Hide and Shine’s first sampling of their new album, “Hemorrhage and Heal”, is out on DSPs now.
Their second full-length album The Red Core, produced by Matt Wallace (Faith No More, Maroon 5, O.A.R., The Replacements, and Train) is due out this summer, on Friday, June 20.
About the new song, the band says: “‘Hemorrhage and Heal’ is a heavy foreshadowing of a painful, yet beneficial transformation to come.”
Hide and Shine’s music is “laden with a punk attitude, but spiritually inclined.” The lyrics often hint at esoteric themes such as alchemy, UFO/religious experiences, lucid dreaming, and inter-dimensional existence. There is also a deep note of social empathy, but it never emerges as “political.” It’s more concerned with humanity, and it’s buried under poetry.
“Hide and Shine have envisioned, performed, and recorded an album that is equal parts muscular and brutal instrumentation pushing against haunting and catchy melodies and lyrics,” says album producer Matt Wallace. “If there is a goddess of music, I wish and hope that she blesses and lifts this song to the highest levels possible. The entire world should have the opportunity to be moved by Hide and Shine.”
In support of the new album, the band will be playing select shows in and around their home base, Kingston, NY, and they are in the planning stages for a monthly party that will showcase local music, food, art, and more. To be sure, “it will be some kind of post-punk art/food/cocktail ritual.”
The first description made of Hide and Shine was “An Art Death Indie Post-Punk Country Rock Alternative.” Record store people were most helpful in relating Hide and Shine to other bands. They determined that the music had the raw, literary punk of The Replacements, the sweet yet monstrous attack of Dinosaur Jr., the dark introspection of Radiohead, and noticeable nods to grunge, classic metal, classic country, and classic rock.
