Ravedeath, 1972 - Tim Hecker
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Universal acclaim - based on 17 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

  • Summary: The latest release for the Montreal-based artist was recorded in a church in Iceland.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Mar 14, 2011
    100
    The use of the church organ is a particular masterstroke and it imbues Hecker's compositions here not with grandiosity, but with a sort of faded grandeur that chimes brilliantly with his familiar themes. It also offers a superb range of texture and sound, sometimes attacking and aggressive, at others soft and warm.
  2. Mar 29, 2011
    80
    His primary source is a pipe organ in an Icelandic church, which he processes, filters, deconsecrates, muddles and distorts, and therefore liberates in the course of this album, enabling its latent potential to escape from its wooden room and form a burgeoning cloudscape. [Apr 2011, p.83]
  3. Apr 28, 2011
    80
    The album has almost Wagnerian scope and immersive power, and at just over 50 minutes it's well organised as a start-to-finish listen. [Mar 2011, p.50]
  4. Apr 6, 2011
    80
    Very sad and very beautiful. [Apr 2011, p.100]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. 10
    Tim Hecker more than delivers, giving the listener a beautiful yet bleak landscape to explore. The album's twists and turns remain exciting after multiple listens and stands as the best album of 2011 for me. Expand
  2. A startlingly beautiful album, Hecker's 6th studio effort sees his always immense style become even more so. With a sound never anything less than colossal, "Ravedeath, 1972" was recorded in a church in Iceland which is plain to hear; the sound reverberates to the point that at times it feels as if there's a solid wall of sound surging towards you through your headphones. An enormous ambient masterpiece. Expand
  3. Ravedeath, 1972 is the sixth studio album by Tim Hecker, an electronic musician from Canada. All that you can hear on it is a noise generated by a computer and some piano chords (the LP was recorded at the Free Church in Reykjavík). Nevertheless, Ravedeath stuns with its beauty. Immerse in this body of drone without fear but remember to bring headphones with you: attention is highly required. Oneohtrix Point Never, now itâ Expand
  4. Has anyone actually listened to this CD all the way through. It is unbearable and is like James Blake on downers. Seriously, it is pure noise slowed down to a snails pace and all the drugs in the world can't put Humpty Heckler back together again. Expand

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