Articles by Eric Hill

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  A Winged Victory for the Sullen

  A Winged Victory for the Sullen

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2011

  Creating a sense of space ― the cosmos itself, a large dusty room or just the inside of the ear ― is where ambient music excels...

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  Barn Owl

  Lost in the Glare

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2011

  With subtle adjustments in guitar style and very sly, minimal interjections from other instrumentation, Evan Caminiti and John Porras have...

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  Mika Vainio

  Life (…It Eats You Up)

  PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2011

  Never a stranger to abrasiveness or pummelling electronics, Mika Vainio brings his guitar to the party this time for some hands-on axe grin...

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  Fruit Bats

  Tripper

  PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2011

  Ten years and five albums in, Eric D Johnson's Fruit Bats continue to write and record undeniably pleasant, heartfelt songs. They shoot int...

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  The War on Drugs

  Slave Ambient

  PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2011

  If Kurt Vile snuck away with more than his share of War on Drugs' stash of mojo, departing after 2008 debut Wagonwheel Blues, the evidence...

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  Jackie-O Motherfucker

  Earth Sound System

  PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2011

  It was closing in on a decade since Jackie-O Motherfucker last popped up on my freak radar, so this fairly cold reintroduction was equally...

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  EDM

  Night People

  PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2011

  It has been a period of flux for our friends in the Early Day Miners: new shortened name and a return to the label they first called home....

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  Dakota Suite

  The Hearts of Empty

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2011

  Since surviving his first decade as a well reviewed, if overly compared (usually to Mark Eitzel and Mark Kozelek), singer/songwriter, Chris...