Articles by Eric Hill

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  Noahjohn

  Water Hymns

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  To plainly sing the truth is the way of country music; to lazily meander your way up to the truth by taking colourful sidetracks and smoke...

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  Graves Brothers Deluxe

  Gonna Happen to You

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  Swagger. From Elvis through to Jon Spencer, it has been the spirit possessing and hip spoken force of rock. Mister Odom, the reptilian fron...

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  Veloce

  Live in Helsinki

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2002

  One reason to not like traditional music is that often its performers give weary, watered-down interpretations, which bleach out all colour...

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  Muffins

  Bandwidth

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2002

  This is the first new recording in 20 years from "the finest progressive band America produced," according to Fred Frith, The prog elements...

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  Perfume Tree

  Felt

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002

  Vancouver's Perfume Tree play the kind of light electronic music that countless Sarah McLachlan remixes have made irrelevant through their...

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  Motorpsycho

  Phanerothyme

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

  You know in cartoons sometimes when a snowball is dropped on a hillside and it rolls down, gaining mass and momentum, increasing to the siz...

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  Various

  Stickin' It To You Again

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

  Norway's Motorpsycho was the main reason Stickman Records came to be in '94. Since then the label has released 17 albums by the band. Throw...

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  Skanfrom

  Hand Picked Fragments

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  The debut effort by the newest robot on Suction Records, Hand Picked Fragments is just that: pieces of raw musical ideas via a synthesis of...