Articles by Eric Hill

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  Marika Hackman Tells Grown Up Stories on 'Big Sigh'

  PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2024

  It's always been a fool's errand to try and encapsulate Marika Hackman's music with a simple genre tag. One need only glance at the list of...

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  Bry Webb's 'Run with Me' Is Both Conclusion and Rebirth

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023

  Sometimes people disappear gradually. Archival evidence of their being remains, standing in for their actual presence, but when (or if) the...

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  Jockstrap Are Chopped to Bits on 'I<3UQTINVU'

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2023

  In the world of '80s sci-fi movies, misguided attempts were often made to imagine what music might sound like a century or two in the futur...

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  The Mountain Goats Keep Their Mythology Alive with 'Jenny from Thebes'

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2023

  As on long-running cable TV, recurring characters are always welcome on Mountain Goats albums. And just like the crowd-pleasing stunt episo...

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  Emma Anderson Closes a Loop and Opens a Door with 'Pearlies'

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2023

  Whether or not Emma Anderson's first solo album was intentionally timed to arrive just a few months after 4AD reissued Lush's three studio...

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  Buck Meek Climbs Higher on 'Haunted Mountain'

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023

  Since encountering Adrianne Lenker in 2014, Buck Meek has been a quietly essential half of the yin/twang relationship at the heart of Big T...

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  FIMAV 2023 Balanced Music, Magic and Melancholy

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2023

  Though the COVID masks were mostly history and the advertised slate of artists were all in attendance, the lead up to this year's FIMAV was...

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  Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Are Wide Awake on 'Land of Sleeper'

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2023

  After the release of their debut album in 2017, Newcastle's Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs were herded into the subcategory of "metal b...