ARRIVING VIA KRANKY 7TH APRIL
EUROPEAN LIVE DATES ALSO ANNOUNCED
LISTEN TO “LOTUS LIGHT“
The latest by Canadian composer Tim Hecker serves as a beacon of unease against the deluge of false positive capitalist ambient currently in vogue. Whether taken as warning or promise, No Highs delivers – this is music of austerity and ambiguity, purgatorial and seasick. A jagged anti-relaxant for our medicated age, rough-hewn and undefined.
Morse code pulse programming flickers like distress signals while a gathering storm of strings, noise, and low-end looms in the distance. Processed electronics shiver and shudder against pitch-shifting assemblages of crackling voltage, mantric horns (including exquisite modal sax by Colin Stetson), and cathedral keys. Throughout, the pieces both accrue and avoid drama, more attuned to undertow than crescendo. Hecker mentions “negation” as a muse of sorts – the sense of tumult without bombast, tethered ecstasies, an escape from escapism. His is an antagonism both brusque and beguiling, devoid of resolution, beckoning the listener ever deeper into its greyscale alchemies of magisterial disquiet.
No Highs track list:
1. Monotony
2. Glissalia
3. Total Garbage
4. Lotus Light
5. Winter Cop
6. In your Mind
7. Monotony II
8. Pulse Depression
9. Anxiety
10. Sense Suppression
11. Living Spa Water
EUROPEAN LIVE DATES:
08/04: Brussels, BE – BRDCST @ AB Theatre tickets
09/04: The Hague, NL – Rewire @ Amare tickets
14/04: Prague, CZ – MeetFactory tickets
15/04: Oslo, NO – Parkteatret tickets
16/04: Bergen, NO – Landmark tickets
18/04: Berlin, DE – Volksbühne
19/04: Athens, GR – Java tickets
20/04: Lisbon, PT – Culturgest tickets
21/04: Braga, PT – gnration tickets
22/04: Barcelona, ES – Razzmatazz PRE-HUMAN tickets
24/04: Udine, IT – Cas*Aupa x Far East Film Festival
27/04: London, UK – Fabric tickets
28/04: Budapest, HU – House of Music