Hilkka

about

Rochester, New York's Hilkka are students in the Slint school of wandering, fractured guitar-driven indie rock. Their tightly woven mostly instrumental songs stretch through space like luminescent spider webs of sound. Nuuj Von Rock's guitar is always front and center, meandering from free jazz-style improvisations to tasty pop melodies to math rock aggression. Alex Schmidt's bass follows, heavy and subterranean, like the reflection of Rock's guitar parts in dark waters. Drummer Joe Tunis provides nervous, skittery rhythms as well as occasional Slint-like esoteric spoken word lyrical fragments. Hilkka has been a force in the Northeast since the mid-'90s, sharing stages with numerous quality indie and math rock acts, appearing on compilations, putting out seven-inches and putting out a couple of full-lengths -- 1999's The Beautiful Aesthetician and 2000's Escalation/Objective. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

albums

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in cooperation with gravity

Escalation/objective

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Escalation / Objective

The Beautiful Aesthetician

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Kids Can Learn From Pi

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i don't think the dirt belongs to the grass

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I Don't Think the Dirt Belongs to the Grass [Disc 01 of 03, 'Rochester']

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Rakkaimmat Wanhanajan Joululaulut, Vol. 2

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I Don't Think The Dirt Belongs To The Grass - Disc1

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beautiful aesthetician

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beautiful aesthetician - CR17

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I Don't Think The Dirt Belongs To The Grass - Disc 1 - Rochester

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