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9.0
111292
9.0 |
The 405
Explores a subtler, more pensive, and ultimately brilliant, side of his Japanese explorations with Anoyo
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8.5
111284
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Remains a master of his craft
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8.0
111241
8.0 |
Exclaim
On Anoyo, Tim Hecker stretches out his heady winning streak for another 32 striking and captivating minutes
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8.0
111242
8.0 |
The Skinny
Follows up his Konoyo album with Anoyo, a further collection of beautiful sounds inspired by the Japanese sound of gagaku
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8.0
111325
8.0 |
PopMatters
With his second record featuring a gagaku ensemble, famed experimental artist Tim Hecker produces a very different facade that shines through a beautifully minimal perspective
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7.8
111264
7.8 |
Pitchfork
The follow-up to last year’s Konoyo—recorded, like its predecessor, with a Japanese gagaku ensemble—functions as a counterbalance to that album: a kind of photo negative, more subdued but no less overwhelming
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7.6
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7.6 |
Resident Advisor
The uchimono drum, the hichiriki and ryuteki flutes, and the 17-piped mouth organ called the sho are not often heard outside Japan, the music having only been opened up to the public in the past century. But while Konoyo used these singular sounds like a chisel, Anoyo paints with wide brushstrokes
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7.5
112007
7.5 |
Under The Radar
Guides us through a meditative journey into the darkly textured, sparse orchestral soundscapes
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7.0
111243
7.0 |
All Music
Compared to the astonishing Konoyo, Anoyo does feel a bit like less focused variations on the same ideas, but as it stands, it's still an intriguing, otherworldly blend of ancient instrumentation and technological exploration
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7.0
111244
7.0 |
musicOMH
The combination of sounds is still captivating, especially recommended for anyone who feels to this day that new age music was underrated
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7.0
111245
7.0 |
Uncut
Despite occasional hints of tastefully anodyne sonic wallpaper, most of these painstaking musical haikus have a quietly potent and gently mesmerising beauty. Print edition only
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6.0
111246
6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Hecker’s drones have never sounded less artificial, and the gagaku ensemble’s responses to them gives the entire piece a real sense of cosmic scale
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6.0
111311
6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Lacks the transcendent quality that has marked Hecker’s formidable discography
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