Reviews

Sankt Otten “Wunden Gibt Es Immer Wieder” - Headphone Commute

May 16th, 2008

Excerpt: “Hidden Shoal continues to impress… Wunden Gibt Es Immer Wieder is the duo’s third LP, in which they shed the Bristol trip-hop influence, and move towards a cinematic territory… The instrumental ambience of the album is lavishing, gorgeous, and inexplicably German… And the melodies… Ah, the melodies. The track ‘Der Groove Des Guten Gewissens’, with its dramatic strings and high octave piano notes, is a true cinematic experience - turn that up and walk around the city in the rain, and let me know if your eyes don’t swell up with tears.”

Headphone Commute

The Slow Beings ‘I Waste The Sea’ - Rave Magazine

May 2nd, 2008

Excerpt: “With a debt to the softly intense sound of Nirvana’s Unplugged record – and who thought a forcefully creative band would ever owe anything to MTV – Perth’s The Slow Beings reveal to us their interesting debut single… different enough to most everything else on the edgy side of radio, but without building to a true climax, possibly easy to overlook.”

Rave Magazine

Ghost In The Water “Tooth” - Luna Kafe

April 27th, 2008

Excerpt: “clever, crisp and cool as ice-cream. And as tasty... Tooth is a collection of fine melodies and rich vocal patterns. The songs are made for cloudwalking, or daydreaming, or whatever you call it. They sound fluffy, but they’re not too soft and cuddly… a very good album… a powerful debut.”

Luna Kafe 

Toby Richardson “Evergreen” - Luna Kafe

April 27th, 2008

Excerpt: “Richardson is sort of a Robert Pollard-styled musician, but here’s also glimpses of J Mascis’ guitar sound. Musically Evergreen is psychedelic, lo-fi, indie-rock, with a touch of late 1960s/early 1970s fuzzed and dirty psychedelic blues-rock. Jimi Hendrix comes to mind. Beefheart is mentioned in the press sheets. Along with Sebadoh, Pavement, and the aforementioned Pollard and Mascis, this makes sort of a schizophrenic mixture. But, it’s for sure an exciting blend.”

Luna Kafe 


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