Hidden Shoal Recordings

This Monday, July 6th, Tarcutta are playing live at The Old Bar on Johnston St, Fitzroy in Melbourne, with Icicle Melts and Hoof & Antler. Tarcutta are a live force to be reckoned with, and will be playing a stack of awesome tunes from their self-titled debut album.

Tarcutta is available in mp3 format from the HSR Store, where the album can be streamed in full, and is launched on CD at the East Brunswick Club on Thursday July 23rd.

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Hidden Shoal Recordings are proud to announce the release of the debut self-titled album by Perth-based multi-instrumental pop quintet Apricot Rail.

Apricot Rail produce some of the most discretely charming, lush instrumental pop music you’re likely to hear all year. Delicate, bell-like arpeggiated guitars weave around snaking clarinet and flute, while the beautifully held back yet sanguine rhythm section drives the whole thing into a blurred, sun-soaked horizon.

Their debut album features the wonderfully received single ‘Pouring Milk Out The Window’, an anthem without ever having to be anthemic, a melancholic reverie that never resorts to the emotional ease of sadness. ‘If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them’, which featured on the 2009 Spunk Singles Club compilation album, is another chiming standout. And gorgeous closing track ‘Halfway House’ weaves in bubbling electronics as the band lead the listener through glowing landscapes and light-drenched vistas.

“this shyly retiring gem is predisposed to a seductive spectral / ethereal head bowed beauty much reminiscent of the Grails in more tender moments.” – Losing Today on ‘Pouring Milk Out The Window’

Apricot Rail’s self-titled debut hits the streets on the 4th of July, released through Hidden Shoal Recordings. The album is distributed in Australia through Hidden Shoal Distribution and internationally via n5Mailorder. The album is also be available digitally through the Hidden Shoal Store and all good third-party digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon etc). Check the Hidden Shoal Store for all availability info. The album will be launched at Mojos Bar in Fremantle on the night of the release in what promises to be one of the gigs of the year as Apricot Rail share the stage with local legends Pond who’ll be launching their new album on the same night.

Preview the album in full here and read a full press release here.

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Excerpt: “Solter re-constructs the group’s material into set-pieces that are idiosyncratic, unhinged, dazed, and more than a little confused... Solter’s wild ride boldly shifts The Caribbean’s style from its customary state of Warholian Pop Art to a fractured zone of Robert Rauschenberg-styled Abstract Expressionism.”Textura