Published
Wed, Jan 27, 2016, 16:41
- The Canadian artist's latest album will land in April.
Tim Hecker has revealed his first record for 4AD: Love Streams, due out on April 8th.
News of the Canadian-born, LA-based composer and experimental artist moving from his long-time home of Kranky over to the indie juggernaut broke late last year. Love Streams is the first new material to come from it, and it's also Hecker's first full-length since 2013's Virgins. The label says that the new one is informed by the same "avant-classical orchestration and extreme electronic processing" of Virgins, but "shaped into more melancholic, ultaviolet hues."
Love Streams was heavily influenced by 15th-century choral vocal scores, and features keyboards, woodwind instruments and a choir "molded and disfigured through complex programming." It was recorded in the same Reykjavik studio where Hecker did most of his last two albums, and sees him working with some of the same artists—including Kara-Lis Coverdale and Grimur Helgason—along with Johann Johannson, who wrote the arrangements for the Icelandic Choir Ensemble.
Hecker says the title is "a riff on the ubiquity and nihilism of streaming of all forms of life," and goes on to say that the LP was inspired by the ideas of "liturgical aesthetics after Yeezus" and the "transcendental voice in the age of Autotune."
Tracklist
01. Obsidian Counterpoint
02. Music Of The Air
03. Bijie Dream
04. Live Leak Instrumental
05. Violet Monumental I
06. Violet Monumental II
07. Up Red Bull Creek
08. Castrati Stack
09. Voie Crack
10. Collapse Sonata
11. Black Phase
4AD will release Love Streams on April 8th, 2016.