Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country

Have been a Hecker fan since the beginning, but this album never grabbed me as much as some of the others. Sort of flew under the radar. I just played it and was really impressed, and wondered how I had slept on it as I had. Then I realized- I had just listened to the whole thing at 33rpm instead of 45rpm. Well- I recommend trying it out! Because it sounds great slowed down.

Bought my copy second hand in EX condition, sounds warm and rich, dead quiet, absolutely perfect...

Vinyl quality is beyond garbage of mine. Pops and clicks throughout, you'd think this album was 45 years old and scrapped up against the concrete how bad my version sounds, which is a shame because this album is great. Right out of the sleeve day one sounded terrible. It's a shame the record store I bought this from is a few states over as had I listened to it there I certainly would have demanded a refund.

Sober and deliberate, Hecker's expansive, diffusive textures achieve a gorgeously dense "wall of sound" effect that devotees of Klaus Schulze will appreciate.

Hecker's drones produce a sense of perpetual harmonic instability within a musical environment that is both gargantuan and weightless. Highly evocative and impressive in its depth; a funeral pyre for an ancient sound.

Followers of Marsen Jules, William Basinski and Robert Henke take note.