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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

  • Summary: The six-track release for the electronic producer was recorded during the same session as 2018's Konoyo.
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  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. May 13, 2019
    90
    This is a world to become truly lost within. Fair warning, you may not want to come out.
  2. 85
    While 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.
  3. The Wire
    May 20, 2019
    80
    But 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]
  4. May 10, 2019
    78
    Hecker’s music is not easy, but it is worthwhile.
  5. May 28, 2019
    76
    Going 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.
  6. Jun 18, 2019
    75
    The 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.
  7. Jun 19, 2019
    60
    While 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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  1. Oct 26, 2022
    6
    Demure in comparison to it's older sibling Konoyo ,Anoyo is a fascinating trudge through what sounds like relatively good B-sides. It'sDemure in comparison to it's older sibling Konoyo ,Anoyo is a fascinating trudge through what sounds like relatively good B-sides. It's unfortunately forgettable and perhaps some of his least interesting work to date. Expand