1 Mile North is a meeting of two measured thinkers, each treading the line between composer and pop musician. Jon Hills has played the guitar since his youth, but his current work dates from early 1995, when he started crafting solo guitar works in earnest. In the years since, he has quietly developed into one of the stronger compositional guitarists recording in our overloaded 'post-rock' world. Jon's clear, precise playing creates original atmospheres of melody rather than mist. Like Vini Reilly's Durutti Column, and the work of David Pajo and Brian McMahan since the dissolution of Slint, 1 Mile North's guitarist knows how to create patient works using only his instrument, steering clear of the monotonous effects-pedals and treatments too often accepted for their familiar sound.