Articles by Eric Hill

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  Dub Tractor

  Sorry

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2010

  Under the System (and earlier Future 3) umbrella, Anders Remmer joined Thomas Knak and Jesper Skaaning in creating crystalline, hyper-detai...

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  A Neon Rome

  A Neon Rome

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2010

  How to summarize? Created by singer Neal Arbik in 1984, A Neon Rome burned briefly and brightly before Arbik's bizarre, pseudo-monastic mel...

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  Simon Scott

  Navigare

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2010

  Many current ambient artists cast backwards nods to the halcyon days of murk that was early '90s shoegaze. Few bridge the gap as ably as Si...

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  Sleep Whale

  Houseboat

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2010

  Halfway through 2009, Sleep Whale released a beguiling suite of songs on mini-LP Little Brite. Bruce Blay and Joel North subsequently added...

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  Zelienople

  Give it Up

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2010

  On their second Type Records release, this Chicago trio continue to work on a soundtrack for sleepwalking through unstable landscapes. Ther...

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  On Fillmore

  Extended Vacation

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2010

  I worry about Wilco. Jeff Tweedy added guitar pyrotechnician Nels Cline, only to apparently tie one hand behind his back on the last couple...

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  Anduin

  Abandoned in Sleep

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2010

  Back in May, Jonathan Lee (Anduin) collaborated with Dag Rosenqvist (Jasper, TX) on Bending of Light, an album that looked skywards and bey...

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  Oren Ambarchi

  Intermission 2000-2008

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2010

  Although he's often folded into lists with guitarchitects like Fennesz and Keith Rowe, Oren Ambarchi's solo work is a pure surgical strike...