Beautiful Lunar Landscape EP Release

Perth, Western Australia and Bordeaux, France September, 2007. The Australian music label, Hidden Shoal Recordings, today announced the release of the debut EP by French trip-rock outfit Beautiful Lunar Landscape.

Alone in this Dark Romantic Night propels the listener across ink-black expanses reverberating with an immediate intensity and sense of drama. The band’s songs have a natural dynamism, shifting between all-out bliss rock to haunting ambient pop, at times recalling the shimmering intensity of Ride or The Boo Radleys at their respective peaks, yet managing to transport the listener beyond the familiar. This is an EP constructed with a cartographer’s sense of detail and direction.

“At 25 minutes long and spanning just 4 tracks, Beautiful Lunar Landscape has created some breath-taking moments. In fact some bands have had 10 year long careers and still not came close to hitting some of these heights. Simply put, this is a stunning debut effort.” - Angry Ape

Molded into a form somewhere near My Bloody Valentine, Beautiful Lunar Landscape dot their atmospheric shoegazing indie rock with huge synths and sampled loops with devilishly clever anthems hanging by mere threads. -Smother

“ever wanted to hear what Portishead would sound like melded with a shoegazer aesthetic?… It is absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant…
you are left mesmerised by the expansive and wide-reaching nature of the sounds BLL can create” - Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep

The band formed in October 2003 in Bordeaux, France. Since then, Ben Ling (vocals/synths), Benoit Paissard (bass), Manu Georg (drums), Laureline Roux-Eymery (vocals), Arnaud Sigonney (guitar/songwriter), and Julien Sussat (guitar) have toured England and France, receiving extensive press and radio play on both sides of the Channel.

Beautiful Lunar Landscape’s Alone in the Dark Romantic Night EP is available now exclusively through the HSR Store until mid September where it will see release through all good digital music stores includng iTunes, eMusic and Rhapsody.

The EP will be launched at the legendary El Inca venue in Bordeaux, France on Friday 7th September. The band will be supported by none other than HSR’s dream-pop maestros Colour Kane. The video for the title track off the EP will be released on the 12th of September.

Hidden Shoal Recordings is an Australian-based independent digital music label with a current catalogue that includes releases slipping 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