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Excerpt: "Quality Instrumental Post-Rock with a fierce emotion that will blast your face off for its entirety. This album is a stroke of magnificence that is rare in the world today. It transcends the regular notions of what music is, creating a radical art form that emphasizes perfection... The songs blend together to form a tsunami of shredding guitars, loud violins, free horns, booming basses and hammering drums... One of the greatest of its genre, and one of the greatest in music." WRUV Reviews

HC-B's latest album, Soundcheck for a Missing Movie, has received mighty praise (and then some) on Vermont college radio station WRUV. Hop across to WRUV to read this glowing review. Anything that is going to "blast your face off for its entirety" is definitely something you'll want to get involved with. Soundcheck for a Missing Movie is available at the Hidden Shoal Store . HC-B - A Dusty Book, A City of Lights HC-B - A Dusty Book, A City of Lights

HC-B's album Soundcheck For A Missing Movie is still getting a great deal of playtime- American station CMJ has ranked HC-B #10 in its latest Top 30! Well deserved! Soundcheck For A Missing Movie is available from the Hidden Shoal Store . HC-B - Soundcheck For A Missing Movie HC-B - Soundcheck For A Missing Movie

A track from HC-B, A Dusty Book, A City of Lights , is featured on the latest Electrical Language Podcast . This is a beautiful track off an equally beautiful album- get to the Hidden Shoal Store to bag yourself a copy. HC-B - A Dusty Book, A City of Lights HC-B - A Dusty Book, A City of Lights

Hidden Shoal releases continue to get loved up by radio, this time by excellent Canadian station CITR where HC-B's spellbinding album Soundcheck for a Missing Movie is sitting pretty at number 4 in their top 30 chart. The album is also on heavy rotation at a number of US college station inlcuding Berkely's awesome KALX . More HC-B radio news soon! HC-B Black HC-B Black

Excerpt (translated from the Italian): "A remarkable quantity of electric, acoustic and electronic instruments, and voice used occasionally, with which HC-B create their imaginative soundtracks, unifying post-punk, post-rock and the avant-garde in eclectic compositions. More authoritative and intriguing than their album Sliding On Barents Sea (2003), Soundcheck For A Missing Movie hypnotizes with eight complex episodes, where physical flashes sometimes break cerebral and emotional harmonies' calm." Il Mucchio Selvaggio

Excerpt (translated from the Italian): "two different faces in one soul: the first dissonant, moving music of legendary proportions in loud masses with a large ensemble; the second introverted, defined by math-rock grids. HC-B's aesthetics are oriented to the reconstruction of livid and rough landscapes... Obscure and violent emotions, mitigated by the magical artifices of poetry. 8/103 Rockerilla

Excerpt: "Sicilian quintet HC-B have bundled together a glorious collection of tracks here that summons the restraint and patience of bands like The For Carnation, the energy and effervescence of math-rock, and a gorgeous melodic sensibility that reminds us all why we liked post-rock in the first place... an album of small details - gutteral guitars are lifted up by wisps of white noise, delicate passages float by just that little bit smoother via backing theremins, and the occasional string section adds the requisite cinematic flourishes for which the album claims its title... enough inspired twists and solid jams to [...]

HC-B's cinematic epic Souncheck For A Missing Movie has just received excellent reviews from Italy's Rockerilla and Il Mucchio Selvaggio, and Perth's Drum Media. Visit's HC-B's reviews section to read excerpts of these and more reviews. Soundcheck For A Missing Movie is now also available through Australian mail order company Waterfront. Visit the Hidden Shoal Store for all availability info. HC-B Crystal Lane HC-B - Crystal Lane

Excerpt: "The band takes us on a journey through images they have captured in their mind, reforming them into a wide variety of tracks, ranging from cliff-hanging moments featuring crashing cymbals and feedback-laden electric guitar to the romantic and melodic sound of glockenspiels and strings. The group not only showcases these elements expertly, but infuses them together along with the sounds of trumpets, samples, clarinet, powerful bass guitar, piano, and synth sounds... Soundcheck for a Missing Movie is a must-listen for its unique, post rock-based take on the usual symphonic movie soundtrack we expect in our heads, a [...]

HC-B's cinematic opus Soundcheck For A Missing Movie has just received a glowing review on post-rock review site The Silent Ballet . Visit TSB to read the review in full, or pop along to HC-B's reviews section for an excerpt. Soundcheck For A Missing Movie is available in CD and mp3 format from the HSR Store . HC-B Crystal Lane HC-B - Crystal Lane

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It's a feast of Italian instrumental rock on DJ Mojo's Maximum Music this week. His July 14th podcast on Breakthru Radio features tracks from Dilatazione and HC-B alongside Tortoise and Sunset Rubdown. Mojo's shows are always amazing, so be sure to download the latest feast. Dilatazione's Too Emotional For Maths and HC-B's Soundcheck For A Missing Movie are available from the HSR Store . HC-B Hot Afternoon In The Bulls' Square HC-B - Hot [...]

Excerpt (translated from the Italian): "Today it's so hard to find an album that communicates so much; a disc which transmits true emotions... This is a well-played album that marks an evolution from their previous album Sliding on Barents Sea (2003)." Beat, June 2009

Excerpt (translated from the Italian): "HC-B are five Italian guys from Catania that have been playing together for 10 years... a fusion of sound and images, long phrasings, evident rhythms. Their music is independent rock; in fact, there aren't any pop motifs nor banal verse/refrain structures, moving away from any known definitions toward its own universe." I Love Sicilia, May 2009

Excerpt: "This is an album that is vast in scope and imagination. Ranging from the seductively melodic, through to thrillingly intense and dramatic movements, it will both stimulate and captivate the listener. Its power is that it successfully creates a labyrinth of vivid visual images within your mind, like those left behind by the man who provided the inspiration... The album triumphantly builds towards several peaks of symphonic brilliance. Attention to detail, well developed ideas, and formidable instrumentation are all very much to the fore... It is little wonder that Hidden Shoal Recordings have been likened to 4AD. Bringing expansive music of this quality, [...]

Excerpt (translated from the Italian): "The new album of HC-B, an underground band of exceptional quality, already shown in their previous works, surprises with some audacious deeds and the development of their arrangements... Here we have a massive hard rock orchestra with some overflowing woodwinds, a sweet trumpet ballad, strings-rich post-folk, noise-rock backed by metronomic drums, and moments approaching the visionary Godspeed You Black Emperor!" Blow Up #133, June 2009

HC-B's stunning album Soundcheck For A Missing Movie has just received glowing reviews in Blow Up, Blog Critics , Beat and I Love Sicilia. Check out HC-B's reviews section for excerpts. Visit the HSR Store to stream the album in full, and to purchase the album in CD or mp3 format. HC-B Missing Movie HC-B - Missing Movie

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Excerpt: "Think Giardini di Mirò's the only 'Italian instrumental rock' outfit worth listening to? Not if HC-B has anything to say about it, as proven by the Sicilian quintet's explosive, fifty-five-minute opus Soundcheck for a Missing Movie ... What distinguishes HC-B's sound is the energy and intensity which they bring to its material—even a somber, two-minute interlude such as 'Dead Horse Walking' feels on the verge of detonation, and much the same could be said for the dreamy 'Slow Compensation' and Red -like 'Crystal Lane.' Soundcheck for a Missing Movie may be a studio recording [...]

HC-B's Soundcheck For A Missing Movie and RL/VL's Chagrin have both received glowing reviews in this month's edition of the superb music site Textura . Visit Textura to read the reviews in full, or visit the respective artist review sections to read lovingly edited excerpts. HC-B Hot Afternoon In The Bulls' Square HC-B - Hot Afternoon In The Bulls' Square

HC-B's recent Italian tour in support of the release of their new album Soundcheck For A Missing Movie has yielded two cracking live videos: ' Playing With Planes ' and ' Missing Movie '. The band will be touring Italy again in October.