Articles by Eric Hill

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  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...

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  Maserati

  Pyramid of the Sun

  PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2010

  Released exactly a year and a day after the accidental death of drummer Jerry Fuchs, Pyramid serves as a bittersweet farewell for their ban...

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  Nurse With Wound & Larsen

  Erroneous: A Selection of Errors

  PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2010

  Created from two years of file swapping between Steve Stapleton's long-running project and the shadowy quartet from Italy, this melting pot...

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  Philip Jeck

  An Ark for the Listener

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2010

  Though his use of junkshop turntable and vinyl has always been idiosyncratic, Philip Jeck's sixth solo album for the Touch label pushes eve...

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  Half-Handed Cloud

  As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2010

  On their fifth full-length, Half-Handed Cloud have effectively out-conceptualized labelmate Sufjan Stevens. John Ringhofer (leader and prim...

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  Nils Petter Molvaer

  Hamada

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2010

  This Norwegian trumpeter has been a prime mover of the so-called "nu-jazz" scene, a Scandinavian analogue to our '90s acid jazz stream. Thi...

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  Alexandre St-Onge

  Entités

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2010

  On his 1999 release, Un Mâchoire et Deux Trous, St.-Onge recorded the sound of his skull, captured by sleeping with an old school Mac...

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  Mahjongg

  The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2010

  Masters of something they've dubbed "Chicagotronics," Jeff Carrillo and Hunter Husar follow up their 2008 K Records debut, Kontpab, with a...