Articles by Eric Hill
Maria Minerva
Will Happiness Find Me?
PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2012
As with early recordings by Ariel Pink, listening to Maria Minerva's releases, starting with her Talinn at Dawn cassette through to last ye...
Klarka Weinwurm
Continental Drag
PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2012
As a transplanted Torontonian, Klarka Weinwurm has acclimatized to the East coast's homemade approach to creativity quite quickly. Starting...
Music Tapes
Mary's Voice
PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2012
Julian Koster's pedigree as a journeyman oddball featured on some of the most beloved recordings by the Elephant 6 collective (including Ne...
Oren Ambarchi
Sagittarian Domain
PUBLISHED Aug 28, 2012
Ambarchi's more propulsive tendencies have lately manifested in units featuring Jim O'Rourke and Keiji Haino. Here, the Australian instrume...
Six Organs of Admittance
Ascent
PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2012
One assumes that SOOA lynchpin Ben Chasny is often asked when/if there will be a new Comets on Fire album. Chasny's sky scraping psychedeli...
Mount Eerie
Clear Moon
PUBLISHED May 22, 2012
There's always a little apprehension that comes with digging into a new Mt. Eerie album, given that Phil Elverum's whims, not necessarily f...
Alexander Tucker
Third Mouth
PUBLISHED May 15, 2012
On his second full-length for Thrill Jockey and sixth overall, Tucker continues to slowly edge away from the folk-meets-drone experiments o...
Ed Schraders Music Beat
Jazz Mind
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2012
The small space wherein Ed Schrader's Jazz Mind thinks its fevered thoughts is a trashily compacted one. The compactor has swallowed scraps...