Articles by Eric Hill

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  Grails

  Take Refuge in Clean Living

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

  After having their violinist vanish unexpectedly, then releasing a reissued compilation of EPs (Black Tar Prophecies) and a fantastic new a...

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  Grosse Abfahrt

  Everything That Disappears

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

  Putting out your best place settings for company is essentially what the Grosse Abfahrt project is all about. Translating from the German a...

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  Samuel Sighicelli

  Marée Noire

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

  Though only part of a multi-disciplinary performance that included text and video, Samuel Sighicelli’s music from Marée Noire doesn’t suffe...

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  Thisquietarmy

  Unconquered

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

  Montreal’s Eric Quach is turning his pseudonym and label into a very reliable outlet for genre-transgressive music. The label’s recent rele...

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  The Black Angels

  Directions to See a Ghost

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2008

  By about the halfway point of track two, the knee-jerk Jesus and Mary Chain/Spacemen 3 also-ran objections have all but dried up. And when...

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  We Are Scientists

  Brain Thrust Mastery

  PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2008

  This NY-via-Claremont College, CA trio are now a duo, employing hired gun drummers to fill in for the departed Michael Tapper. But not much...

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  Drift

  Memory Drawings

  PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2008

  While guitarist Danny Grody’s "other instrumental band,” Tarentel, has lately shot off into leftfield with a collection of experimental dub...

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  Dead Child

  Attack

  PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2008

  David Pajo’s recent career moves have veered between his increasingly meditative folk rock solo recordings and a revisiting of Slint, the s...