{"product_id":"tim-hecker-virgins-2lp","title":"Tim Hecker - Virgins [2LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2 x LP\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: KRANK183LP \u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 0796441818310\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 25 Sep 2026\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Ambient\/Drone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4\/5 REVIEW IN MOJO: “HEARTBEAT TONES DISSOLVE INTO BEAUTEOUS SHIMMER AND STELLAR SYNTH MEDITATIONS GIVE WAY TO CAREFULLY ORCHESTRATED ELECTRONICA.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4\/5 REVIEW IN UNCUT: “IT'S MASTERFUL, THOUGH IT WILL LEAVE YOU FEELING LIKE A SPECK OF GRAVEL IN A SELF-DESTRUCTING WORLD.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNME - 8\/10 review (w\/c 14 October) \"He’s mastered this stylistic skittishness and you’ll do well to find much dispute about his talent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNARC - 5\/5 review (October issue) \"An immersive soundtrack to your own personal psychodrama.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWIRE - ONE PAGE REVIEW (October issue) \"The sentiments it stirs to life are shadowed and ambiguous, simultaneously personal and impersonal. It is also fantastically immersive, dragging the listener into its turbulent undertows, then washing them back on dry land, intact but changed.’’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVirgins was recorded during three periods in 2012, mostly in Reykjavik, Montreal and Seattle, using ensembles in live performance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile this album remains committed to a painterly form of musical abstraction, it is also a record of restrained composition recorded live primarily in intimate studio rooms. This record employs woodwinds, piano and synthesizers towards an effort at doing what digital music does not do naturally—making music that is out of time, out of tune and out of phase. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces go off the rails before forming into anything, others eschew crescendo \u003cbr\u003ecompositional structures or bombastic density while going sideways instead. It points to the ongoing development of Hecker's work. It suggests illusory memories of drug- hazed jams or communal music performance that may have never been performed or been heard.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is an offering of music into the void, a gift of digital filler between distractions. Yet hopefully it also stands as a document of the enduring faith in the narcotic, enigmatic function of music as long-form expression. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMixed by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Tim Hecker. Additional assistance by Randall Dunn and Ben Frost. Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studios in London, UK. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etrack listing: 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  1. Stigmata II  12. Stab Variation\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kranky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47504616652956,"sku":"KRANK183LP","price":41.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/KRANK183LP.jpg?v=1788291410","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/tim-hecker-virgins-2lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}