No Highs

'No Highs' serves as a conceptual statement against the rise of placid, corporate ambient music, exploring themes of modern anxiety, depression, and isolation. The album's compositions are built upon minimalist, pulsing synthesizers and Hecker's signature church organ, creating a nervous and fretful soundscape that is intentionally less confrontational than his prior works. Contributions from saxophonist Colin Stetson add fluctuating dread to tracks, cementing the album's profoundly lonely and unsettling atmosphere as it reflects a world of 'dead horizons and husk cityscapes'.