Blog: Hidden Shoal Recordings

Excerpt: "One might expect Boxharp to sound similar to The Balustrade Ensemble given that Boxharp duo Scott Solter and Wendy Allen are also members of the outfit that produced 2007's wonderful Capsules for Dynamophone Records. As it turns out, the groups' sounds are rather different, with the four tracks on Loam Arcane indicating that Boxharp's the poppier unit of the two... Admittedly, a similar baroque sensibility to The Balustrade Ensemble permeates the EP's disorientating opener 'FanFin' when it somersaults through jerkily acrobatic vocal melodies and a rich [...]