Articles by Eric Hill

Early Day Miners

The Treatment

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2009

The intro moments of "In the Fire" will startle some into double-checking the album information. After all, Early Day Miners songs have nor...

We Are Wolves' Art of Noise

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2009

At this point it's passed by funny and verges on absurd. When I mention to Alexander Ortiz that there is a We Were Wolves in Beaumont, TX a...

To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie

Marlone

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

For their second full-length, Minnesota duo Jehna Wilhelm, and Mark McGee have kept the spectral qualities from The Patron but appear much...

Dial M for Murder!

Fiction of Her Dreams

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

The initial knee-jerk is to kick DMFM! atop the teetering pile of Interpol/Joy Division sound-alikes that have been stacking up since, well...

Ramona Falls

Intuit

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

In a recent Wire article, the already maligned term "hypnagogic pop" was coined by David Keenan to pigeonhole the sound of bands like Emera...

Brock Van Wey

White Clouds Drift On and On

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

As Bvdub, San Franciscan Brock Van Wey has generated a swelling fog of limited edition releases, including those on his Quietus imprint. Th...

Altz

Escape: The Reconstruction of Isophonic Boogie Woogie

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

The collision of electronics and vintage samples that resulted in '80s/'90s acid jazz now sounds like a dated and perhaps reflux-inducing g...

Lokai

Transitions

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

"Roads," the opening track on Florian Kmet and Stefan Németh's second album as Lokai, unfolds like a creaking shipload of wineglasse...