Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of ‘Head In The Sand’ by Craig Hallsworth-led  West Australian outfit Tangled Star. The track is the first single to be taken from their forthcoming album Let’s Adjourn To The Garden (18th June 2013). The track is available now for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store.

‘Head In The Sand’ streamlines Tangled Star’s inimitable hooks and melodic turns into an immediately addictive and electric slice of slow burn power-pop. The glowing roar of overdriven guitars combined with the song’s endearingly ramshackle sway evokes wide-open roads and cracked sunglasses, with potholes and detours along the way. Craig Hallsworth’s unmistakable vocals and lyrical playfulness, and the incongruous but strangely heartbreaking piano outro, make for classic Tangled Star.

“The rich, gentle roil of sound evidenced on Our Man in Eden Hill, the band’s third overall release, has the same surging, warmly anthemic sound of stellar forebears galore, each sonically different — the Triffids, Died Pretty, perhaps most inevitably the Go-Betweens — but which altogether seem to capture a sense and a style more than might be guessed, something detailed, mournful, and a little crushing even at its strongest…” – All Music Guide on Our Man In Eden Hill

Distilling elements of indie-rock with Craig Hallsworth’s wonderful dust-and-liquor-coated vocals and twisting lyrics, Tangled Star weave their own magic place. Through the music’s exultant shifts and wandering detours the band manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset. Their wonderfully titled new collection Let’s Adjourn To The Garden is, in typically contrarian fashion, their least bucolic offering yet, blending more driving power-pop flavours into their distinctive soup of song. For the uninitiated, Hallsworth has been a mainstay of the Perth indie scene, fronting seminal Australian 80s swamp rockers The Bamboos and going on to front bands such as The Healers, Outstation, The Slow Beings and now Tangled Star.

It’s just about stock take time here at the Hidden Shoal office and the less CDs we have to count, the better! The Solution? A sale! We have a huge range of awesome CD releases for sale and just to keep with the spirit of giving we’ve applied the same discounts to their digital counterparts.

CDs start at less than $10 with free worldwide shipping and include releases from artists such as Slow Dancing Society, Markus Mehr, Umpire, Boxharp, Salli Lunn, Liam Singer, Rich Bennett, City Of Satellites, Elisa Luu, Wes Willenbring, Down Review, Hotels, Toby Richardson, Iretsu and HC-B. Check the specials section on the front page of the HSR Store and pick up some bargains!

The beautiful people at the equally beautiful 78 Records store in Perth have set up a special Hidden Shoal rack featuring a whole bunch of the latest and back catalogue HSR CDs (local and international). So please head in, have a look, grab yourself some awesome music and marvel at the sweet folks behind the counter. The store also does mail order so if you’re not in Perth then head over to the 78′s website and get your internet on!

To co-incide with the end of the financial year here in Australia we’re taking 20 to 40% off all releases (excludes pre-orders) in the Hidden Shoal Store. You can store some bargain CD’s and digital packages from the likes of Slow Dancing Society, Umpire, Wes Willenbring, Liam Singer and Antonymes to name but a few. All CD releases in the store include world-wide free shipping and an immediate digital album download. All digital releases include permanent download access to your purchased release and a pdf booklet.

The sale is on now until the end of June and we have limited stock of some releases, so get in quick and scoop up some beautiful music. Head to the Hidden Shoal Store to check it all out.