Articles by Eric Hill

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  Various

  Pop Ambient 2009

  PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2009

  A growing trend in the ambient world towards Erik Satie-like neo-classical minimalism is confirmed on the newest instalment of Kompakt's po...

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  The Decemberists

  The Hazards of Love

  PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2009

  Taking their love of song suites (The Tain, "Medley" from The Crane Wife) to the next level, Colin Meloy and his merry minstrels have craft...

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  Romance of Young Tigers

  I Have Supped Full On Horrors

  PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2009

  What initially sounds like another young band that have been possessed be the Godspeed/Mogwai demons gradually reveal themselves to be some...

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  Faust

  C'est Com... Com... Compliqué

  PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2009

  Making another meal out of the same ingredients used to make the Steve Stapleton-produced Disconnected, the ever-enduring Krautrock pioneer...

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  Reigns

  The House on the Causeway

  PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2009

  Steeped in the kind of night sweats sourced from Poe to The Blair Witch, UK brothers Tim and Roo Farthing have brewed a third album of fogg...

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  Arboretum

  Song of the Pearl

  PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2009

  Suffering that weird, "what does this remind me of" syndrome with tracks from Arboretum's third album, I demoed it for a couple of other mu...

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  Pan.American

  White Bird Release

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2009

  When Mark Nelson was splitting his time between Labradford and Pan.American (then a solo side-project), the division line was between the w...

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  Ambarchi and Ng

  Fateless

  PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2009

  With a long working relationship that began as teens in their native Australia, Oren Ambarchi and Martin Ng are the sound design half of As...