Articles by Eric Hill
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...
Emma Anderson Closes a Loop and Opens a Door with 'Pearlies'
PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2023
Whether or not Emma Anderson's first solo album was intentionally timed to arrive just a few months after 4AD reissued Lush's three studio...
Buck Meek Climbs Higher on 'Haunted Mountain'
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023
Since encountering Adrianne Lenker in 2014, Buck Meek has been a quietly essential half of the yin/twang relationship at the heart of Big T...
FIMAV 2023 Balanced Music, Magic and Melancholy
PUBLISHED May 22, 2023
Though the COVID masks were mostly history and the advertised slate of artists were all in attendance, the lead up to this year's FIMAV was...
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Are Wide Awake on 'Land of Sleeper'
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2023
After the release of their debut album in 2017, Newcastle's Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs were herded into the subcategory of "metal b...
The Devil's in the Details on Selina Martin's 'Time Spent Swimming'
PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2022
Prior to the last few years when the pandemic stretched — and at times broke — the interconnecting tissue between human relationships, Sel...
Jessica Moss Extends Her Universe on 'Galaxy Heart'
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2022
As members of the extended Godspeed You! Black Emperor/A Silver Mt. Zion universe continue to expand and deepen their individual voices, it...
FIMAV Returned to Push the Boundaries of Music Once Again
PUBLISHED May 24, 2022
After taking 2020 off and then featuring a slightly smaller and geographically limited version in 2021, it seems that securing the "Interna...