-star/">Tangled Star</a>. <i>What’s The Story With This Hole? </i>is his debut solo release on Hidden Shoal. He is currently working on his second.

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<h3>Licensing</h3>
Craig Hallsworth'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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