Pitchfork

While his peers in ambient music seem content to explore cosmic and terrestrial realms, Canada's Tim Hecker crafts electronic compositions that evoke vast innerspaces as much as outer, both synthetic and organic. A study in contradiction, his pieces temper the warm, the rich, and the inviting with coldness, distance, and longing.

It's the womb-warm, arpeggiated bassline forming the underbelly of "Chimeras"-- from Hecker's forthcoming longplayer Harmony in Ultraviolet (October 16, Kranky)-- that lures us in here. But just as we start to get comfortable, a reverb-soaked guitar creeps in, lending the track a sense of restless yearning. Elementally simple, really, but profoundly affecting.

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#0043 > Tim Hecker: "Chimeras"
[from Harmony in Ultraviolet; Kranky Records]
Info: [Tim Hecker] | [MySpace] | [Kranky]

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