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Throughout, the pieces both accrue and avoid drama, more attuned to undertow than crescendo. Hecker mentions “negation” as a muse of sorts – the sense of tumult without bombast, tethered ecstasies, an escape from escapism. His is an antagonism both brusque and beguiling, devoid of resolution, beckoning the listener ever deeper into its greyscale alchemies of magisterial disquiet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kranky","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50389360148811,"sku":"2009339","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CDx2","offer_id":50389360116043,"sku":"2009001","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0-1_98f36788_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726358464"},{"product_id":"love-streams","title":"Love Streams","description":"\u003cp\u003eCanadian composer Tim Hecker releases his latest album 'Love Streams', and first record for 4AD. 'Love Streams' takes its cues from the avant-classical orchestration and extreme electronic processing of his previous full-length, 2013's 'Virgins', but shaped into more melancholic, ultraviolet hues. Inspired by notions of 15th century choral scores (particularly those by Josquin des Prez), transposed to an artificial intelligence-era language of digital resonance and bright synths, the album was assembled gradually, with layers of studio-tracked keyboards, choir and woodwinds being woven into the mix, then molded and disfigured through complex programming. Like hearing some ancient strain of sacred music corrupted by encryption, Hecker admits to thinking about ideas like \"liturgical aesthestics after Yeezus\" and the \"transcendental voice in the age of auto-tune,\" during its creation. The 'Love Streams' sessions took place throughout 2014 and 2015 at Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik, Iceland - where parts of both 'Virgins' and 'Ravedeath, 1972' were tracked - with Hecker reuniting with the same crew of collaborators from 'Virgins' (Kara-Lis Coverdale, Grímur Helgason) and bolstered by the Icelandic Choir Ensemble, whose vocal arrangements were scored by Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson. The title of Hecker's new work can be interpreted any number of ways - erotic, technological, spiritual - although his own conception is appropriately vast, calling it \"a riff on the ubiquity and nihilism of streaming of all forms of life.\" Now we stream more than we love. Nowadays music too frequently resembles a product, or white noise. 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Many have tried to emulate his sound, but few have come close, and while he peaked with the punishingly noisy and effortlessly beautiful ‘Mirages’ a few years back, his subsequent flirtations with a quieter, more meditative sound have been similarly arresting. Unusually, ‘Ravedeath, 1972’ sees Hecker moving away from his comfort zone and collaborating with one of the very people who attempted a second-wave of the Hecker grit, grind and harmony – Ben Frost. This is a move which saw Hecker up sticks and fly over to Iceland, where he proceeded to record the album over a handful of days using that most hallowed of instruments, the pipe organ. Frost clearly adds some of his production expertise (he moonlights as an engineer) and with this there can be no doubt that ‘Ravedeath,1972’ is the most hi-fi album in Tim Hecker’s discography to date. The crunch that Hecker has made his own is now reproduced in 1080p High Definition, billowing with basses dribbling and treble firing with slick precision. The powerful pipe organ sound underpins everything, coughing, wheezing and stuttering beneath Hecker’s expertly crafted granular sounds like the ghost of the Catholic church itself. At times it might simply appear in amongst a cloud of white noise, and at others there is only the familiar shadowy blast, shrouded in the trappings of morals and dogma. Pitting his knowledge and skill against that of Ben Frost has yielded an album’s worth of crushing, near-spiritual sound, making for a compelling, immersive listen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kranky","offers":[{"title":"LPx2","offer_id":50437118067019,"sku":"335715","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50437118329163,"sku":"335714","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9bff88a3-2588-486a-b262-fd95696e83d2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726925822"},{"product_id":"dropped-pianos","title":"Dropped Pianos","description":"\u003cp\u003ethis new and welcomely out of the blue tim hecker release is composed of sketch pieces recorded in 2010 in preparation for what would become the outstanding 'ravedeath, 1972' album. all of the compositions are piano driven and minimal in nature. this is not a new tim hecker album, but rather a peek behind the curtains into the working process. that these pieces stand on their own as compelling soundworks is a testament to the fact that tim hecker is at the absolute top of his game at the moment, and has been for years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50437119410507,"sku":"344479","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50437120590155,"sku":"344480","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7fc625b9-0c01-434d-83c1-9c545cdba9ac_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726925854"},{"product_id":"an-imaginary-country-1","title":"An Imaginary Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e'an imaginary country' is the stunning second release on kranky for tim hecker and his seventh album in total. previous releases were on alien8, mille plateaux, en\/of, fat cat records. follows a collaboration with aidan baker (nadja) for the alien8 label and a track on kompakt's much praised 'pop ambient 2009' compilation. 'an imaginary country' continues from the trajectory of tim hecker's last album, the critically acclaimed 'harmony in ultraviolet', while also showing a few new tricks. tim has incorporated more pulses into this work and also works with a sound pallete including overdriven mellotron strings and synthesizer. at times this album is less overtly aggressive than previous works, but the notion that this is pastoral work would be dead wrong as there are plenty of the agitated crescendos for which hecker is known. this music backs off from the void of immensity in favor of a terrain of lushness and warmth. with this album tim hecker expands his palette as well as his range, further cementing his reputation as a singular and significant entity in the world of contemporary music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50437121769803,"sku":"311011","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6fa747c6-3c45-4836-9d60-0385eb398127_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726925876"},{"product_id":"the-north-water-original-score","title":"The North Water (Original Score)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTim Hecker's incredible score to \"The North Water\", starring Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth have formats have beautiful artwork throughout using stunning imagery from the film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The score for The North Water was written just before and during the pandemic in 2020, mostly over arguably one of the darkest winters of some memory in Montreal,” says Hecker. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The music was an attempt to add depth and texture to a five-hour doomed arctic journey that charts a trajectory from hardened optimism into abject futility. 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