Harmony in Ultraviolet

Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
2006 Ratings: #5 / 732
User Score
Based on 693 ratings
2006 Rank: #23
Liked by 123 people
October 16, 2006 / Release Date
LP / Format
Kranky / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
Sputnikmusic
This is an album that has all the recognizable traits of an electronic album “removed from the human”--laptop-birthed fuzz and drone, a lack of vocals, a masked sense of melody--but is also movingly human.
87
Pitchfork
Latest from the electronic producer refines the sounds of his previous records, creating what is, paradoxically, Hecker's most dramatic and most oceanic album.
80
Tiny Mix Tapes
Like the most epic of Van Halen guitar solos, these songs speak a fascinating harmonic language that gives us reason to listen long after our minds have been blown.
80
PopMatters

As such, Harmony is very likely Hecker’s finest work to date, an album that pulls unlikely beauty out of jarring noise and warbled instrumentation, and that may in fact possess the capacity to interest listeners who had previously bypassed noise as experimental curiosity.

80
AllMusic
Wet bass notes and emaciated electric guitars, awash with distortion, crush together with programmed noise and drones, sounds erupt and are then dismissed, fifty minutes of questions and intimations, of resignation and acceptance, but not -- definitely not -- of answers. We'll have to find those ourselves.
BradTasteMusic
98

It’s alright

UltimateLifeFrm
100

This was an experience! The more I revisit it, the better it gets; it's now a top 10 favourite album for me.

How do I begin to describe the trip I just went through with this album? I think this would be the best few words:

Haunting, noisy, devastating and just filled with no hope for anything.

You ever get the feeling where all colour and life just slowly fades away around you as rain pours down like a cloud that only you can see and feel looming over your head, which can result in you to ... read more

BuffaloStaple
90

what a guy

Iriz
78

As interesting of an experience as this was, i dont enjoy a whole much from this album, even if it sounds good. Its pretty well sequenced and all the tracks go into each other very well. But the noise tracks, the overly-glithchy sounds, not my cup of tea. Has some very nice tracks, but i don't care too much about it, unfortunately.

Wyatt
96

sonic bliss

EasyBakeCoven
92

So dense, yet so aloof.

Perfectly captures what goes through my head when I’m awake at 3 in the morning.

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