Articles by Eric Hill

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  Akron/Family

  S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2011

  Songs about bear tête-à-têtes over secret honey stashes, compassion for panhandlers and endless summers. Oh Akron/Family! You so crazy! Whi...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...