No Highs
by Tim Hecker
  • Record Label: Kranky
  • Release Date: Apr 7, 2023
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  1. Lajaleaa
    May 25, 2023
    7
    Tim Hecker is a difficult artist for me to grasp, but I'm making my best effort to follow up and, in a way, understand his complete art. Making peace with the idea of not needing to understand it to enjoy it helps, yet, there is still something that hurts a lot when he appears in my environment. "No Highs" might be myself reassuring some things are better left for imagination, speciallyTim Hecker is a difficult artist for me to grasp, but I'm making my best effort to follow up and, in a way, understand his complete art. Making peace with the idea of not needing to understand it to enjoy it helps, yet, there is still something that hurts a lot when he appears in my environment. "No Highs" might be myself reassuring some things are better left for imagination, specially since being surrounded by Hecker, in a way, is surrounding my imagination to a wide and sensible feeling of adrift. I just don't know why there is nothing to hold on to him for me, and yet, I still apreciate the discoveries Hecker proposes.… Expand

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77

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  1. AllMusic
    Apr 27, 2023
    70
    While his music generally fits under the category of ambient, it's never been the type of safe, soothing ambient solely meant to function as background music. ... No Highs especially focuses on dealing with depression, anxiety, and isolation, and its pieces often feel nervous and unbalanced.
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  2. Sputnikmusic
    Apr 14, 2023
    80
    The palettes on offer are frequently gorgeous and sometimes even transcendent, but No Highs' pervasive gloom and downer vibes render it more standoffish than the lofty fear and trembling of Ravedeath or the playful eclecticism of Radio Amor.
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  3. Dusted Magazine
    Apr 12, 2023
    80
    Once the album’s 50 minutes have elapsed, one feels a sense of satisfied exhaustion in having traversed a musical landscape both desolate and majestic.
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