Articles by Eric Hill

clipping. Dial Up the Digital Squall of Y2K on 'Dead Channel Sky'

PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2025

We live in an age where most information creeps along silently from cellphone to social media platform to laptop, invisibly arcing from...

Karate Can't Quite 'Make It Fit' on Their Return

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2024

Over a decade and six albums that marked the turn of the last century, Boston's Karate chopped together an aesthetic that combined elements...

Alan Sparhawk's 'White Roses, My God' Finds the Light in Grief

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2024

There's no wrong way to grieve, but things can get complicated when there's an audience for your grief. It's particularly tough when said ...

Colin Stetson Finds New Peaks on 'The love it took to leave you'

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2024

With each new release, the superlative praise for Colin Stetson's work and abilities cements his position as a singular voice in ...

Cassandra Jenkins Searches the Cosmos on 'My Light, My Destroyer'

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2024

There is a careful balance between wry insight and open-heartedness in Cassandra Jenkins's songs. As on her very well-received 2021 album...

Mabe Fratti Has More Questions Than Answers on 'Sentir que no sabes'

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

Mabe Fratti would make a good Oracle. In thinking of a tidy aesthetic phylum to classify the Guatemalan cellist, singer and composer's work...

Kim Myhr Closed FIMAV 2024 with a Dose of Magic

Carré 150, May 19

PUBLISHED May 22, 2024

In an uncharacteristic move, this year's FIMAV closed out in one of the smaller halls rather than with a widescreen blowout, or whatever pa...

At FIMAV, Nate Wooley's Columbia Icefield Welcomed the Melt

Carré 150, May 19

PUBLISHED May 21, 2024

Trumpeter Nate Wooley's Columbia Icefield project began in 2019, when he assembled a group of musicians to help interpret his compositions...