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As part of our 5th birthday celebrations , over the coming weeks we'll be looking back at the history of Hidden Shoal, year by year, casting some light on artists and releases that may have been overlooked. For one week, all releases from the year covered will be available from the Hidden Shoal Store with a 50% discount. Flavoursome! Hidden Shoal Recordings began in Perth, Western Australia in May 2006. The motivation behind starting the label was to release music by Hidden Shoal's very own Cam Merton (Glassacre), Stu Medley (Motor Eye) and Mal Riddoch [...]

Excerpt: "I am always ecstatic to see new emails and records from Hidden Shoal Recordings, a Perth, Western Australia-based label who have quickly become one of my favorite experimental music outposts over the past year. They consistently release adventurous ambient/drone, shoegaze and pop that is radiant and textured and expansive and dense with incandescent ticks from around the world." Pelly Twins

Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the signing of Danish spectral noise-rock quartet Salli Lunn to its roster of artists. Salli Lunn weave dark magic in the bleak hinterland of guitar-driven atmospherics, stirring in equal parts pop melody and angular noise. Songs rise and fall in vertiginous shifts, carried by thunderous rhythms, skewed guitar patterns and the compelling vocal presence of Lasse Skjold Bertelsen. Across the expansive terrain of debut album Heresy and Rite , Salli Lunn are utterly bewitching. Heresy and Rite is released internationally through Hidden Shoal [...]

Excerpt: "Yesterday I knew nothing about the existence of Iretsu. Today I'm anxiously awaiting May 27, when I can hear the rest of their new album. This track reminds me of how music used to sound when I was 18 and everything was new to me... it just sounds fresh compared to most of the things I've been hearing for a while" You Ain't No Picasso

The Hidden Shoal Blog is now up and running! Hot on the heels of the release of their new single ' The Green ', Boxharp took a moment to chat about their creative process. Read the interview here , and download the new single for free here .

Portland, Oregon's irrepressible avant-pop trio Iretsu are set to release their new album Fang through Hidden Shoal on 27th May. Fang is the superb follow up to their critically acclaimed album The Moon And Stars Remain In The Morning Sky and the equally ace Name Our Numbers, Numbers EP, and will be preceded by the release of single 'Humbuzzer' next Wednesday, 31st March. Over to Iretsu's Ryan to offer some insight into how the new record took shape: "We wanted to write a record full of intention, a fun, diverse, [...]

Excerpt: "While the material Oxfordshire-born Anthony Saggers has thus far released has been modest in amount, there is still enough that a Stray Ghost 'sound' has come into focus. The two full-lengths he's issued, 2008's Losthilde on Highpointlowlife Records and 2009's An Avalanche of Swollen Tongues on Dead Pilot, opt for an uncompromising dark ambient style that can make the listener feel as if he/she has been spirited away on a one-way tour through Hell—memorable recordings, for sure, but not what you'd call calm-inducing. All of which [...]

Tarcutta are playing two shows in Melbourne in the lead-up to Christmas, both with Jshwa and the Owls. This coming Sunday, 13th December, they're playing at Edinburgh Castle with special guests The Kinship. Then, on Sunday 20th December they're playing at Bar Open with special guests Winternationale, the new project of The Spheres' Guy Harris. Tarcutta's self-titled debut album will be available on CD at both shows, or you can grab it in CD and mp3 format from the Hidden Shoal Store .

Mukaizake's superb album Unknown Knowns is launched on CD this Friday night at the Amplifier Bar, Perth. Support comes from The Preytells and Hang On St Christopher, with Hidden Shoal's very own Cam Merton spinning the wheels of steel between sets. It's gonna be a night to remember, so if you're in Perth this weekend, be sure to check it out. As well as being on sale at the show, Unknown Knowns is available in CD and mp3 format from the Hidden Shoal Store .

Mukaizake's stunning new album Unknown Knowns is local feature album all this week on Perth's stupendously fine independent radio station RTRfm . Tune in to 92.1FM to hear tracks from the record and for the chance to win CDs. Visit the Hidden Shoal Store to stream tracks and purchase the album in mp3, CD and lossless formats.

Excerpt: "A stellar work of ambience, Chromatic Sigh refracts the sound of cool intelligence. As far as descriptions go, you can trot out the usual suspects, like shimmering and sparkling, because they apply in abundance. The artist, Elisa Luu from Rome, Italy, composes with a maturity and patience that you can hear on this refined debut... There's something cyclical about the music on Chromatic Sigh , and electronically this places listeners in the wondrous open spaces that still boom quietly in our natural world. These spaces are Elisa Luu's sonic gift to the chumps stranded in suburbia [...]

Elisa Luu's stunning album Chromatic Sigh has just received a wonderful review over at the equally wonderful review site Delusions of Adequacy . Visit DoA to read the review in full, and scoot by the Hidden Shoal Store to listen to a full stream and purchase the album in CD and mp3 format.

Sankt Otten's Morgan Wieder Lustig and Elisa Luu's Chromatic Sigh have just been reviewed on the ever-excellent music site Textura , who named Hidden Shoal as one of their favourite music labels in 2007. Visit Textura to read the reviews, and pop along to the Hidden Shoal Store to stream both albums in full and purchase in CD and mp3 format.

Glowing reviews of new releases by Elisa Luu , My Majestic Star and Sankt Otten have been published in the last two editions ( October and November ) of monthly Norwegian e-zine Luna Kafe . (The eagle-eyed will also note that there's an entry for Wes Willenbring's stunning single 'Oh, Most' in the October edition too, but no review!) All of these wonderful releases are available for streaming and purchase from the Hidden Shoal Store .

Excerpt: "with only a handful of instruments at their disposal, the variation they achieve from song to song is impressive, to say the least. Over the course of eight tunes, this Aussie band continually applies an 'everything but the kitchen sink' approach in which guitars (Justin Buckley), keyboards (Justin Wheelahan), and drums (Peter Barrett) will sometimes explore upwards of a half dozen different ideas in just as many minutes... their attempts to explore so much terrain yield high dividends, as it frequently does whenever the melodic instruments weave a patchwork quilt of lustrous melodic fragments... There's plenty of promise in [...]

Tarcutta's superb self-titled debut album has just received a glowing review over at the ever-excellent Delusions of Adequacy music review site. Tarcutta is available in CD and mp3 format from the Hidden Shoal Store . Tarcutta - Flaghags Must Die Tarcutta - Flaghags Must Die

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Excerpt: "Their self-titled album is a very poignant and layered affair; a piece of art that attempts to paint pictures with ambient noise, chiming chords, simple brass and the occasional glock. At times the music is soft and introverted, as the elegantly titled 'If You Can't Join Them, Beat Them', while at others songs take a more urgent, somewhat heavy approach such as opener 'A Public Space'... The lads [and lass!] have put together the foundations for a very interesting record... they should be highly commended." Drum Media

Apricot Rail's self-titled album has received a warm review in Sydney's Drum Media magazine. You can read the review here . Grab a copy of this great debut at the Hidden Shoal Store . Apricot Rail - If You Can't Join Them Beat Them Apricot Rail - If You Can't Join Them Beat Them

HC-B 's album Soundcheck For A Missing Movie is getting some US college radio action, coming in at #26 on the WFDU Top 30! Get your paws on this delicious album at the Hidden Shoal Store . HC-B - Missing Movie HC-B - Missing Movie

Excerpt: "This four track EP opens with variations of melodic chords soaking the upper register, and combines pristine drum and synth programming. It is quite obvious that the form is predominantly electronic, yet it has all the hallmarks of post-rock sensibility and sonic attunement. 'Archive' clothes itself in manipulated crowd samples before launching into a layered drum, synth and bass combination. 'Always Enough' weaves bright tones, dub sensibility and chopped up samples in highly wrought simplicity. 'All In' closes the album, playing with an almost anthemic extended chord, a hybrid drum beat and chirping bright synth which builds to dominate [...]