The wonderfully titled Nefarious Bovine Radio has recently featured the track ‘Modernity Sux Ass’ from ambient maestros Enargeia on their latest podcast. Weirdly, alongside Dire Straits…

Tangled Star’s Craig Hallsworth has just revealed some exciting news about the band’s next step following their glorious release It’s Now or Later:

“Tangled Star are currently working on new material for an EP / mini album to be recorded in the spring of 2007. This involves the usual set-up of myself on guitar and vocals, James Butterworth on bass, vocals and some drum machine programming, and Lorne Clements playing various keyboards, as well as (for the first time in T-Star) an actual drum kit. At this stage, we are looking at six new songs – ‘tosleepingpeople’, ‘The Skaters’, ‘Sentimental Warrior’, ‘Turn Me’, ‘Sunny Day Losers #12 & 35’, ‘The Waiter Is Deceased’ – no doubt our most focused, immediate and accessible work to date…”

Read more from Craig on their MySpace blog, and stay tuned for more details about this new release in the coming months.

Bury the Sound’s majestic Autumn Magnets EP is now available on iTunes. So, if you want “instrumental shoegaze at its best” (Music Emissions), visit iTunes or pop along to the HSR Store.

Hidden Shoal Recordings is delighted to announce two new international signings to its roster of artists: Jumpel (Germany) and Cheekbone (Japan).

Despite its obvious mastery of the dizzying possibilities of technology, Jumpel’s debut album Samuel Jason Lies On The Beach is a work of intense intimacy and humanity. The album serves as a testament to the power of careful distillation and minimalism, exuding an emotional complexity that belies its seemingly simple surface. Samuel Jason Lies On The Beach will be released on the 7th of August, 2007.

A drifting, organic space in which to lose yourself completely, Cheekbone’s masterful ambient electronica is guaranteed to appeal to anyone with an interest in the possibilities of synthesized sound. Luscious, disorientating and utterly enchanting, the Yesterday EP is essential listening. Yesterday will be released on the 21st of August, 2007.