Articles by Eric Hill
claire rousay Is Vexing and Vulnerable on 'sentiment'
PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2024
What if life was a mixtape? Rather than shared collections of beats and rhymes, claire rousay curates the sounds of objects...
Jane Weaver's 'Love in Constant Spectacle' Asks You to Read Between the Lines
PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2024
Durability in most art fields involves finding elements that can withstand repetition and subjecting them to perpetual refinement and ...
Mary Timony's 'Taming the Tiger' Is a Gentle Beast
PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2024
The album generates a positive charge that tapers off toward its conclusion, but Timony’s guitar magic is always there to provide a jolt...
Laetitia Sadier Finds Quietude in Groove on 'Rooting for Love'
PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2024
Perhaps the greatest achievement of Laetitia Sadier's career, reached alongside ex-partner and Stereolab co-founder Tim Gane, was the inven...
Marika Hackman Tells Grown Up Stories on 'Big Sigh'
PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2024
It's always been a fool's errand to try and encapsulate Marika Hackman's music with a simple genre tag. One need only glance at the list of...
Bry Webb's 'Run with Me' Is Both Conclusion and Rebirth
PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023
Sometimes people disappear gradually. Archival evidence of their being remains, standing in for their actual presence, but when (or if) the...
Jockstrap Are Chopped to Bits on 'I<3UQTINVU'
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2023
In the world of '80s sci-fi movies, misguided attempts were often made to imagine what music might sound like a century or two in the futur...
The Mountain Goats Keep Their Mythology Alive with 'Jenny from Thebes'
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2023
As on long-running cable TV, recurring characters are always welcome on Mountain Goats albums. And just like the crowd-pleasing stunt episo...