Articles by Eric Hill
Various
Pop Ambient 2011
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2011
Kompakt provides us with its state of the quiet nation address for this new year, and the apparent mood is highly nebulous. Nebulous in the...
Deerhoof
Deerhoof vs. Evil
PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2011
Applauded (and at times, derided) for their prog rock leanings, and now on their 11th album, Deerhoof have turned out a more accessible pro...
Sic Alps
Napa Asylum
PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2011
As our digital scalpels have gotten sharper and more affordable, and even basement recordings get ProTools surgery, bands made of ideas, no...
Rafael Toral
Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance
PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2011
Since the mid-'00s, Portugal's Rafael Toral has been working on his "Space Program," a planned ten-disc exploration of homemade electronics...
Mark Fell
Multistability
PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2010
There is a blend of fine art and science in Mark Fell's work more easily described with wave charts and white spaces than words. Somewhere...
ANBB
Mimikry
PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2010
The fruits of a collaboration begun in 2007 and, of course, their individual decades of genre-defining work, Carsten Nicolai and Blixa Barg...
The Extra Lens
Undercard
PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2010
Since finding a home on 4AD, John Darnielle's Mountain Goats releases have slowly gone from loose collections of songbook entries to mature...
M. Ostermeier
Chance Reconstruction
PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2010
The subtle shift between his earlier EPs (Percolate and Lakefront) is carried over into Marc Ostermeier's third release of 2010. The Baltim...