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Oct 16, 201395Its a testament to the fact that Tim Hecker is one of the best artists making music today, constantly pushing his sound to new heights while keep his signature style at the core of it all.
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Oct 15, 201390There's an exhilarating bleakness at the center of Virgins--the hollow at the heart of all things, nibbling inexorably away.
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Oct 15, 201390Excavation is entirely capable of conjuring up all sorts of images in your mind while the music plays, but Virgins keeps you focused instead on what’s happening inside of it; for music with so few conventional entry points, Hecker has again managed to make his work structurally and viscerally gripping.
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Oct 15, 201385In the end, Virgins only adds to the artist's growing legacy; it's another triumph for Hecker that once again strikes a resounding chord that not many ambient records can.
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Oct 15, 201383This is music that benefits from being heard loud and/or on headphones in the same way couches are best experienced by actually sitting down in them instead of just brushing your fingers against the upholstery as you leave the room.
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Oct 14, 201380Hecker's sound signature may still be instantly recognizable, but there is no denying that he has moved significantly farther down the path toward something else with Virgins.
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Oct 14, 201380He’s mastered this stylistic skittishness and you’ll do well to find much dispute about his talent.
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Oct 14, 201380Virgins is Tim Hecker at his most thought-provoking and enigmatic.
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Oct 14, 201380There is a kind of pure, cathartic rage in Virgins and it leaves moments of intense peace in its wake.
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Oct 11, 201380An engaging, rewarding whole [that] speaks volumes about the breadth of both of his imagination and compositional agility. [Nov 2013, p.86]
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Oct 11, 201380A daringly deconstructed soundtrack of the spheres.
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Oct 10, 201380While "Incense At Abu Ghraib" has a horror auteur's knack for intimidation, a shrill whistle barely masking the sound of feet on metal stairs. It's masterful, though it'll leave you feeling like a speck of gravel in self-destructing world. [Nov 2013, p.72]
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Oct 10, 201380Another essential release then, but a step towards theory-over-content that Hecker never really needed.
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Oct 10, 201380The result, unexpectedly, is his most ambitious record yet.
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Oct 10, 201380The layers of noise, which at first may seem intimidating, are so harmonically rich they immerse the listener as the sounds interact creating new and unexpectedly mellifluous sounds.
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Oct 15, 201370This is an intense, unsettling work from the Canadian musician and if it doesn't quite reach the heights of Ravedeath, it's mostly down to Virgins lacking the fluid album arc of the former and not because the tracks are any less powerful.
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