Wait a second, friend. Don’t swallow that potassium cyanide and light yourself on fire just yet. These are dark times, but I’ve just received word of a reason to keep going, at least until October: Tim Hecker’s new LP has just been announced! Yes! This life-affirming follow-up to 2011’s Ravedeath, 1972 (TMT Review) is titled Virgins and will be released October 14 through Kranky! I mean, maybe there’s no god, and maybe America is crumbling. But there’s still Canada. There’s still Canada, buddy, and that more-stable country produces great things like Tim Hecker. And Tim Hecker produces great things like what FACT calls “sensual entropy.”
And get this, my little ledge jumper: the new record finds Hecker with an expanded sound, using live ensembles that at times are absent of the distorted gristle he’s known for. With Virgins, he has brought a tighter, more percussive sound and “employs woodwinds, piano and synthesizers towards an effort at doing what digital music does not do naturally — making music that is out of time, out of tune and out of phase.”
I know that I’ve got you interested, got you wanting to hang on and see just what this genius will sound like. “But everything else is terrible,” you say, “like that new Deerhunter record.” That’s true, friend. There will always be Deerhunters in life that we’ll have to deal with. But you can’t have the sweet without the bitter. It makes that sweet all the sweeter.
And hey, look, the record was mixed by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Tim Hecker with additional assistance by Randall Dunn and Ben Frost. You love those guys, right? Take a look at the tracklist below, and I’ll be back with more album details as they become available. Hang in there, friend.
Virgins tracklist:
01. Prism
02. Virginal I
03. Radiance
04. Live Room
05. Live Room Out
06. Virginal II
07. Black Refraction
08. Incense at Abu Ghraib
09. Amps, Drugs, Harmonium
10. Stigmata I
11. Stigmata II
12. Stab Variation
• Tim Hecker: http://www.sunblind.net
• Kranky: http://www.kranky.net
• Immigrate to Canada: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/index.asp
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