Hecker, Tim / No Highs
Album: | No Highs | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Hecker, Tim | Added: | Apr 2023 | |
Label: | Kranky |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2023-08-09 | Pull Date: | 2023-10-11 |
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Week Ending: | Oct 1 | Sep 24 | Sep 17 | Sep 10 | Sep 3 | Aug 27 | Aug 20 | Aug 13 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Sep 30, 2023: | Music Casserole
In Your Mind |
4. | Sep 09, 2023: | Music Casserole
In Your Mind |
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2. | Sep 23, 2023: | CATTYWAMPUS
Monotony |
5. | Sep 02, 2023: | Music Casserole
In Your Mind, Living Spa Water |
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3. | Sep 14, 2023: | deep storage
Lotus Light |
6. | Aug 26, 2023: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
Lotus Light |
Album Review
HYPRK
Reviewed 2023-05-01
Reviewed 2023-05-01
Drone Hall of Famer and KZSU favorite Tim Hecker decides he’s lowkey fed up with all the commercialized “nice” ambient music saturating the genre and serves up a very brooding, chiseled album. If you are a fan of his albums like Virgins and Mirages, you’ll dig this for sure. Slow crescendos, rusted-out cavernous expanses, and low-end rumble galore. All tracks instrumental and FCC Clean.
RIYL: Steve Reich, William Basinski, Fennesz, Eluvium, Sonic Meditations
TRY: 1, 7, 5, 11
(1.) (8:22) Gentle piano intro that is soon joined by groaning strings. Builds up into a crunchy bass-soaked texture
(2.) (2:58) Shifting tones, uneasy atmosphere
(3.) (2:40) Abrasive synthesizer, very dry string accompaniment, troubled but steady beat
(4.) (8:31) Frantic and repetitive, with harsh metal-on-metal groaning
(5.) (2:35) Reverb-drenched Caretaker-esque ambient wanderings
(6.) (3:35) More repetitive Philip Glass shenanigans, only this time they blossom into expansive, high-altitude drone landscapes
(7.) (2:57) Fluttery saxophone + looped staccato loops. Slow fade out
(8.) (2:27) Minimal and forlorn. Deconstructed loops from previous tracks
(9.) (8:16) Anxious. Quick-repeating tones with a blustery backdrop
(10.) (2:04) Slow, bleak, haunting
(11.) (6:46) Meandering, aqueous with warbly pitch shifts. Slow crescendo with strings
RIYL: Steve Reich, William Basinski, Fennesz, Eluvium, Sonic Meditations
TRY: 1, 7, 5, 11
(1.) (8:22) Gentle piano intro that is soon joined by groaning strings. Builds up into a crunchy bass-soaked texture
(2.) (2:58) Shifting tones, uneasy atmosphere
(3.) (2:40) Abrasive synthesizer, very dry string accompaniment, troubled but steady beat
(4.) (8:31) Frantic and repetitive, with harsh metal-on-metal groaning
(5.) (2:35) Reverb-drenched Caretaker-esque ambient wanderings
(6.) (3:35) More repetitive Philip Glass shenanigans, only this time they blossom into expansive, high-altitude drone landscapes
(7.) (2:57) Fluttery saxophone + looped staccato loops. Slow fade out
(8.) (2:27) Minimal and forlorn. Deconstructed loops from previous tracks
(9.) (8:16) Anxious. Quick-repeating tones with a blustery backdrop
(10.) (2:04) Slow, bleak, haunting
(11.) (6:46) Meandering, aqueous with warbly pitch shifts. Slow crescendo with strings
Track Listing
1. | Monotony | 6. | In Your Mind | |||
2. | Glissalia | 7. | Metonomy Ii | |||
3. | Total Garbage | 8. | Pulse Depression | |||
4. | Lotus Light | 9. | Anxiety | |||
5. | Winter Cop | 10. | Sense Supression | |||
11. | Living Spa Water |