Articles by Eric Hill
With All Due Respect
Blueprint for Destiny
PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2008
This Montreal duo lurk behind their twilight imagery and surprisingly broad style on this second expanded release. Perhaps due to geographi...
Cory Allen
The Fourth Way
PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2008
The quiet revolution of laptop aesthetics continues its glacial pace. Allens basic operations include two competing, or cooperative, layer...
Holy Sons
Decline of the West
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008
If you are a fan of Grails then you know Emil Amos as the shape behind the drums, able to conjure beats from Sabbath to Gurtu. Lately that...
Parenthetical Girls
Entaglements
PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2008
Has there been a generation of 20-somethings secretly raised on costume dramas? Zac Pennington is one such young man, with an interesting r...
Pontiak
Sun on Sun
PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2008
The slow crawling groove of "Shell Skull, the opening track of Sun on Sun, hits a metal pocket where Slayer, Sabbath and Molly Hatchet sli...
R. Arias / M. Frasconi / K. Uenishi
Object
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008
The modern improv ensemble can sometimes break down like a recipe card, with the lower bits charred off. Here for instance, the ingredients...
Olafur Arnalds
Eulogy for Evolution
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008
Can the word "glut be applied to something as sublime as the string ensemble? Perhaps not, but Iceland seems to have a per capita surfeit...
Bird Show
Bird Show
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008
Birds got to fly. But sometimes they got to sing too. Ben Vidas talent for intertwining rhythms and bright flights of tone made the previo...