Track Listing

1. Music For Tundra
2. Unlisted
3. Unlisted
4. Arctic Lover's Rock
5. Unlisted
6. The Work Of Art In The Age Of Cultural Over Production
7. October
8. Unlisted
9. Ghost Writing
10. Unlisted
11. City In Flames (In 3 Parts)
12. Unlisted
13. Unlisted
14. Borderlines
15. Unlisted
16. Boreal Kiss
17. Unlisted
18. Unlisted
19. Night Flight To Your Heart
20. Unlisted

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #150975 in Music
• Released on: 2004-01-01
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Seventeen tracks that blend seamlessly into one another, making them perfect for headphone listening or as background music. At times glitch-based minimalism, but also captures the drama of post rock. An ambient noise classic!

Customer Reviews

brooding, slightly menacing and still very relaxing
The background wall of sound here, pulsing and a bit fuzzy, sets the tone for intermittent beeps, piano tinkles and guitar samples. I love the feeling of rising and falling, of being lofted along wherever Tim Hecker wants to take me.

Eminently Listenable
Many potential buyers of this album might be familiar with contemporary composition. Those in that category should purchase immediately without reserve. For the many more who might be hesitant but curious, you should give this a listen. Like the Brockett Hudson, Hecker captures the feeling of 21st century life through stripped down but powerful instrumentation thoughtfully drawn from a strong minimalist framework. It may sound bizarre, but it is somehow beautiful. As a convert from the latter category, I can say with confidence that you will not be disappointed.

Magnificent
Much to the chagrin of the reviewer below me, I'm going to refer to Tim Hecker's ambient leanings (he has several house albums out under the name "Jetone") as "ambient glitch." Though I feel genre classifications are typically restrictive and under-descriptive (or even misleading in their descriptions), Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It clearly and successfully fuses droning melody and cathedral-like ambience with elements of electronic glitch, creating a hybrid quite unlike either ambient or glitch.

Tim Hecker soothes the listener through choice, dark tonal pallettes, but jars him or her through seemingly random interjections of electronic interferece -- Certain passages lend themselves more to one or the other. The result is heightened tension through the latter, but a more welcoming sense of harmony through contrast in the former. That Tim Hecker is a graduate student in psychoacoustics is very apparent, and lends itself to his unique style of ambient. Highly recommended.

Be sure to check out Radio Amor, a much brighter offering, as well as his new record, Mirages, which presents much more white noise in place of droning than his other discs.