• Record Label: Kranky
  • Release Date: May 10, 2019
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
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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's unfortunately forgettable and perhaps some of his least interesting work to date.
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79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.