• Live on Talk Shop Live

    The band had a great performance, an in-depth interview and sold some records on Talk Shop Live.

    Hide and Shine Promo image for Talk Shop Live

    Check out the full video here.

  • Soft Machines

    Hide and Shine’s debut album released today, June 7, 2024.

    Hide and Shine Soft Machines Album Cover

    As legend has it, this record started as a “psychic download” of 50 song ideas. A fantasy about having Steve Albini mix the album became a shocking and wonderful reality.

    The music is being described as “Genre Fluid,” “UAP (Unidentified Audio Phenomena)” and “Artdeathcountryindiealternativerock.”

    The next album is already underway.

  • Steve Albini

    May 08, 2024 — If the duty in this life is to do good work, and help others do good work before we leave, Steve Albini clearly did the right thing. He is leaving behind a stellar legacy of truly outstanding work. We are SO grateful that we had the privilege of working with him before he parted. It’s always strange and unsettling when the good ones go too soon. Let’s all spend a week listening ONLY to his recordings. Play it as LOUD as you can stand it. Let’s send him off with raucous sounds and big black memories.

  • Missing Subliminal Message

    This was supposed to be recorded as a soft, subliminal message in Mindless Apparition—track #7 on Hide and Shine’s debut Soft Machines:

    In a metal cage on a sunny day, I begged them please—might I again be a useful slave? I’ve been faithful but for that one mistake—those thoughts I had while bathing in the real mountain stream. Electrical dreams don’t always satisfy the hungry human specter. But I promise… I promise… I retched all that is real, forcibly from from my heart. We can restart.

  • Kashmir

    I just listened to Kashmir (it’s been a while). It’s pure evil. It’s truly heavy. It’s just one scrawny guitar. Somehow the combination of beat, drone, Mellotron(?) and Celtic magic evokes an image of trudging forever across the dessert, camels and minds bearing heavy loads, not knowing where we are going, but certain it will be better than where we came from. Heavy.

  • Debut Album Coming Soon

    Hide and Shine Soft Machines Album Cover

    This fourteen song debut release will hit on June 7, 2024. It is a fine collection of moody, energetic, esoteric art-death-country-alternative songs. Recorded in Kingston/Rhinecliffe NY and mixed by Steve Albini at Chicago’s Electrical Audio.

  • Master Shadow/Mistress Reflection

    Master Shadow speaks to me
    I hear his whisper
    It’s brighter than you think
    It makes me drink
    From the fountain
    From the spring
    Wherever Shadow leads
    I will follow
    Into the town
    Into the hollow

    When I arrive
    She is there
    Madame Reflection
    She knows who we are
    In which direction we will go
    In search of tomorrow
    Or in the past’s serene sorrow
    When she reveals 
    I may seek
    To run retreat
    Or step in deeper

    Master Shadow
    Mistress Reflection
    Make mistakes
    Make corrections
    Show me darkness
    Give me light
    One by day
    One by night
    In the gutter
    In moth wing’s flutter
    Lamplight’s son
    Mirror’s daughter 

  • Language

  • The Tribes of New York

    A green wilderness I once lived in
    Picked anon and lush all over
    It carried cubs through seasons tried
    Into a ragged winter of their lives

    Was it a windfall or a huntsman’s bait
    That led us to the city’s edge
    We heard the calling of the Island tribes
    That made our wild seem second

    The river forded icy fears awoke
    Realized the past is damaged
    A new beast awakened in the hearts
    As in the new tents a pact is made

    Never are you to return your love
    To the gentle tribes across the water
    Into this slow massacre you will submit
    The blood scored palms are sealed as one

  • Courage to See Small

    In all of creation
    I notice the little shining button
    A pebble in Death Valley
    My neighborhood for the first time

    Eyes are deceiving in their natural state
    In the glaze of night’s woo
    Fleeing tears leave salted residue
    Consequences

    Not for years do the colors reveal
    Retinal apparitions
    I stand sighting my rifle
    Paper targets people taking
    Thousand yard stare
    In the winters white glare
    It all can seem
    But a likeness of a dream

    In the opportunity for abyss
    I settle eyes on the smallest thing
    It’s all and everything I ever wanted