2007 has been a wonderful year for the Hidden Shoal label and its artists and it just got some thick icing layered all over the top of it. Textura magazine, the astute and passionate purveyors of fine new music, have chosen Hidden Shoal Recordings as one of its top ten favourite labels of 2007. Check out the list and read a q&a from all the labels at the Textura website.

Hidden Shoal Recordings has announced it will partner with Amazon to deliver it’s catalogue digitally through the company’s Amazon Mp3 service. From today the entire Hidden Shoal Recordings catalogue comprising over 25 releases will be available for purchase through Amazons newly developed digital music service.

Included in the titles available at Amazon MP3 is the recently released avante pop masterpiece “The Moon and Stars Remain in the Morning Sky” by Portlands Iretsu, the stunning sophomore album “The Slow and Steady Winter” by US ambient artist Slow Dancing Society and the astonishing indie bliss rock that is “Alone in this Dark Romantic Night” by French trip rock outfit Beautiful Lunar Landscape.

Like Colour Kane, The Hero Cycle are continuing to receive glowing reviews months after the release of their amazing Lakes and Ponds EP, which has just featured on the Erasing Clouds review site. Read the review here, or visit The Hero Cycle’s reviews section.

Through an ongoing and exclusive partnership with Aquarius Records in San Francisco and Amoeba Music in Los Angeles, Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the re-release of several of its most popular digital releases on CD for the first time. The announcement follows the success of these releases through digital distribution, as well as enthusiastic worldwide support from radio, press, and of course fans.

The following Hidden Shoal albums and EPs have now been re-released on CD in the US:

Wes Willenbring – Somewhere Someone Else
Available now from Aquarius Records, San Francisco & Amoeba Music, Los Angeles

Sankt Otten – Wir koennen ja Freunde bleiben
Available now from Aquarius Records, San Francisco & Amoeba Music, Los Angeles

The Hero Cycle – Lakes and Ponds
Available now from Amoeba Music, Los Angeles

All HSR releases at Aquarius Records, San Francisco will also be available via the store’s mail order service.

Hidden Shoal Recordings will announce further re-releases over the coming months, including Bury the Sound’s Autumn Magnets EP and Glassacre’s Slow Attack EP.