- Antonymes emerges from the adjustments and erasures of ambient and the pace and persistence of minimalism
- Most instrumental rock suggests the apocalypse is coming. If it is, Apricot Rail are too busy crafting beautiful lilting melodies to care.
- Beautiful Lunar Landscape – The band’s music has a natural dynamism, shifting between all-out bliss rock to haunting ambient pop.
- A collaboration between Wendy Allen and Scott Solter with help from many friends along the way. We used to live in the city now we live in the country
- Bury the Sound – Instrumental music for the 21st century
- The Caribbean carry a formidable reputation as contrary folk-pop deconstructionists extraordinaire.
![Caseworker, [The]](http://music.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/themes/an-archos/images/artists/caseworker.jpg "With each successive release, garage-dreampop trio [The] Caseworker deliver their own timeless sonic magic.")
- With each successive release, garage-dreampop trio [The] Caseworker deliver their own timeless sonic magic.
- A drifting, organic space in which to lose yourself completely.
- Chris Mason – think of a marriage between Slowdive, Beck, Neil Finn and Beth Orton. Melancholic but with an overriding sense of optimism.
- Colour Kane – lush cascading guitars and sweet soaring vocals propelled by driving bass and electronic beats.
- CSR – Early 90’s, a kerosene heater, an 8 track, a bottle of Green Ginger Wine. Five days a week, like a job, but real.
- Dilatazione – a project born in Italy in 1999 like a trio of instrumental, cinephile rock.
- Medard Fischer and Tim Arndt have never met nor even spoken. But from their online musical collaboration comes Down Review.
- Warm, inviting and uniquely human, betraying a vulnerability and sensitivity that is rarely found in the male-dominated sphere of electronica.
- Enargeia – Ambient industrial soundscape artists are a performance based improvisational duo working out of Perth Western Australia.
- A storm of acoustic music pelting in perfect continuous increments like a sun shower
- Gilded operates around the intersections of melody and texture, movement and pause.
- Glassacre – a delayed conversation in a handing over and giving in of the constituent elements in the hope that something larger will form.
- Half Film
- “Low-key underground guitar atmos that’s very moody indeed… Stark like Joy Division and darkly melodic like Neil Young” – Melody Maker
- Effortlessly shifting focus and timbre with each movement of their epic song-suites, some of the most thrilling, symphonic instrumental rock you will hear.
- The Hero Cycle’s unique sound has been shaped by the eclectic mix of energy brought forth by each individual member
- Hotels makes hook-heavy sci-fi soundtrack synth rock that goes for the jugular, both sonically and melodically.
- A full-on deliberate caberet of avant-everything.
- It all begins late at night with a moment of inspiration: a piano pattern, an underground announcement, a phrase from a film score.
- Dutch-American singer-songwriter Kramies Windt has been honing his inimitable craft for many years, bewitching all who have heard his music along the way.
- Fantastical song-stories carry the listener skyward like a clockwork cloud
- Low Budget Invaders – Two colonial cast offs, sucking the government dry and stealing funds that you could be using to finance invasions of your own.
- A new master of heartbreaking ambient drone has arrived
- Droning, hypnotic sounds, catchy melodies, and subtle shifts in harmony with thoughtful composition
- Moongoat – From trippy beat-based electronic music to dense essays in thoughful and unsettling atmospheres.
- Motor Eye – They have record collections that are scarily similar. Scary because Steely Dan and 10cc feature heavily.
- Combine intricate guitar parts, borrowing from math-inspired indie rock, with highly accessible song structures and strong melodic vocals.
- My Majestic Star – Shades of ambience flowing into moments of shoegaze rock, turning through a melancholic, well-trodden path of obscure narrative.
- Manipulated guitars, bass, drums and electronics create compelling, melodic instrumentals
- Since early childhood, the music of supermarkets, elevators and doctor’s offices has been floating around inside Rich Bennett’s head.
- Jack Hamill’s music explores the often fragile boundary between humankind and the world around us.
- Songs rise and fall in vertiginous shifts, carried by thunderous rhythms, skewed guitar patterns and compelling vocals
- If you start to listen, you will find timeless instrumentals from the realms of cinematic pop, always a world apart, but never irrelevant.
- As well as being an in-demand producer and one half of Hidden Shoal’s very own Boxharp, Scott Solter also releases solo works under his own name.
- Textural and meticulously composed, the droning and emotive ambience of Sleeping Me is a quiet reminder of all the beauty and personal strife that is experienced in solitude.
- Out of the ashes of some of Perth’s finest indie bands The Slow Beings may well one of indie rock’s new shining lights.
- Slow Dancing Society – Washington based musician/producer and nostalgist extraordinaire, Drew Sullivan.
- The music of Stray Ghost explores the depths of sadness, with fleeting glimpses of peaceful joy and solitude.
- Tangled Star – Exultant shifts and wandering detours. This is the apathetics guide to caring too much.
- Tarcutta draw inspiration from rock, punk and post-rock to create their own distinctive and emotive blend.
- Toby Richardson – A 30 something living in the inner city suburbs recording his rock and roll dreams from the comfort of home.
- Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Todd Tobias presents a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.
- Umpire are Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen combining sprawling rock sounds with massive sun-drenched melodies.
- Wayne Harriss – Sub-marine worlds, weightless shapes, staring at the sun from underwater.
- Wes Willenbring – Melodic and textural piano and guitar producing expressive and visceral music.
- Wizards Of Time deftly unleash technicolour art-rock like lightning bolts from their nimble fingers.
