Articles by Eric Hill

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  Origami Arktika

  Trollebotn

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2008

  Once you get past the wince-worthy name, this folkloric Norwegian band make it up with fireside balladry, which calls to mind a mead-headed...

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  Brian Grainger

  Eight Thousander

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2008

  Alan Weisman’s recent book The World Without Us speculates on the Earth’s post-human development. Were it not a contradiction of sorts, Bri...

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  Sun

  I'll Be the Same

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2008

  Oren Ambarchi and Chris Townend switch back from their artist/producer dynamic to their group one for this second effort on Staubgold. As w...

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  Richard Youngs

  Autumn Response

  PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2007

  At first blush, you seem to be listening to an acoustic folk album run through some peculiar network of delay and loops. Then you realise w...

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  Tarentel

  Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

  This San Francisco outfit continue to shift from their beginnings as an above average post-rock outfit in the vein of Mogwai or Explosions...

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  To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie

  The Patron

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

  The term "dream pop” is generally used to describe music where the melody, voices, rhythm and tone all blend into a kind of indistinct haze...

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  Lawrence Casserley / Simon Desorgher

  Music from Colourdome

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2007

  While the intrusion of laptops and homemade electronic gadgets into "proper” improvised jazz seems to be on the increase, many of these int...

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  Sylvain Chauveau

  S.

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2007

  This first release for Type records marks a return to minimalist experiments for Chauveau after his surprisingly faithful album of acoustic...