More Hidden Shoal releases are making impacts on the US college radio charts and this time it’s Sankt Otten’s turn. The band’s brilliant new album Morgen wider lustig is sitting at number 7 on the WRSU RPM chart for January.
Preview and buy Morgen wieder lustig here.
Sankt Otten – Mit Popcorn und Champagner Sankt Otten – Mit Popcorn und Champagner
Excerpt: ‘Things just sort of came to a standstill when I began listening to Stray Ghost’s three-piece offering, Each Paradise Is A Lost Paradise. Anthony Staggers’ work will set you floating, relaxed and completely trusting, in the deeper waters of his slow, hushed drifts and dimly described environments. Within moments you’ll understand that there is no hurry, there is no world, there is only the sound of Stray Ghost. Caught in the drift you see texture, interest, movement.’
Excerpt: ‘The discs are loaded with layered, thoughtful pieces rich in instrumentation and heavy on a narrative sensibility…. with pieces that wander and shuffle through bleak and melancholic landscapes like they need a little space to sort things out. Everything is played with a deliberate grace that allows each instrument’s contribution be fully felt, notes slipping perfectly into place at exactly the right time. Willenbring’s approach skirts the edge of minimalism in that there’s nothing here that isn’t absolutely inherent, nothing wedged or crammed in where it doesn’t belong. The notes fall like rain, the backgrounds shift and float like windblown curtains and everything sounds like it’s hanging at the precipice of heartbreak.’
Elisa Luu’s gorgeous debut album Chromatic Sigh has recently charted at the wonderful KALX station in Berkely, California. The album hit number 64 for the monthly chart in December then cozily slipped into 23 on the 1st weeks chart for 2010.
Head over to the Hidden Shoal Store to preview and buy Chromatic Sigh.
Elisa Luu – The Garden Elisa Luu – The Garden
