Love Streams

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AlbumApr 08 / 201611 songs, 42m 55s98%
Ambient Glitch
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8.2 / 10

Love Streams marks a subtle shift in Tim Hecker's habitual style, a pivot away from his hazy trademark.

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Now three years removed from Virgins—his widely touted 2013 album that is as effectively confrontational as it is contemplative—artist Tim Hecker returns with his first record for 4AD. Love Streams feels decidedly distant by comparison, less an up-close pen-and-notebook study of the complexity of sound and more an…

5 / 10

Hecker has once again shaped something that feels weighty and important, shafts of light illuminating the dark landscape.

Canadian experimental ambient artist Tim Hecker made his debut on the legendary 4AD label with one of his most ambitious works yet, 2016's Love Streams.

Canadian ambient/drone wunderkind Tim Hecker returns with his eighth album, and first for 4AD. Expanding on previous LP Virgins, it's a triumph.

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Reconvening in Reykjavík with Virgins collaborators Ben Frost, Kara-Lis Coverdale and Grímur Helgason, Los Angeles and Montreal-based sounds...

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For his eighth studio album, Canadian-born Tim Hecker returned to Greenhouse studios in Iceland where he had previously worked on parts of his two

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Simply enough, Tim Hecker's eighth album, 'Love Streams,' is a discomforting listen. Read our review.

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This Vancouver-born leftfield composer’s intense, high-concept swathes of electronic noise prove remarkably easy to get lost in

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Album Reviews: Tim Hecker - Love Streams

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