Hidden Shoal Recordings Releases Tangled Star Mini Album

The Australian digital music label, Hidden Shoal Recordings, today announced the official release of the stunning mini album, “It’s Now or Later” by the Craig Hallsworth led Australian outfit, Tangled Star.

Distilling elements of indie rock and alt country married with Hallsworth’s wonderful dust and liquor coated vocals and twisting lyrics, “It’s Now or Later” weaves it’s own magic place.

Through its exultant shifts and wandering detours the album manages to make once familiar territory foreign and offset. The album’s title talks to the wonderful paradox infused within each song both musically and lyrically. This is the apathetic’s guide to caring too much.

The title track and first single released from the album is a winding epic that digs itself into your bones and drags you around it’s melancholic arc.

This is some of the best Australian indie rock you will hear this year.

Tangled Star: In the late 90s, Outstation (Craig Hallsworth, guitars and singing; Jim Butterworth, bass; Jamie Hamilton, drums), a sonic
monstrosity, began playing a lot of quiet tunes, and eventually turned into Tangled Star. Lorne Clements (Hammond Organ, Piano) became involved. Jamie Hamilton left, and was replaced by a drum machine, and Jim became its programmer. Tangled Star have recorded two wonderful albums with Alan Smith from Bergerk! Recordings - the self-titled debut, and “It’s Now Or Later”.

Craig Hallsworth: Born 1964 in Collie South-West Western Australia - land that belongs to the Nyoongar People. Fatally infected with AM radio that plays constantly throughout childhood, in the house and in the car. Begins playing guitar and writing songs around 8 or 9 years of age. Magazines and records. Sitting alone in a room playing and singing into a cassette recorder. String of bands. Loses virginity after a gig at the Narrogin Hotel. Moves to Perth in the mid 80s upon completion of welding apprenticeship in the coal mines. Over next 15 years or so plays in the seminal Perth band The Bamboos, The Healers, wild palms, Zuvuya, Outstation, Tangled Star, as well as many solo performances and recordings. Cur-rently writing an experimental book length poem as well as playing with The Slow Beings.

“It’s Now or Later” is now available from iTunes, eMusic, Sony Connect and the HSR Store.

Hidden Shoal Recordings is an Australian based independent digital music label. The label is a unique marriage of contemporary distribution, marketing and publicity with traditional indie label values and, most importantly, a wonderful catalogue of releases.

Hidden Shoal Recordings current catalogue includes releases that slip between the edges of experimental ambient work, shoegazing pop, post-rock and indie rock. The label has earned a reputation for releasing exciting and engaging new independent music that is not bound by genre or style.

Label Site: http://music.hiddenshoal.com
HSR Store: http://agora.hiddenshoal.com