Tim Hecker - Love Streams (2016)

Tim Hecker has revealed details of his latest album, and first record for 4AD. The Canadian composer will release Love Streams on April 8, 2016. Love Streams takes its cues from the avant-classical orchestration and extreme electronic processing of his previous full-length, 2013’s Virgins, but shaped into more melancholic, ultraviolet hues. Inspired by notions of 15th century choral scores (particularly those by Josquin des Prez), transposed to an artificial intelligence-era language of digital resonance and bright synths, the album was assembled gradually, with layers of studio-tracked keyboards, choir and woodwinds being woven into the mix, then molded and disfigured through complex programming. Like hearing some ancient strain of sacred music corrupted by encryption, Hecker admits to thinking about ideas like “liturgical aesthestics after Yeezus” and the “transcendental voice in the age of auto-tune,” during its creation.

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 Voice Crack
10 Collapse Sonata
11 Black Phase