Articles by Eric Hill

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  Helado Negro

  Canta Lechuza

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2011

  What happens when you record an electro-tropical album during the winter, alone in the Connecticut woods? The titular "Singing Owl" perhaps...

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  Zombi

  Escape Velocity

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2011

  On Spirit Animal (this Pittsburgh, PA duo's latest Relapse release), the basic drum plus synth set up was given a rock upgrade, with anthem...

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  Cass McCombs

  Wit's End

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2011

  If Cass McCombs were Canadian, we would likely celebrate him next to Rufus Wainwright and Ron Sexsmith. But he's a little too subtle to mak...

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  Horseback

  The Gorgon Tongue: Impale Golden Horn + Forbidden Planet

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2011

  The Gorgon Tongue pairs two out-of-print releases by Jenks Miller. The first, Impale Golden Horn, was his 2007 debut on Thrill Jockey and f...

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  Disco Doom

  Trux Reverb

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2011

  If they'd added plus Jesus & Mary Chain Distortion and Codeine Minimalism to the title of their new album, Anita Rufer and Gabriele De Mari...

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  Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit

  Secret Rhythms Vol. 4

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2011

  More than a decade after their first collaboration, these two German artists still manage to find new avenues of expression in their explor...

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  Jason Forrest

  The Everything

  PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2011

  On the first full-length released under his own name since 2005's Shamelessly Exciting, the Berlin-based American definitely tries to live...

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  I'm From Barcelona

  Forever Today

  PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2011

  "There is a Bird for every occasion," begins the first track on I'm From Barcelona's third studio album, and though "Charlie Parker," the j...