Eric Hilton has 30-plus years as a producer, co-founder of Theivery Corporation and all that experience has been channelled into his new album, 'The Easy Underground' - as he weaves his classic trip-hoppy moquette in sound!
You'll remeber the singles, 'Midnight Ragas' featuring Natalia Clavier and Puma Ptah, (see review HERE) before Eric's last album 'A Sky So Close' (see review HERE) and he's at it again, presenting 'Promise Me' (out now) and 'Alma Boa' (out October 30th), the first two singles to be taken from Eric Hilton's forthcoming album 'The Easy Underground', out November 20th.
"I'm intrigued by music that can exist both in the foreground and the background, you just put it on and let it vibe and seep in, in its own way. But if you listen very intently, off in your own little world - you'll get a lot out of it. And that’s a world I call The Easy Underground….” - Eric Hilton
The Easy Underground, Eric Hilton’s stunning new studio album, out November 20th on Monserrat House Records, spirits listeners away to a breezily romantic world of whispered promises and slow-burned deep kisses. Hilton has spent decades architecting these types of sounds as a co-founder of the legendary downtempo electronic combo Thievery Corporation, and across a growing catalog of solo artist releases with flavors of ambient, space groove, acid jazz, and of course trip-hop. But for 'The Easy Underground', Hilton is reconstituting a genre outside his usual orbit - easy listening.
"No one really thinks of easy listening music as “underground" but I do,” says the producer. "Throughout the years of collecting, DJ’ing and curating music for Eighteenth Street Lounge and other spots, I always found the oddball stuff like soundtrack and easy listening records had something interesting about it. It was hard to find, a lot in those genres could be schlocky or corny. Rarely, I’d dig and find a record that was exotic and otherworldly; special. And I made The Easy Underground with that idea, and that spirit,” said Hilton.
Joining Hilton for this project is longtime musical compadre Natalia Clavier, who sings on 9 of the album’s thirteen tracks, in multiple languages. Fans of Thievery Corporation’s 2013 album Saudade will find The Easy Underground tonally adjacent, with flavors of bossa nova, Brazilian rhythms and female vocals present on both. But while the two records share some common ingredients, Hilton's solo recipe has deeper grooves, more space, and isn’t following an established blueprint. He’s taking the easy listening thing and pulling it into the underground.
BUY LINK / PRE-ORDER: https://store.erichilton.com/products/easy-underground-vinyl
Artist: Eric Hilton
Title: Promise Me / Alma Boa
Release date: 30th October, 2026
Label : Montserrat House
Catalog Number : MH031
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
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