I have some great Splendour Hyaline news to share! First of all, Paste magazine (my favorite music magazine) has run a short "review" of our new EP, Hope (A Sliver, Like the Moon), in their March edition (with the Norah Jones cover).

This is a first for David and me, and we're super excited about it--as it turns out, the review is (in my opinion) overwhelmingly positive! Please go and support Paste by picking up a copy (they should be at places like Barnes & Noble, etc...). Our review is, I'm told, on page 69, right underneath Bright Eyes!

Second, if you're interested in purchasing Hope..., it is now available for sale on iTunes! We have pressed CDs as well, but as I'm out of the country for a while, iTunes is an excellent way to get your hands on a copy now. You can preview tracks in iTunes, or listen to full-length tracks at Splendour Hyaline's myspace. If you decide you'd like to purchase the album, simply click the link below. Thanks for your support! If you do buy the album, I'd really appreciate it if you also wrote an honest review on iTunes, describing your reaction to the music. Having a lot of reviews helps us out when people are browsing music!

Check out Hope (A Sliver, Like the Moon) on iTunes!

Now that we are in December, and are therefore allowed to start thinking about Christmas (whereas consumer hegemony would have us believe that time was three weeks ago), I am very pleased to present Splendour Hyaline's 2006 Christmas EP, Holy Night:

• We Three Kings of Orient Are
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• O Holy Night

(To download the album, right-click the above links and choose the option to download the files to your computer.)

David and I hope that these songs can accompany your 2006 Christmas season, as our previous Christmas EP did last year; if you have not downloaded those songs, you can get them here. Unfortunately, we had a very limited amount of time in which to record the three songs above (very few takes each), so the performance quality on my part is less than superb. (In addition, I just realized I didn't catch an error in the lyrics of "O Holy Night". Oh well.) Equally unfortunately, neither David nor Rachel were able to add their talents to the mix. David did, however, produce, mix, engineer, and master the whole album, which is happily noticeable.

That being said, I think things sound great on the whole, and am excited especially about a few classical guitar interludes in the songs. So, please download and enjoy them and, as always, listen with headphones!