Cosmic country outfit The Hanging Stars are back with the news of their highly anticipated new album On a Golden Shore, due for release on 8th March 2024, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed album Hollow Heart which bagged them the Bob Harris Emerging Artist Award at this year’s Americana Music Association UK Awards.

On A Golden Shore arrives as The Hanging Stars reflect on a year of triumphs. They're a leading light in the UK Cosmic Americana cohort with an Americana Music Association Bob Harris-sanctioned award and a Nashville sell-out in Third Man’s Blue Room with Jack White approvingly looking on. Their standing has allowed them to pay less attention to pre-conceptions of what they are ‘supposed to be’.

On A Golden Shore - their fifth album and their second for the pioneering Loose Music, following 2022’s Hollow Heart - finds them definitively themselves and presents a set of disparate songs whose fundamental linkage is the band that made them. It was recorded at Edwyn Collins’ Clashnarrow Studios with Sean Read producing. Singer/guitarist Richard Olson, drummer Paulie Cobra, multi-instrumentalist Patrick Ralla, plus freshman bassist Paul Milne – laid down the album’s backbone over eight days and mostly recorded live, even the solos done as a piece. Much is first-take because trying better, never worked as well. Pedal-steel player Joe Harvey-Whyte created and added his parts at his London studio bringing ‘shimmery psychedelic goodness’.
It is ultimately an album of sensation as much as thought, filled with fleeting moments of blissful excess, and stumbling, rushing flutters of sound; its evanescent psychedelia, divine choruses, and shards of strings combine into an infectious, compelling Cosmic Heartbreak Boogie.

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