Robin Hilton

A Band Becomes Animation, With Amazing Results

Robin Hilton — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:05:04 +0000

Stop motion with live actors is nothing new in music videos. The Beatles did it nearly 50 years ago for the film A Hard Days Night. Peter Gabriel's 1986 "Sledgehammer" video is still mind-blowing. But few have done it as elegantly as Canadian rock duo The Zolas do for the band's mesmerizing, and amazing new video, "Knot In My Heart."

What you see isn't digital trickery.

A perpetual debate: Owning music in the digital age

Robin Hilton — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:20:28 +0000

This past weekend's post from Emily White, our current All Songs Considered intern, provoked heated discussion about the current state and possible future of music consumption and creation.

Japan's tsunami recalled in beautifully animated Simone White song

Robin Hilton — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:36:06 +0000

The Los Angeles-based singer Simone White has a voice like ether. It's sweetly airy and hypnotic. Hearing it can pull you under to a strangely beautiful, glittering world where nothing seems real.

On "In The Water Where The City Ends," from her latest record, Silver Silver, White's voice is at its most haunting as she recalls, in disjointed poetry, the tsunami that devastated Japan's Tohoku region last year.

"I wrote this song after the tsunami last year," White says.