Blog: Hidden Shoal Recordings

Sad news, Melbourne-based Umpire fans: the band have had to cancel their show at Phoenix Public House on 11/11/11. Fingers crossed for next year!

Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of the sumptious new album Remixed by Australian/US dreamgaze trio City Of Satellites. Remixed sees tracks from City Of Satellites' debut EP The Spook and album Machine Is My Animal receive the remix treatment from Manual, Syntaks, Tim Koch, Slow Dancing Society, Jatun, Tin Manzano and M-13. Tin Manzano's remix of the title track from Machine Is My Animal is a gorgeously seductive instrumental, where restraint and space are as alluring as [...]

• Hidden Shoal - City of Satellites -'Moon In The Sea (Slow Dancing Society Remix)'

Everyone's favourite widescreen indie-rockers Umpire are over in Melbourne early next month to launch their stunning debut album Now We're Active on the east coast. The band hit Phoenix Public House in Brunswick on Friday 11 November. Yes, that's 11/11/11. And yes, the band will be on stage, doing their thing, at 11.11pm. Something magical is bound to happen, like The Boredoms rising from the bowels of the earth while playing 11 drumkits. But even if they don't, it's going to be a darned good night.

Head over to the HSR blog to read a wonderful track by track breakdown of Liam Singer's 2010 masterpiece Dislocatia (by the man himself!). If that wasn't enough we're also giving away copies of the Dislocatia CD for two lucky folks. Read and win here !

Hidden Shoal is very excited to anounce the official release (including digital availability) of the Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society EP We Don't Look Back For Very Long . We Don't Look Back For Very Long sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society's four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS's glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, [...]

Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of new single ' Coal Miners Executive Club ' by Dutch-American singer-songwriter Kramies , taken from his forthcoming EP The European . Fusing masterful songwriting with electronics and atmospherics, 'Coal Miners Executive Club' is an emotionally resonant vortex of swooning pop that simply demands repeat listens. Built around an absolutely heartbreaking chord progression on synthesizer, the song is carried skyward as layers and layers of instruments build and build, Kramies' voice all the while intoning a timeless melody. 'Coal Miners Executive Club' is available for [...]

• Hidden Shoal - Kramies - 'Coal Miners Executive Club'

[The] Caseworker's awesome new album Letters From The Coast is recieving deserved love from press and radio following its recent release. The album is charting in the top 30 at both KJHK and Bagel Radio and has started to recieve strong airplay across other US college radio. More charting news soon! Letters From The Coast has also received a bunch of glowing reviews and press over the last few weeks in such fabulous publications and blogs as DOA , Noise , [...]

• [The] Caseworker - 'Boats'

Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of single 'Machine Is My Animal (Tin Manzano remix)' , taken from the forthcoming album Remixed by dreampop/shoegaze trio City Of Satellites , and its stunning accompanying video. Tin Manzano's re-working of the title track from City Of Satellites' debut album Machine Is My Animal weaves and loops the original's guitar hook amid electronic beats and surging, breathy textures. The result is a gorgeously seductive instrumental, in which restraint and space are as alluring as the sounds blooming across the stereo [...]

Hidden Shoal is very excited to be able to offer pre-orders for the limited edition CD release of the Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society EP We Don't Look Back For Very Long . Do get in quick though as we only have 60 of the available 100 units in our store. The remaining 40 will be available from Norman Records and Stashed Goods in the coming weeks. We Don't Look Back For Very Long sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow [...]

Just a quick update on the upcoming availability of pre-orders for We Don't Look Back For Very Long . Firstly we are very excited to announce that each CD package will include a printed copy of an absolutely beautiful essay on the EP by the wonderful Paul Morley. The CD release comes as a limited hand-numbered letterpress edition of 100 on beautiful 700gsm GF Smith board, custom made by Ian M. Hazeldine (AKA Antonymes) and expertly mastered by Wil Bolton. CD Pre-orders will also include an immediate digital download of the EP (15 [...]

The stunning album length film by Mark Solter and Laura Solter to accompany Scott Solter's re-issued glacial ambient masterpiece One River is now available for streaming at YouTube and Vimeo in its 33+ minutes full HD glory. The film comprises 7 visual movements echoing and expanding upon the 7 movements that make up One River . It truly is a beautiful visual spectacle. "Twins and Wives" will see a limited edition DVD release in the coming months.The One River album [...]

Instrumental-pop wizards Apricot Rail are supporting experimental rock geniuses Akron/Family on their 'Cosmic Birth Tour' this coming Tuesday at Mojos Bar in Fremantle. Akron/Family are touring on the back of their latest release S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT , while Apricot Rail have recently released ' Surry Hills ', an enchanting new single ahead of their sophomore album due next year. Tickets are available here and doors open 8pm. Enjoy!

Excerpt: "Scott Solter's "One River" is a digital and cd re-release of this US Ambient musician/producers album that was originally released on Tell-All records in 2005. Scott Solter wears many hats also being a remixer (such as Hidden Shoal artists Salli Lunn, The Caribbean and other artists such as Division day and Neon Indian), while working as a producer, mixer, recorder with the likes of Spoon, Superchunk, Mountain Goats, Okkervil River as well as being a member of the Balustrade Ensemble and Boxharp. He also had a release on the Manifold label in [...]

Excerpt: "To describe [Perth] local band Apricot Rail as a post rock band would be doing them an injustice. While sharing the ethos of post rock, their sound is more than just restricted to post rock (which is inevitable with a scene or a sound as becoming a restrictive genre). Described by Rave Magazine as "Imagine the ethereal pop of early Múm, the whimsy of Sigur Rós' more optimistic moments, and (occasionally) the emotional edge of The Twilight Sad. This is consummate indie post-rock laced with Australiana, and well worth checking out." They [...]

Excerpt: "... The band is made up of Conor and Eimer Devlin (Vocals and guitar and bass respectively) as well as Will Waghorn (Drums) and Monte Vallier (Guitar). Their fourth album "Letters from the Coast" was released by Hidden Shoal on September 22. Described by the label as "shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label - the perfect balance of drone and chime". The album has that sort of classic indie pop feel, that if you like the Umpire album you will appreciate [The] Caseworker. It has that balance of Dissonance and [...]

Excerpt: "Here's a great track by a band I'm really glad exists. Remember the '90s? Well I once went to King Tut's in Glasgow to see a great band called Swell. They had a brilliant support band called Half Film who played half an hour of dreamy slowcore. I listened to both their full-lengths for years until I discovered Conor and Eimer from the band were still making music. This time round, it was a bit faster and absolutely drenched in hooks. Bingo." Geeks Love To Maths Debate

Excerpt: "...This time, they amp up the dynamics a bit, resulting in an album that glides by like a sleek dream. Free song "National Runner" blends icy guitars and plangent bass to envelop distant, droning vocals, and the sound is hypnotic." Listen Dammit

Excerpt: "The album has that sort of classic indie pop feel, that if you like the Umpire album you will appreciate [The] Caseworker. It has that balance of Dissonance and Melody which is shown best on tracks such as "Dormer", "Boats", "Little Good it did for you". Without being too obvious with their influences (I detect a little Sonic Youth and the label hint at Yo La Tengo), the album has that degree of familiarity that makes it an easy and enjoyable listen." Twiceremoved

"Conor & Eimer Devlin (no relation, originally Irish, but relocated from these shores some years ago) form the core of this three-piece. They've produced a beguiling album of sunburst guitar melodies, sitting on a foundation of drone, with a thin gauze of hazy suspense draped over it. We've already spoken about the chiming single National Runner written about the Ethiopian long-distance athlete Miruts Yifter and it shares something of his relentless drive. The widescreen feel of Boats is created with banks of ringing, Byrdsian guitars, which combine for a [...]

Good things happening for The Caseworker as their new album "Letters From The Coast" scoops BAGel Radio's number 1 CMJ rotation add this week and KVMR's number 2 CMJ rotation add! The album has just gone out to US college radio so there will be more radio news as it comes to hand. The band have also scooped some nice early press and mentions at Noise , Twiceremoved , Listen Dammit , and Geeks Love To Maths Debate . A bunch more reviews on their way as well. Stay tuned and of course if [...]