Album Rating: 5.0

in the air iii is the best ambient track of all time imo

Nah, suite as a whole is probably Hecker's finest moment but each part draws too much on each other to command that kinda platform as a standalone

Agreed, and even the suite feels very consciously like the culmination of what's come before it. Maybe III can take the title for the sort who listens to showtunes outside the show, but I'd far sooner point to the far less context-enriched highlights of Stars of the Lid, Brian Eno, Steve Roach etc

Hell even within Hecker's discog i gotta bring up The Work of Art in the Age of Cultural Overproduction, Dungeoneering, Where Shadows Make Shadows... plenty of standalone greats

Yep, Reflections in Suspension and 1/2 immediately came to mind as solid-but-safe placeholders for that title. The online hivemind would probably have Even If You're Never Awake and Stone in Focus up there, but I smell too many algorithms behind those vibes
For a Hecker entrant, ig you've gotta take one of the twinkles (Transmitting/Borderlands) or go hard on a Konoyo/Radio Amor long boi. This and Virgins both have highlights that lean on sequencing (even if in very different ways) and Haunt Me is a tad too diffuse (though Work of Art is a fair shout)

Idk though, Hecker does have standalone goodness but mostly seems like an emphatically album-artist to me - find it more engaging to hear how many different ways he can refract a single palette than to sink into any given instance if that figures

Makes sense, I basically always listen to his albums front to back so I can't really argue his case as a secret singles artist, but like ur saying solid bench of tracks with some character that's individually gratifying in some way "beyond" (lol) being The Climax Of An Album

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He’s an album-artist for me

Album Rating: 5.0

Still best Heck and one of the greatest albums ever made hands down for me.

Album Rating: 4.5

This one and Harmony are close, though i give the win to the latter. Love this one tho

Album Rating: 5.0

I wouldn't argue with anything being someone's fav except Anoyo, which is still a hard 3.5 for me. Love this guy so much. He's pretty much responsible for getting me into ambient in the first place.

yeah haunt me is my fav but they’re all great

Album Rating: 4.0

Ahh yes, my favourite GLITCH album.

statistically likely does it have any competition
this is much more impressive than Harmony imo and its only real competition for top heck is Konoyo. guy's got a whole load of goodness in his 'mid' tier though, rare to be let down by him

Album Rating: 5.0

Spec jam some more Heck.

Album Rating: 4.0

Okay. Gotta do this one again first though.

Album Rating: 5.0

This is a rare day of zen and man this is hitting.

Album Rating: 5.0

This just never stops hitting boys.

Album Rating: 5.0

Top two ambient album of all-time agreed bros.