Tim Hecker - No HighsThe latest by Canadian composer Tim Hecker serves as a beacon of unease against the deluge of false positive corporate 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

"He'd risen back up from all that had laid him down

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blazing guitar playing

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Her songwriting prowess is also flexed on tracks like Calvin Harris' "One Kiss" with Dua Lipa and "Promises" with Sam Smith

in the second album of the series

The tracks progressively map out a collective narrative of threat and survival in a strange and uncertain world

Overflowing with 19 songs

The Octet is however almost half as long again as the Septet

First released on Vertigo in 1975

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