Hidden Shoal News
Slow Dancing Society in Echoes Top 25 and CJAM top 30!
Yet another Slow Dancing Society album has found itself in the Echoes Top 25. The Cogent Sea has been getting heavy rotation on Echoes and the more than 130 stations the show is re-broadcast on. The album is also getting healthy spins at CJAM (Canada) where’s its charting at 22 in their top 30! Nice.
If you’ve not had the pleasure of soaking in this beautiful album then head here where you can buy and stream the album in full along with the rest of the SDS discography.
Brother Earth at Backseat Mafia
More review love for Brother Earth‘s first single from their forthcoming album Positive Haywires. ‘Out Like a Lion’ just received a wonderful write up at the very cool Backseat Mafia blog. Here’s a taste,
“It’s this slightly eerie, claustrophobic indie pop song that opens with these clicks and ethereal shimmering backing, sugared with the backing vocals and a melody line that leads you through. As it continues, so it gets less sure of itself, almost reticent scared almost as around every corner there seems to be a (musical) surprise with these increasingly urgent splashes of discordant noise… It’s surprising and experimental, and quite beautiful.” – Backseat Mafia
‘Out Like a Lion’ is available for free download along with the latest Brother Earth single ‘City of Gold’ from the band’s Bandcamp. Positive Haywires drops on the 16th September with pre-orders available now.
Slow Dancing Society at Luna Kafe
Slow Dancing Society‘s sixth album, The Cogent Sea, continues to receive deserved love. Our friends at Luna Kafe have posted a beautiful write of the album in their latest edition. Check out a taste below and read the full review here.
“Captain Sullivan steers the submarine deeper and deeper, and we can hear, feel and sense the sound of silence from the outside. Nothing. Maybe with the exception of tiny beeps from the sonar. Echo beeps. The vessel (of the Sullivan-class?) glides through the sea, at half speed, propellers turned off, and everything feels so brilliantly splendid. It is a pleasure ride for sure. Come on. Check in. Enjoy.” – Luna Kafe
The Cogent Sea is available in digital formats and CD via Bandcamp. Check out more Slow Dancing Society releases here.
Brother Earth Reviewed at The Underground of Happiness
The lovely Conor O’Toole at The Underground of Happiness has just posted a delicious review of the Brother Earth single ‘Out Like a Lion‘. Check out a tasty grab below and read the whole thing here.
“Like Elliot Smith at his best, this tune is hardly there at all in one way, it’s kinda wispy. However, the elements are so brilliantly and subtly put together, you’ll find you’ll need repeated listens to figure them out. Haunting stuff.” – The Underground of Happiness
Brother Earth’s latest single ‘City of Gold’ is also now available ahead of the release their brilliant forthcoming album Positive Haywires (Sept 16th). Check it out here.
Brother Earth ‘City of Gold’ – Stream + Download
‘City of Gold’ is the second single taken from Brother Earth‘s brilliant forthcoming album Positive Haywires (16th Sept 2014) through Hidden Shoal. If their first single ‘Out Like A Lion‘ saw Brother Earth creeping around in the darkness weaving mesmerising magic, ‘City Of Gold’ sees them breaking into the light as fist-pumping power chords carry the song into the same realm of lo-fi rock classicism as prime GBV. This is epic dream-rock, packed into a running time of just over a minute.
Download the song for free via Bandcamp or stream it at SoundCloud. Positive Haywires drops on the 16th of September with pre-orders available soon.
New Involved Single – Stream + Download
The beautiful lead single from Involved‘s forthcoming debut album Revolving Maze is upon us! On ‘Machiavella’, Involved open the curtains to a widescreen electronic classic. One part ’90s IDM gravitas, one part cosmic electronica, one part driving sci-fi soundtrack, the song pulses with drama and ambience across its five-and-a-half-minute run time.
Download the single via Bandcamp or stream it at SoundCloud. Involved’s stunning debut, Revolving Maze, drops on the 19th September. Check out more on Involved here.
DrAlienSmith and Kryshe Sign to Hidden Shoal
We have some very exciting news to share, with two new wonderful artists joining the Hidden Shoal family!
Perth-based producer and musician Al Smith, working under the DrAlienSmith moniker, has signed a publishing deal for his brilliant 4 track EP Under Songs, a monolithic slab of doom/shoegaze/post-rock. Smith’s other life sees him mixing and mastering other people’s recordings at Bergerk! Studios, and over the last 15 years he’s worked with more than 300 bands, including The Devil Rides Out, Drowning Horse, Abbe May, Eleventh He Reaches London, Claim The Throne and Extortion, as well as Hidden Shoal’s own Tangled Star. Check out the EP and more on DrAlienSmith here.
At the other end of the sonic spectrum and a hemisphere away we have Germany-based ambient experimental musician Kryshe (Christian Grothe). The stunning In Between EP will be released through Hidden Shoal on 25th September, as well as being added to the Hidden Shoal publishing catalogue. Kryshe’s exquisitely subtle and detailed ambient work is reminiscent of the collaborative work of Eno and Budd, as delicate yet assured melodies unfurl before being subjected to delicate manipulation. Read more about Kryshe here and be sure to sign up to the Hidden Shoal mailing list to be informed of the EP release.
Both In Between and Under Songs will also join the Hidden Shoal licensing catalogue and be available for all film, tv, games and web projects.
PERTH Soundtracks “PUBLIC: Art in the City” Video
Slow Dancing Society and PERTH Reviewed at Music Won’t Save You
Our favourite Italian blog, Music Wont Save You, featuring our favourite Italian music writer, Raffaello Russo, has just published glowing reviews of Slow Dancing Society‘s The Cogent Sea and perth‘s Where’s My Dystopia? If you’re not fluent in Italian you may need help from the Google machine.
Pippin Drysdale Documentary Soundtrack
Hidden Shoal has recently had more music placed in another wonderful production. The fantastic short ABC documentary “Pippin Drysdale And Warrick Palmateer: The Perfect Thing” by Chad Peacock and Lauren McDonough features tracks by Hidden Shoal’s My Majestic Star and Slow Dancing Society. The doco is a beautiful exploration of the working relationship between two of Australia’s most talented ceramicists. Stream it online at the ABC Arts website. Congrats to Chad and Lauren for such a great piece.