Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the CD re-issue of Our Man in Eden Hill by the Craig Hallsworth-led Australian outfit Tangled Star. The re-issue comes ahead of the release of the new Tangled Star EP, That Time, out on June 11th, with a single due in May.
Our Man in Eden Hill sees Tangled Star building on their brilliant debut outing through Hidden Shoal, It’s Now or Later. Musically the EP toys with the frayed edges of country, pop and indie, while in part infusing a sense of space and possibility familiar to fans of the classic Dark Side of the Moon. As with their debut EP, Our Man in Eden Hill’s surface often belies its musical and emotional interior. Through its gentle shifts and directed detours, the EP manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset.
“The rich, gentle roil of sound evidenced on Our Man in Eden Hill, the band’s third overall release, has the same surging, warmly anthemic sound of stellar forebears galore, each sonically different — the Triffids, Died Pretty, perhaps most inevitably the Go-Betweens — but which altogether seem to capture a sense and a style more than might be guessed, something detailed, mournful, and a little crushing even at its strongest; feedback and background flows of classic keyboards and steady drumming all interplaying behind lead singer Craig Hallsworth’s work. By putting it all together and adding their own touches — the suddenly thrilling funk/psych guitar shades on ‘The Skaters,’ for instance — Tangled Star help make a claim on something more than re-creation.” – Ned Raggett, All Music Guide.
Our Man in Eden Hill is now available on CD through Hidden Shoal’s distributor n5Mailorder. The album is also available through all good digital stores, including iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and the HSR Store. Check the Hidden Shoal Store for all distribution and availability details and read a full press release here.
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