Hide and Shine share new song "Hemorrhage and Heal"
FIRST SONG, “HEMORRHAGE AND HEAL” IS OUT NOW
Hide and Shine: Art Death Indie Post-Punk Country Rock Alternative Music
Hide and Shine is thrilled to announce 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. The first sampling of the new album “Hemorrhage and Heal” is out on DSPs today.
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.” For all news and up-to-date information, please visit hideandshine.com.
Hide and Shine on tour:
May 27 - Pianos - New York, NY
June 20 - Night Swim - Kingston, NY **Record Release Party**
June 23 - live webcast on Talkshop.live from Utopia Sound Studios - Bearsville, NY
July 13 - Main Drag Music - Brooklyn, NY
The songs of Hide and Shine seem unusual but feel so familiar, like a nostalgia that you can’t quite put your finger on. They have musical sensibilities that span seven decades of American and British rock, but songwriter Chris Kelly believes that “It’s the people we’ve played with throughout our lives that have the most influence on our sound. The sound is more than just a reflection of what we listen to. It includes the people and experiences that are absorbed along the way.”
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.
“Our sound is more than just a reflection of what we listen to. It includes the people and experiences that are absorbed along the way.”
The work began in 2022 when songwriter, Chris Kelly, received “a psychic download of 50 song ideas.” He shared them with drummer Michael Chambers after their first “random” meeting—a dinner set up by their wives. Kelly assumed they might “make a little noise,” record a few songs together, and have a little fun. The concept of “band” was not in the consciousness of these veterans of New York City’s 90s/2000s post-punk/art rock/alt-country scene. Upon hearing something striking and interesting in the demos, Chambers began feverishly churning out drum tracks to all 50 ideas. As the two began translating these musical sketches into songs, two things began to be apparent: that each song seemed to have a life of its own, and that they all sounded pretty good! The idea of forming a band started as a series of questions: “A band? Really? Do we really want to start a band?” There was a powerful feeling of positive energy and movement that came with the songs, like the music itself wanted to say something and go somewhere. And so, it was decided.
“Songs don’t come from people, they come through people.”
With the addition of Knoxville-native, outlaw-country-man Chris Ferguson on bass, the band began work on its first album, Soft Machines (released June 2024). The band recorded and produced the album, but it was the late, legendary Steve Albini who brought all the raw material into its final state of cohesive magic. The band considers itself supremely lucky to get the chance to work with Albini at his Electrical Audio studios. It was a master class in audio engineering, artistic generosity, and underground music ethos. This debut record was well received across a broad spectrum of audiences.
As the basic tracks for Soft Machines were being finished in 2023, the band began work on its second album of fourteen songs: The Red Core (2025). This collection of music refines the most successful elements of Soft Machines and continues to help the band defy categorization. This time it was Matt Wallace (The Replacements, Faith No More) performing his wizardry on the band’s sound.
In December 2024, David Andersen, analog sorcerer, joined as the band’s bassist. He had worked with Hide and Shine doing studio and live sound work and expressed interest in working with the band on the other side of the mixing board. The trio melded quickly into their new sound, absorbing the spirit and experiences of the new member. A more clarified and deliberate version of the band was being heard.
In the middle of recording the band’s second record, Kelly made demo recordings of 19 new songs. The decision to abandon the remainder of the original 50 songs was made. These new songs were part of a fresh “psychic download” that occurred after the band had been playing together. It was apparent that the other players were being absorbed into the songwriting.
“Hide and Shine are just stewards of music, like all bands, tasked with translating the images and commands of the unconscious world, into the words and sounds of this world. It is incredibly important work. Listening is also important work. By relaying and listening to these messages from the other side, we are all restoring some harmonic balance to humanity.”
Hide and Shine resides in and around Kingston, NY—the former capital of New York State, and the current creative capital of America.
Hide and Shine
The Red Core
Release Date: June 20, 2025
Tracklisting
Hemorrhage and Heal
I Lived in the Light
Look Terrified
Metamorphosis
Can’t Wait to Catch Fire
Love in the Neutral Zone
Heaven on Sunday
Fire Survivors
Another Mission to Mars
I’m in Love
We Like Falling Down
The Ones Left Behind
Untitled Paradise
My Mirror Moon
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