Album Rating: 3.7

yeah, i can fw this for sure but it's got a bit of that R Plus Seven sterilised lab rat quality to it, which gives me the sense that it won't be one I come back to as much as I might



gonna give it more time and see what happens though

Album Rating: 3.8

There’s something uncanny about Hecker at this point—to me I think Ravedeath introduced the grand synthesis of his perfectionism and the real-time aesthetic, and this album turns that up. But Love Streams is quite different

If anything this album turns that down. I’ve liked most of what he’s done since Ravedeath but I think that album reached heights his others just don’t

Album Rating: 3.7

Ravedeath is very focused take on a very singular aesthetic. I don't think this tries to hold onto that at all - feels like he moved on from that vision and started to play very actively with different conceptions of noise and melody across a load of autonomous moving parts

Real

Album Rating: 4.5

“ yeah, i can fw this for sure but it's got a bit of that R Plus Seven sterilised lab rat quality to it”



that’s why it’s so good!!

Album Rating: 3.8

Yea I should prob revisit Ravedeath. I think you’re right that this one has that like theme park horror ride thing. Or like obstacle course of death

Album Rating: 3.7

Virginal II into Black Refraction is exactly what I was hoping the rest of this would be mmhm

Album Rating: 4.5

afsgadsjga this is insane. I think this has ravedeath beat pretty hard

Album Rating: 4.5

arg this is enchanting



was this a bad place to start with hecker after ultraviolet? i have gone off rym rating averages because am, basic. time is a thing and will tell i suppose.

Album Rating: 3.7

this is a pretty distinctive piece in his discography, whereas ultraviolet is a perfect (somewhat underwhelming given the parts involved) average of his whole schtick, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing

check Radio Amor if you want more back-to-basics granular hecker done just right or Konoyo if you want to go off the deep end from this one

Album Rating: 4.5

ta for the roadmap



i might go for a chronological run to remove the element of chance/choice and see how it unfurls

Album Rating: 4.5

I still gotta hear the 2 newest albums but u cannot go wrong with the Heck man.

Album Rating: 4.5

Heck man Heck do be good.



Virginal I is so good gosh

Hecker is one of the most 4/5 artists I know. I love pretty much everything I’ve heard by him but I haven’t been able to go above that for any of them. I’m getting into An Imaginary Country currently, this will be next after that. I’ve been saving it so this better be the one to fully blow my mind.

Album Rating: 4.5

ive gone from 'well this is rather nice' to half holding back tears in like 2 listens jfc Live Room and Virginal II are getting to me, 4 to 4.5 in 45 minutes

Album Rating: 4.5

Ravedeath is my fav but this is probs second. Like I said, can't go wrong.

Album Rating: 3.7

Ravedeath bookends and chunks of Konoyo are the closest I've come to a Hecker 4.5, but still not quite there - very whelming artist, can't begrudge him the acclaim or disproportionate amount of exposure he gets because he's a legitimately good gateway, but idk if he'll ever sit at the top of any my pyramids

Virginal II is kinda peak though, defs my fav on this

Album Rating: 4.5

Anything electroacoustic, messy and emotive seems to have it’s hooks in me these days. There’s something organic here. Maybe I’m too green around the ears for the genre to appraise this with any sense of context/grounding but this made me feel something.

Yeah, I find my tastes in ambient/drone are leaning toward the more minimal and drawn out, but Hecker is amazing at his denser and very carefully crafted sound but it does have kind of a ceiling for me.