Mirages

by Tim Hecker

Mirages cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2004-09-20
  • Label: Alien8
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 47:38
  • Community rating: 4.12/5 from 10 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

On 'Mirages', Tim Hecker crafts a dense, frost-bitten soundscape that blurs the line between digital decay and organic warmth. Utilizing heavily processed guitar and electronics, the album evokes a sense of vast, lonely urban spaces at night. It is a key work in his discography, mastering the art of melodic noise.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, noisy, electronic, experimental, distorted, glitchy, ambient, droning, lo-fi, textured, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Acephale (04:57)
  2. Neither More nor Less (03:10)
  3. Aerial Silver (03:37)
  4. Celestina (04:31)
  5. Counter Attack (02:13)
  6. The Truth of Accountants (02:21)
  7. Aerial Light-Pollution Orange (03:09)
  8. Non Mollare (01:10)
  9. Kaito (03:08)
  10. Balkanize-You (08:37)
  11. Incurably Optimistic! (10:45)

Credits

  • Michael Springs - engineer
  • Bobby Ford Sr. - executive-producer
  • Beat Master Clay D. - featuring, music by
  • Clay Dixon - producer
  • DJ Magic Mike - scratches [featuring]
  • Cedric Woodside - written-by
  • MC Cool Rock - written-by

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