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Love Streams (album)

Love Streams
Love Streams (Front Cover).png
Studio album by Tim Hecker
Released April 8, 2016
Recorded 2014–2015
Studio Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík, Iceland
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Length 42:49
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Tim Hecker chronology
Virgins
(2013)Virgins2013
Love Streams
(2016)
Singles from Love Streams
  1. "Castrati Stack"
    Released: February 19, 2016
  2. "Black Phase"
    Released: March 30, 2016

Love Streams is the eighth studio album by Canadian electronic music musician Tim Hecker, released on April 8, 2016 on 4AD and Paper Bag Records. The album was recorded throughout 2014 and 2015 at Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavík, Iceland, where parts of Hecker's last two albums Virgins (2013) and Ravedeath, 1972 (2011) were recorded.

The album features Kara-Lis Coverdale and Grímur Helgason, who were both collaborators on Hecker's last album Virgins, as well as contributions from the Icelandic Choir Ensemble, whose vocal arrangements were scored by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. Hecker professed to having thought about ideas like “liturgical aesthetics after Yeezus” and the “transcendental voice in the age of auto-tune” during its creation.

Love Streams has received very positive reviews from critics. On the aggregate score site Metacritic, the album scored at 83/100.Pitchfork gave the album a score of 8.2/10, writing that "Love Streams marks a subtle shift in Tim Hecker's habitual style, a pivot away from his hazy trademark." PopMatters gave the album nine stars out of ten, stating that "Love Streams is at once familiar and totally alien; a work of art that reminds us why we need art in the first place."

All tracks written by Tim Hecker.


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