Tracks from Sankt Otten’s Eine Kleine Traurigkeit and Rich Bennett’s Music For Underwater Supermarkets have recently been played on Italian Radio Citta Aperta. If you live in Rome or Lazio, tune in to 88.9FM, or stream the station from their website if you live elsewhere in the world, to hear these and more Hidden Shoal releases played alongside similarly excellent artists like Flying Lotus, Beach House and Luomo.

Sankt Otten Tiefgang Sankt Otten – Tiefgang

Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the EP The Spook by Australian post-rock dreampop duo City Of Satellites. The EP follows the release of the incredibly popular and well received debut single ‘Moon In The Sea‘.

Across its three expansive tracks, The Spook covers more musical and emotional ground than most full-length albums. Majestic synthscapes are punctuated by pounding rhythms, melodic themes are afforded the space and time to elegantly unfold, and the whole amounts to so much more than the sum of its undeniably beautiful parts.

The full version of single ‘Moon In The Sea’ opens the EP with delayed guitars, bass and drums swathed in an eerie mist of synths and chimes, above which Jarrod Manuel’s emotive vocals shine clear and true. Then, the loping grandeur of ‘Sleeping Disgrace’ threads backwards guitar loops and drones through a landscape of post-rock-coated opium pop. And the stunning title track sends shivers up the spine as it layers soaring synths across a glistening bed of guitars, bringing the listener back down to earth as its draw the near-25-minute EP to a close.

The Spook is now available through Hidden Shoal Recordings in both CD and digital format. All availability and purchase information, including third-party stores and distribution, can be found at the HSR Store. Read the official press release here and preview the EP in full here.

City Of Satellites – The Spook   City Of Satellites – The Spook

Great news for Ghost In The Water fans: ‘Cardinal Red’, the second single taken from their sublime debut album Tooth, will be released by Hidden Shoal on 16th December. It comes in the form of an exclusive EP featuring the single, a remix of ‘Cardinal Red’ by 4TrakZ, a remix of ‘The Campfire’ by Double Dragon, and two new mixes of songs from the album by Little Ghost (Nathan from the band): ‘Pushpins and Tape’ (Carcrash Mix) and ‘Magic Wand’ (Funk Mix). It’s a pre-Christmas treat that will have everyone up and dancing like a mad fool… Clear the floor – head spin!

Ghost In The Water Cardinal Red Ghost In The Water – Cardinal Red

Excerpt – “I had the pleasure of downloading a review copy of a new EP called ‘Slow Attack’ by the Australian act Glassacre. Glassacre make a very unusual brand of electronic/shoegazing music that sounds to me like the outer space atmospheres of Avrocar crossed with the ambient rock of Engineers. There’s some hypnotic eerie vocals and some excellent unusual melodies on show which lead to a superb and original release. In my role of music reviewer, I get to listen to an awful lot of music but I sometimes feel a bit jaded by the similarity in sound to so many other acts. Glassacre are one of the special acts who sound immediately different.”

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