The third full-length from these Sacramento noise-rock heroes is a double album with drummer Zach Hill and guitarist Spencer Seim each claiming their own disc, performing an entire record on their own. Hill's Church Gone Wild delivers a dark and menacing onslaught of aggression and guts, while Seim's Chirpin Hard brings out a lighthearted but wholly technical and equally impressive spattering of pop and punk melded in the hot pot of the computer and video game age. This album re-establishes Hella as the ki...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Exact repro reissue of pianist Andrew Hill's fourth album for Blue Note, originally released in 1964. Hill has been described as "the most deft avant-garde artist in jazz" (PopMatters). Featuring Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Eric Dolphy (alto sax, flute and bass clarinet), Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Richard Davis (bass) and Anthony Williams (drums). "The pieces on Point of Departure don't flow and develop, and they don't have a lot of built-in contrast; there's no crescendo or denouement in the ex...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! For Hill's own solo release he enlisted a number of former recording partners and included a number of new ones. Guests contributing to Astrological Straits include Les Claypool, Chino Moreno, No Age's Randy Randall and Dean Spunt, !!!/LCD Soundsystem's Tyler Pope, Marco Benevento, Prints' Zac Nelson, Marnie Stern, The Flying Luttenbacher's Jonathon Hicshke, Satori/RX Bandit's Steve Borth, The Advantage's Robbie Moncrief, Them Hills' Dan Elkan and Hella bandmates Ca...   [ read more ]

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