Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the signing of American ambient guitarist Sleeping Me.

Textural and meticulously composed, the emotive ambience of Sleeping Me is a quiet reminder of all the beauty and personal strife that is experienced in solitude. Tidal currents of delayed guitar carry the listener across an ocean of reverb, cast adrift beneath a brooding sky. Each track hands an elusive secret to the next, hinted at but never revealed.

Sleeping Me’s debut release Cradlesongs is an homage to the bittersweet rise and fall of fortune, the discovery and evasiveness of identity and truth, and the acceptance of distance, disappointment, and the poignancy of an ever-elusive yet omnipresent love. Elegant, engaging and always beautiful, these melancholic symphonies truly live up to their collective description as Cradlesongs, lulling and comforting in their amniotic haze.

Cradlesongs will be released on Hidden Shoal Recordings on 26th May 2009, preceded by a single in April.

Read a full press release about the signing here.

“Dim the lights, light the incense, pour yourself a glass of white wine and allow yourself to float away as this duo – a singer, guitarist and synth player from Adelaide, a drummer, programmer and synth player from Sydney – takes you on a languorous cruise through some downbeat, moonlit, stonergaze place inside your mind. There’s no hurry, just three contemplative tunes, with the shortest clocking in at just less than seven and a half minutes. Jarrod Manuel’s brief, whispered, abstract vocal passages work here more like bridges between adjoining sound/dreamscapes.”

Drum Media Sydney

Single Of The Week: “You know when you catch a faint smell of something that totally spins you out and reminds you of something you haven’t though about since you were six, completely changing your day? City Of Satellites have synthesised this feeling into music. The Adelaide/Sydney duo’s debut EP plays out like a strange adventure through an exotic foreign city – without the implied pretentiousness. Opening track ‘Moon In The Sea’ carries faint traces of shoegaze heroes M83 and My Bloody Valentine, with faint, androgynous vocals drifting in and out of clarity over a dreamy soundscape. Though only three (long) tracks in length, The Spook is an emotionally exhausting and incredibly satisfying little trip.”

Drum Media Perth

City Of Satellites’ debut EP The Spook has been awarded Single Of The Week in Drum Media Perth, and received a glowing review in Drum Media Sydney. Visit the City Of Satellites reviews section to read the reviews in full.

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