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
Week Ending: Oct 1 Sep 24 Sep 17 Sep 10 Sep 3 Aug 27 Aug 20 Aug 13
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
2. Sep 23, 2023: CATTYWAMPUS
Monotony
5. Sep 02, 2023: Music Casserole
In Your Mind, Living Spa Water
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
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

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