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Universal acclaim- based on 43 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 37 out of 43
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Mixed: 4 out of 43
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Negative: 2 out of 43
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Jul 26, 2022Tim really deliverd with his dark take on church instruments and sounds. This feels so chaotic and abrasive as it does equally peaceful. A beautiful yet bleak landscape for us to wallow in. I loved this . Favourites:the fog(all),in the air (all)
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Jan 2, 2023
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Oct 13, 2011
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Mar 12, 2012Tim Hecker's sixth offering is absolutely captivating. Filled with bleak, melancholic and beautiful soundscapes, and conveying a sense of emotional depth not often reached by ambient musicians. Ravedeath, 1972 is my favourite Tim Hecker album, and the best ambient release of the year.
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Sep 2, 2011Has 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.
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Sep 14, 2011Tim 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.
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Sep 28, 2012I am a massive fan of Hecker, and the way he can manipulate a church organ into the most beautiful, delicate, eerie, catastrophic, emotional, beautiful & destructive album I have ever listened to is unbelievable. This album's perfection & beauty cannot be put into words; The best album of 2011 in my opinion.
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Oct 16, 2013
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Mar 8, 2011
Awards & Rankings
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May 18, 2011It has many of the same sounds and instruments he relies upon-mauled pianos, organs, and guitars, mostly-but the way they're structured within the songs and as part of the whole are new. The record seems to have no center, no shining single moment, no climax or vortex. Instead it hovers lightly but ominously, like the notes in the songs themselves, hanging in midair without ever dropping to the floor.
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The WireApr 28, 2011The 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]
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Apr 12, 2011What resulted is ultimately an album of destructive beauty. Elegance married with sonic destruction!