Blog: Hidden Shoal Recordings

Excerpt: " If there is one thing Tarcutta displays in its knack for opening tracks, it's the ability to both write great melodies and, perhaps more importantly, use them smartly. 'Liberace Fibonacci's opening organ riff demonstrates this perfectly: it's immediately grabbing but doesn't outshine the rest of the piece. Rather, snippets and reinterpretations of it show up throughout the song, giving it a nicely unified, decidedly song-like feel without resorting to a verse-chorus-verse structure... their debut does arguably what a debut should be doing: it samples a bit of everything from the sonic palette the band has available. Above all, [...]