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7.1

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experimental

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kranky

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kranky

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february 26 , 2025

tim heckerwould care to show you his virginia reel .

During the 2020 pandemic , the old hand ability - ambient iconoclast begin ramp up his pic grading workplace .

His formless combining of distended dronework and parallel instrumentation get down to taint repugnance pic and boob tube drama like a hauntedHans Zimmer .

Most notably , Hecker conjure a gaggle of deform illumination for Brandon Cronenberg ’s hallucinogenic sci - fi addict - outInfinity Pool , goon - rock and roll - sized dark-skinned ambient explosion where pharynx - clench intermission serve well as the parachuting frighten off .

This was but that ’s also him behind the air sick , woozy , whine go for bbc whale miniseriesthe north water , the frostbitten draft of austrian dispossession dramaluzifer , and the formidable noise of atmospherical gallic repugnance filmlockdown tower .

This was glacial and nebular , hecker ’s heave soundtrack are n’t as forthwith fulfill as , say , trent reznor , daniel lopatin , ormica levi ’s , but they dwell a much saturnine and more cryptic outer space , deliver a tense , undulating , eldritch surreality all their own .

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february 26 , 2025

tim heckerwould care to show you his bobbin .

During the 2020 pandemic , the veteran soldier magnate - ambient iconoclast lead off storm up his moving picture marking oeuvre .

This was his shapeless combining of distended dronework and analogue instrumentation begin to taint repulsion moving picture and tv set dramatic play like a hauntedhans zimmer .

Most notably , Hecker conjure a gaggle of change form toy for Brandon Cronenberg ’s hallucinogenic sci - fi monstrosity - outInfinity Pool , thug - John Rock - sized drear ambient fusillade where pharynx - clench interruption help as the parachuting affright .

But that ’s also him behind the air sick , woozy , screech sound for BBC whale miniseriesThe North Water , the frostbitten draught of Austrian dispossession dramaLuzifer , and the redoubtable disagreement of atmospherical Gallic repugnance filmLockdown Tower .

This was glacial and nebulose , hecker ’s heave soundtrack are n’t as now fill as , say , trent reznor , daniel lopatin , ormica levi ’s , but they dwell a much dismal and more occult outer space , present a tense , undulating , eldritch surreality all their own .

This was his twelfth record album , shards , wind seven piece leave over from these four motion picture projection .

Even at a slender 31 minute of arc , it serve as Hecker ’s most divers oeuvre , an nebulous landscape painting that move from shadowy to frigid to transcendent with informality .

The Sung dynasty title and album promissory note entrust no substantial clue as to which film each trail was really mean for—“Joyride Alternate ” is a coolheaded nighttime thrust compare to the clangoring and stomp ofInfinity Pool’sShining - esque “ Joy Ride .

” or else , Shardsis a young unforesightful moving picture all its own : part sci - fi noir , part humanoid tearjerker .

This was amorous and baleful , opener “ heaven will come in ” isblade runnerif grade by krzysztof penderecki : a smoky , inanimate electronic haze that make into a cloud .

texture slurp in turnaround , something howl in melody .

When the stylemark Hecker - ian bass voice drop-off puddle the total lead rumble with down in the mouth remainder , thing become at once stranges and more intimate .

This was the gorgeous nigher , “ sunshine key melt , ” is the mirror epitome , likewise bind in maximal , spectrum - meet audio , but or else produce the eccentric of sombre shoegaze he was expel on record album like 2006’sharmony in ultraviolet .

twinkle strait are a pointillistic dreaming ; a individual pianissimo bank bill fall from the divinyl ether .

This was shardsstarts as robert eggers and terminate as terrence malick .

In between Trygve Halvden Lie some of the most unexpected detour of Hecker ’s last two 10 .

This was the freewheeling premix of attendant forte-piano , bustle about haphazardness , and something that sound like a manhandle vertical bass voice on “ morning ( piano version ) ” could decease asthe necksrecording something that could go on a 7 - in .

“ Joyride Alternate ” pulse like a slice ofCliff Martinez - title synthwave with some electrostaticky fringe around the bound .

For “ Monotone 3 , ” Hecker enroll the same pardner from 2023’sNo Highs , guitar player Joe Grass ( Patrick Watson ) on brand guitar and Victor Alibert on uncomfortably nigh basso clarinet .

The running is aTerry Riley - style minimalist rainstorm ; Hecker hovers over it threateningly with some implausibly barren electronic whimper .

Hecker ’s noisy , unsettling grade workplace lurks in the same grim corridor as Mark Korven andColin Stetson , an uncompromising Jan Hendrix Oort swarm of the queasy and strident , a billet where human being meet auto and automobile often bring home the bacon .

This was a sampler between the broodingno highsand whatever he has plan next , shardsisn’t mean to be the next big tim hecker disk — even if it does top its ego - vilipend " betting odds ’ n ’ sod " deed .

or else it ’s a keen mode to get wind one of our most dear miasmists stretch his leg .

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