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Tim Hecker

Holding the Whole World
about 1 year ago
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I've gushed about Tim Hecker way way too much here on MOG. He's my favourite musician. I find his deconstructions of musical elements to be moving and deeply inspirational. Like I've written elsewhere, it sounds like either remembering or forgetting, or some kind of recorded stream of that process happening in someone or even in a landscape, like an architecture remembering its future. But this...

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Barrie’s Big Best-of 2006 List: Favourite Songs, #2
over 2 years ago

2. Tim Hecker - Dungeoneering (from "Harmony in Ultraviolet")A rotating, cyclical machine sound, full of life but cold as death. This is the sound that power pylons make on cold winter nights, as they sing to each other songs about high-frequency oscillation and its effects upon snowflakes. Industrial yard lights spire up into the frozen sky, shimmering a quiet hymn to the groaning aurora borea...

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Barrie's Big Best-of 2006 List: Part Five
over 2 years ago
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Here we go, the end of the album reviews! Now that it's April I feel embarrassingly late posting this, but I'm glad I got it all done.I'll upload my top 10 favouring songs of 2006 in separate tracks, each with an mp3 embed!1. Tim Hecker - Harmony in UltravioletWhat more about this album can I say than I already have? Well, a lot actually - and that's a testament to how incredible this album rea...

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Tim Hecker
3 months ago
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
4 months ago

Tim Hecker is not nearly as celebrated as he ought to be, though this notion presents quite a dilemma. His influence stretches far and wide - you hear him in everything from ambient-minded Boards of Canada and Fennesz to pop-oriented M83 (before they sucked it) and Manitoba, to artists that blend the two extremes [...]

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Holding the Whole World
about 1 year ago
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I've gushed about Tim Hecker way way too much here on MOG. He's my favourite musician. I find his deconstructions of musical elements to be moving and deeply inspirational. Like I've written elsewhere, it sounds like either remembering or forgetting, or some kind of recorded stream of that process happening in someone or even in a landscape, like an architecture remembering its future. But this...

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Holding the Whole World (2)
about 1 year ago

Here is the other side of Atlas.These tracks are quite a bit more intimate and close than the huge oceanic expanse of his last album.

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Barrie's Big Best-of 2006 List: Part Five
over 2 years ago
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Here we go, the end of the album reviews! Now that it's April I feel embarrassingly late posting this, but I'm glad I got it all done.I'll upload my top 10 favouring songs of 2006 in separate tracks, each with an mp3 embed!1. Tim Hecker - Harmony in UltravioletWhat more about this album can I say than I already have? Well, a lot actually - and that's a testament to how incredible this album rea...

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