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No Highs
''No Highs'' is the eleventh studio album by Canadian Ambient music, ambient musician Tim Hecker, released on April 7, 2023, via Kranky (record label), Kranky. Background The album's liner notes discussed ambient music's place in the modern era. The notes read "[the album] serves as a beacon of unease against the deluge of false positive corporate ambient currently in vogue". The album is Hecker's reaction to this "soothing", corporate ambient, as shown in the album's anxious and fretful sound. The album was also seen as a response to the rise of ambient music on Music streaming service, streaming services, which, according to ''The Guardian'', "[threatens to] reduce ambient to a genre of convenience". Pitchfork (website), ''Pitchfork'' wrote that "ambient music is in crisis" due to the abundance of channels on streaming services which "guarantee hours of chilled-out, challenge-free audio". Music ''No Highs'' is an ambient album. The album is departure of the sound of Hecke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Hecker
Tim Hecker is a Canadian electronic musician, producer, composer, and sound artist. His work, spanning atmospheric ambient albums such as ''Harmony in Ultraviolet'' (2006), ''Ravedeath, 1972'' (2011) and ''Virgins'' (2013), has been widely critically acclaimed. He has released nine albums and a number of EPs in addition to a number of film scores and collaborations with artists such as Arca, Ben Frost, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Daniel Lopatin, and Aidan Baker. Biography Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Hecker is the son of two art teachers. During his high school years, he played in rock bands with friends, before acquiring a sampler and working on solo material. He moved to Montreal, Quebec in 1998 to study at Concordia University and explore his artistic interests further."Spin Interview 2013" [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
