One week until Good Hiding
New album release via Adventurous Music
This time next week, Good Hiding will be released on Bandcamp, and in the mail for those who have kindly purchased the postcard set/digi download.
Although I self-released a couple of improv albums in spring, Good Hiding could be viewed as my first album proper since Grave Era (Cruel Nature, Feb 2024) - which had a small but surprisingly decent reception, not least from highly respected music writers, Substack dwellers and all round good guys
and - the latter coining the phrase “Smartphone Concrete” in relation to how I produce my stuff (I use my phone as mic and mixing desk).If you’re at all interested, Grave Era is a decent place to start in terms of hearing what I do and, somewhat, the kind of vibe you can expect from the next record. Or, you could dive into music’s most premature “best of” - encapsulating the genre-fluid output since my self-released debut in October last year.
That all said, I don’t like to look back too much. The compilation was put together for my own sake and purposes really - in order to make a bit of sense of what I’d done and what it means. I struggle to remember what I have released, titles, lyrics, field recordings etc. I genuinely feel entirely detached from the person who made some of it, so I actively avoid listening to my own music as I get a bit creeped out. [‘To The Dead, We Failed’ was made from start to release across one day…]
And so, to Good Hiding. If I may say, I am particularly proud of this one. It’s long, fairly dark and probably quite a difficult listen in part. I never purposely try to alienate people from my tunes, but a strong bond can be developed remotely with listeners who seem to fully engage in what I could only imagine I would be satisfied with or interested in.
The album is currently in pre-order mode, so there are only a couple of tunes available to listen to [writers/DJs etc: hit me up for a private Soundcloud link to the full record] - but I’d be grateful if you gave it a go. I’m open to feedback and questions of all kinds.
Thanks for reading and listening to the record if you find time. This will be my last release for the foreseeable future - I hope it finds you well…
PH x