Mirages (album)

Mirages
Studio album by Tim Hecker
Released	September 21, 2004
Recorded	November 2002 – March 2004
Genre	Ambient glitch
Length	47:41
Label	Alien8
Tim Hecker chronology
Radio Amor (2004) Mirages (2004) Mort Aux Vaches (2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
AlmostCool.org	link
Pitchfork	7.9/10[1]
Stylus	(B-) 10/5/2004

Mirages is the third studio album by Canadian electronic music musician Tim Hecker, released on September 21, 2004 on Alien8 Recordings. It is described on the Alien8 website as “an ambient-death-metal classic in waiting.” The album is composed primarily of heavily distorted and processed guitar. Relatively free of beats, this album moves rhythmically along in a glitch fashion, acquiring rhythm through pulsating or droning bass and some sounds resembling digital malfunction. In addition to sharing similar moods and tones, the tracks bleed into each other, making this a nearly seamless composition. The distortion guitar and feedback elements with delicate underlying melodies may call to mind the textural rock compositions of shoegaze.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Tim Hecker. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Acéphale"	4:57
2.	"Neither More Nor Less"	3:10
3.	"Aerial Silver"	3:37
4.	"Celestina"	4:31
5.	"Counter Attack"	2:13
6.	"The Truth of Accountants"	2:21
7.	"Aerial Light-Pollution Orange"	3:09
8.	"Non Mollare"	1:10
9.	"Kaito"	3:08
10.	"Balkanize-You"	8:37
11.	"Incurably Optimistic!"	10:40
Total length:		47:41

Production notes

• Recorded in Montreal and Ottawa
• November 2002 – March 2004
• Le Fly Pan Am + Christof Migone play on track 3
• Oren Ambarchi plays guitar on track 9
• David Bryant plays guitar on track 11
• "Kaito" samples the recording of the number station "Magnetic Fields" off the Conet project, which contains a recording by Jean Michel Jarre

References

1. 10/11/2004 Pitchfork Review

External links

• Alien8 Recordings information page for Mirages