Articles by Eric Hill

Phill Niblock

Touch Strings

PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2010

At 77, Phill Niblock can claim a three-year head start on Steve Reich for the non-existent title of Grand Old Man of NYC Minimalism. Touch...

RJD2

The Colossus

PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2010

Like DJ Shadow, Dan the Automator, and Diplo, Ramble John Krohn is a millennial hip-hop innovator who's spent the last decade wheel barrowi...

Aarktica

In Sea

PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2009

Jon DeRosa's early '00s approach to minimalist drone was appropriately icy, given the name of his decade spanning project. "I Am (The Ice)"...

Fieldhead

They Shook Hands for Hours

PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2009

This debut by Leeds, UK native Paul Elam rolls sixes on all fronts. Attacking the moody glitch-edit field, protecting the periphery of micr...

Thao & the Get Down Stay Down

Know Better Learn Faster

PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2009

San Francisco, CA's Thao Nguyen has a weary/sexy catch in her singing voice that knocks the ten-speed out from under the 17-year-old me. Wi...

Various

Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill

PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2009

Judee Sill released two albums in the early '70s that had a Graham Nash connection and were well reviewed, then she developed a heroin addi...

Animal Collective, Japandroids and Grizzly Bear Take Top Honours in Exclaim!'s Best Pop Rocks Albums of 2009

PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2009

Where last year we seemed to be in touch with our folksy/woodsy acoustic side (Fleet Foxes, Plants and Animals, Bon Iver), in Exclaim!'s be...

Black Feelings

Black Feelings

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

Is it just me or is sneering no longer cool in rock? Not Johnny Rotten snotty, but John Lydon snide coolness that propelled PIL? Well, Mont...