Tim Hecker streams new album, Virgins
07 October 2013, 13:15
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Luke Morgan Britton
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Canadian experimental musician, Tim Hecker has revealed his upcoming seventh full-length release, airing it online in full a week prior to its release.
Following on from 2011′s Ravedeath, 1972, the new effort – entitled Virgins - will drop on 14 October via Kranky. A press release says it was “recorded during three periods in 2012, mostly in Reykjavik, Montreal and Seattle, using ensembles in live performance”.
Listen now, via NPR.
Check out the record’s tracklist below and artwork above.
1. Prism 2. Virginal I 3. Radiance 4. Live Room 5. Live Room Out 6. Virginal II 7. Black Refraction 8. Incense at Abu Ghraib 9. Amps, Drugs, Harmonium 10. Stigmata I 11. Stigmata II 12. Stab Variation
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