Articles by Eric Hill

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  The Sales Department

  Accounts

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2008

  MD Matheson quietly retired his Beef Terminal alter ego late in 2006 after three wonderful full-lengths for Noise Factory and activated the...

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  Mahjongg

  Kontpab

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2008

  Can you make indie kids dance? Can you do that and not alienate rhythmically challenged hipsters whose noses grow crooked at any whiff of "...

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  Evangelicals

  The Evening Descends

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2008

  Perhaps it was their lysergicly-enhanced sound or their geographic proximity, but this Oklahoman trio’s 2006 debut, So Gone, drew many (fav...

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  Drift

  Ceiling Sky

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2008

  With their 2005 release, Noumena, this San Francisco crew eked out a patch of post-rock ground that abutted against the jazz/fusion propert...

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  Oren Ambarchi

  In The Pendulum's Embrace

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2008

  With recent group work that has swung from the high brow (Keith Rowe) to Cro-Magnon browed (Sunn O)))), Australian guitarist Ambarchi retur...

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  Goldmund

  Two Point Discrimination

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2008

  Like fellow traveller Sylvain Chauveau, Bostonian Keith Kenniff is a sometimes electronics artist (recording as Helios) who spends his moon...

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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...