Virgins
by Tim Hecker
- Type: Album
- Released: October 14, 2013
- Label: Kranky, Paper Bag
- Country: Canada
- Length: 48:45
- Community rating: 4.22/5 from 19 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Virgins', Tim Hecker pivots from pure ambient textures towards a more confrontational and percussive sound, constructed from live ensemble recordings of piano, woodwinds, and synthesizers. The resulting compositions are intentionally out of phase and rhythmically disjointed, creating a raw, abstract, and visceral palette that feels both meticulously sculpted and chaotically beautiful. This approach melds acoustic dissonance with electronic processing to evoke a sense of exhilarating bleakness and primal awe.
Genres
Descriptors: distorted, maximalist, abrasive, crescendo, dissonant, ambient, droning, piano, textured, atmospheric
Tracklist
- Prism (02:53)
- Virginal I (06:16)
- Radiance (03:22)
- Live Room (07:01)
- Live Room Out (02:37)
- Virginal II (05:23)
- Black Refraction (03:33)
- Incense at Abu Ghraib (01:53)
- Amps, Drugs, Harmonium (03:03)
- Stigmata I (02:18)
- Stigmata II (03:56)
- Stab Variation (06:30)
Credits
- Tim Hecker - mixing, piano, synthesizers
- Ben Frost - performing, engineering
- Gr铆mur Helgason - performing, woodwinds
- Kara-Lis Coverdale - performing, keyboards, piano
- Paul Matthew Moore - performing
- Valgeir Sigur冒sson - performing, mixing
- Paul Corley - engineering
- Randall Dunn - engineering
- Mandy Parnell - mastering
- David Nakamoto - design, layout