In support of Tangled Star’s recently released That Time EP through Hidden Shoal the band’s frontman Craig Hallsworth will be performing in-store at 78 Records (awesome Perth music store for you non perth folk) this Saturday at 1pm. Be sure to head down and soak in the man that Dave Cutbush has called “one of the most underrated West Australian songwriters of all time.”.

That Time is Tangled Star’s third EP through Hidden Shoal and features the stunning single ‘seabirdtown’. The single has received lots of radio and press love and is indicative of That Time’s strengths as a louder, more flowing version of the melodic, evocative spaces of Tangled Star’s twilight pop songs.

“…blessed with an acute ability to have you all at once marvelling aglow in subdued awe at the spectacle of their delicately calibrated caress like airy drift pop while simultaneously drawing you low amid the affecting undertow of bruised hurt.” - Losing Today

Tangled Star features the inimitable talents of Perth musical luminaries Craig Hallsworth (The Slow Beings, Outstation, Bamboos), Lorne Clements (The Slow Beings, A Minor Ache, Bing, Chimpy) and Jim Butterworth (Outstation).

The EP is available digitally through all good digital stores including the Hidden Shoal store and on CD through n5Mailorder and all good Perth music stores.

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Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the signing of electronica duo Down Review to its roster of artists.

Acclaimed electronic producers Medard Fischer (Arc Lab) and Tim Arndt (Near The Parenthesis) have never been in the same room nor even spoken. But from their online musical collaboration comes Down Review, melding their unique sensibilities to create a delicious hybrid - warm, human electronica for alienating times.

Down Review’s initial collaboration was featured on Near the Parenthesis’ album Of Soft Construction (n5MD, 2007). Their work on the track ‘Sitting in a Room’ was clearly a departure from the typical NTP aesthetic, situating Medard’s drum-programming wizardry and signature basslines beneath Arndt’s more ethereal creations. The result was arguably the album’s stand-out track, which “rather anomalously adds bass-heavy funkiness to the sparkling flow” (Textura).

Down Review’s debut EP From Here, For Anyone is to be released by Hidden Shoal on 11th August, preceded by the single ‘Anything is Everything’ on 9th July.

Read a full press release here and listen to a sneak preview of the upcoming single ‘Anything is Everything’ on Down Review’s Myspace page.

Sankt Otten guitarist extraordinaire Oliver Klemm is joining Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub as their live guitarist, and will make his live debut this October. Phillip Boa has  been a mainstay on the German indie scene for the last 20 years, and his Voodooclub are playing live shows with legendary Can drummer Jaki Liebzeit.

In more exciting Sankt Otten news, their stunning new album is finished and ready for release on Hidden Shoal on August 27th, preceded by a free single at the end of July. HOT!

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