Articles by Eric Hill

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  Taub

  Bedtime Stories

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2008

  Perhaps the busiest bugbear in electronic music is expectation. If artists can escape its predictable clutches then they have a head start...

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  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...

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  Cory Allen

  The Fourth Way

  PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2008

  The quiet revolution of laptop aesthetics continues its glacial pace. Allen’s basic operations include two competing, or cooperative, layer...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...