Apr 15

4 new songs from the self-proclaimed “Olsen twins of blissed-out drone” (explanation: “one of us looks like a fancy and one of us looks like a crazy, and we drink a lot of tea and talk a lot of shit and hang out together”). Super slow-moving, hypnotic, yet somewhat sinister songs (you almost feel as if the music is keeping a secret from you). They combine droning guitar melodies with sparse drums and chant-like, echoing vocals to create their haunting sound. Listening to this, I get the image of someone floating down a river in a rainforest in a canoe at night, wondering what is just around the riverbend (HA, get it?), so if you ever get a chance to do that, let this be your soundtrack. I’m also reminded of one of those old movies where some explorer is wandering through the Amazon on an expedition, and he hears this tribal chanting in the distance, and he is torn between satisfying his curiosity and protecting his own safety, but he continues on and the chanting gets louder, and eventually he stumbles into this tribal ritual and gets captured. Maybe I’m the only one who thinks this…Listen and make your own story.

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Mar 17

This is going to be one of the top ambient releases of the year, from the same guy who brought you one of the best ambient albums last year, Harmony in Ultraviolet. It’s late and I’m tired, and describing ambient music is generally long, flowery bullshit which I’m just not interested in typing now - suffice it to say that this album is a little more gentle and hypnotic than his last, but at the same time just as hauntingly vague and tenuous as all other Hecker releases. You should buy it cuz kranky’s an incredible album with a lot of great artists and they’ve really popularized ambient music in the indie-mainstream more and helped to bring about an evolution and renaissance of ambient music over the years.

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