Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the official release of the album, “A Taste Of” by Belgian dream pop outfit Colour Kane. Featuring a collaboration with Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins fame, “A Taste Of” is laden with honey coated, magisterial guitars, sweeping electronics and lush vocals.

A Taste Of features no shortage of blissed-out material but perhaps no songs are more heavenly than the anthemic “Share My Ease,” “Silya,” and, yes, “Seaside Dream” which constitute as magnificent a sampling of dream-pop as you’re likely to hear in this lifetime. Especially magnificent, the Guthrie collab teleports Colour Kane into another stratosphere altogether for three-and-a-half minutes of pop perfection. - Textura Magazine

“A Taste Of” is now available from all good digital music stores such as Itunes, eMusic, Sony Connect and Rhapsody. Listen to the album in full here.

Listen in to the wonderful ambient radio show, Kite Radio (playing on Stillstream) this week for a feature on the Wes Willenbring album, “Someone Somewhere Else“. Wes will be joining the host of the show for a bit of an online chat. If you’re lucky you may even catch some other gems from the HSR catalogue being played. The show broadcasts on Tuesday night from 10pm to 1am US Eastern time. Check out the Stillstream schedule for start times in other time zones.

To make up for Glassacre’s album tardiness, we’re giving away their first single, “Swimming in Greece” as a free download through the labels store until the end of April.

To grab the track hop along to the HSR Store, find the single then use this code to download the track for free: swiminglessons. Instructions for using gift codes in the store can be found under the Gift Vouchers link in the store.

Enjoy!

Ok it should be clear now that the Glassacre album that was scheduled for release this month is not going to be released this month. The boys have a special knack for re-invention at the final hour. The album should now be ready for a June pre-release. Glassacre will however be releasing the single, “September 16th” from the album in late May. The band are also currently in production for the music video to accompany the single, working with Australian video artist Sam Landels.

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