- Artist
- Tim Hecker
- ReleaseProduct
- No Highs
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- KRANK239
- Release Date
- April 7, 2023
Press Release
The latest by Canadian composer Tim Hecker serves as a beacon of unease against the deluge of false positive corporate ambient currently in vogue.
Whether taken as warning or promise, No Highs delivers – this is music of austerity and ambiguity, purgatorial and seasick. A jagged anti-relaxant for our medicated age, rough-hewn and undefined.
Morse code pulse programming flickers like distress signals while a gathering storm of strings, noise, and low-end looms in the distance. Processed electronics shiver and shudder against pitch-shifting assemblages of crackling voltage, mantric horns (including exquisite modal sax by Colin Stetson), and cathedral keys. 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.
Track List
- Monotony
- Glissalia.
- Total Garbage
- Lotus Light
- Winter Cop
- In your Mind
- Monotony II
- Pulse Depression
- Anxiety
- Sense Suppression
- Living Spa Water
Tim Hecker
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- Artist
- Tim Hecker
- ReleaseProduct
- The North Water (Original Score)
- Label
- INVADA Records
- Catalogue Number
- LSINV277D
- Release Date
- September 10, 2021
- LP (special)
- CD
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- Artist
- Tim Hecker
- ReleaseProduct
- Anoyo
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- krank220
- Release Date
- May 10, 2019
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Tim Hecker
- ReleaseProduct
- Konoyo
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- krank219
- Release Date
- September 28, 2018
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Tim Hecker
- ReleaseProduct
- Radio Amor
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- KRANK212LP
- Release Date
- July 6, 2018
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Tim Hecker
- ReleaseProduct
- Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- KRANK211LP
- Release Date
- July 6, 2018
- CD
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- Artist
- Tim Hecker
- ReleaseProduct
- Love Streams
- Label
- 4AD
- Catalogue Number
- EAD3614A
- Release Date
- April 8, 2016
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Tim Hecker
- ReleaseProduct
- Love Streams
- Label
- 4AD
- Catalogue Number
- EAD3614A
- Release Date
- April 8, 2016
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- Artist
- Tim Hecker
- ReleaseProduct
- Norberg / Apondalifa
- Label
- Room 40
- Catalogue Number
- RM467
- Release Date
- October 28, 2015
- LP
Kranky
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- Artist
- Loscil & Lawrence English
- ReleaseProduct
- Colours of Air
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- krank236
- Release Date
- February 3, 2023
- CD
- Download
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- Artist
- Christina Vantzou
- ReleaseProduct
- No. 5
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- KRANK235
- Release Date
- November 11, 2022
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Earthen Sea
- ReleaseProduct
- Ghost Poems
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- krank234
- Release Date
- April 15, 2022
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Pan American
- ReleaseProduct
- The Patience Fader
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- krank232
- Release Date
- February 18, 2022
- LP
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- Artist
- Loscil
- ReleaseProduct
- coast/range/arc//
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- krank229
- Release Date
- October 16, 2020
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- CD
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- Artist
- Ana Roxanne
- ReleaseProduct
- Because Of A Flower
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- krank230
- Release Date
- October 2, 2020
- LP
- CD
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