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May 13, 2019This is a world to become truly lost within. Fair warning, you may not want to come out.
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May 10, 2019While Hecker continues to be a paradigm in formulating how sound exists, he proves with Anoyo what it means to extend his means and throughout its cleansing spirit, Hecker evokes a bewitching status, serving as one of today’s continued and top creators of elysian odysseys.
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The WireMay 20, 2019But where Konoyo was a more visceral invocation of the electronic sublime, Anoyo stretches out and creates space for the reeds to be heard amid the splices, obstructions and reversals of the Los Angeles based producer’s typically stratified sonic design. [May 2019, p.67]
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May 14, 2019Because Anoyo is not just a companion work to Hecker's monumental record, but rather a fantastic conclusion to a stunning journey that started through the overwhelming presence of Konoyo, inside this world, and now finished through the beautiful, dreamlike sceneries of Anoyo.
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May 8, 2019On Anoyo, Tim Hecker stretches out his heady winning streak for another 32 striking and captivating minutes.
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May 8, 2019Despite its brevity Anoyo contains some of the most straightforwardly beautiful music Hecker has made in some time, and makes for a strong companion and continuation to the themes and sonic developments made on Konoyo.
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May 10, 2019Hecker’s music is not easy, but it is worthwhile.
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May 28, 2019Going back to make a new album from sessions that had already been used could have ended up sounding overworked. Instead, Anoyo is the counterbalance to what has been done. These albums shouldn't be compared, but taken in together.
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Jun 18, 2019The work exists as something greater than the sum of its parts, an emergent property of the dynamism at work within each track, where the tension of the parts is as perfectly balanced as a thread pulled until its threads separate at the middle, revealing the multitude and the void that exists at the heart of things.
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May 9, 2019The less charitable may call this record a collection of leftovers, in the manner of Radiohead‘s Amnesiac to Kid A. But Anoyo succeeds on its own terms too: the combination of sounds is still captivating, especially recommended for anyone who feels to this day that new age music was underrated.
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UncutMay 8, 2019Despite occasional hints of tastefully anodyne sonic wallpaper, most of these painstaking musical haikus have a quietly potent and gently mesmerising beauty. [Jun 2019, p.29]
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May 8, 2019Compared to the astonishing Konoyo, Anoyo does feel a bit like less focused variations on the same ideas, but as it stands, it's still an intriguing, otherworldly blend of ancient instrumentation and technological exploration.
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Jun 19, 2019While Anoyo's showcase of Hecker's ambient textures, paired with Gagaku, is organic and interesting, it feels like a retread of ideas or an assemblage of scraps from the recording of Konoyo.
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Oct 26, 2022