Articles by Eric Hill

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  The American Dollar

  Atlas

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2010

  Somewhere in the gap between a slightly more enervated Album Leaf and a much less hyper Dntel is where the American Dollar live. After a ha...

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  Pertego

  Hjarta

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2010

  Since the days of the Sugarcubes, the question of what phenomenon in Iceland might generate so many weird and wonderful musical artists has...

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  Clogs

  The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2010

  If light pop operetta (poperetta?) isn't your cup of tea try easing into this fifth Clogs album thusly: start with "The Last Song," a somew...

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  Eluvium

  Similes

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2010

  Yes, there are vocals. Yes, there is occasional minimal percussion. These are indeed "songs," but no one is going to mistake Matthew Cooper...

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  Various

  Pop Ambient 2010

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2010

  Another year, another peerless collection of diapasonal bliss, unsurprisingly, from the German makers of taste. Last year's trend of "home...

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  I/Dex

  Layers

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2010

  That Vitaly Harmash is from Belarus is only important to illustrate the kind of non-place network that unites experimental electronic artis...

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  Akira Kosemura

  Polaroid Piano

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2010

  Prior to our digital age, the "instant" of instant gratification took a bit longer. Minute Rice took five minutes and Instamatic camera pho...

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  Crushed Stars

  The Refracted Light of Crushed Stars

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2010

  On Todd Gautreau's fourth release, the pulsar qualities of his moniker manifest in "Candy Colored Tiles," a track suffused with background...