This sounds likely to be as cool as it gets (in case you were wondering how cool things get).
Taking inspiration from Italian partigiani and the counter-attack of the anti-Vichyists, Hecker has issued a salvo against all tourists of melancholy, from trustafarian pseudo-leftists to the Ikea nihilists of the boboist rive droite. While some artists seem eager to explore new-age or “organic” solutions to electronic music, Hecker solves the Rubik’s cube and penetrates the liquid magma, revealing the truths of dirty sodium light pollution, love on the rocks, and toothhunting in the garden of evil. With its motifs of eroticism and torture, militancy, and ecstatic pain, Mirages also points backwards towards the Viking penchant for fighting and feasting. Don’t be mistaken though by insufficient musical descriptors – this is also a work of unsheathed tenderness.
We hope you find, as we do, Mirages further erodes the vapid predispositions of electronic music, uncovering a terrain where dissonance and melody coincide in a near-bohemian unison. Hecker has certainly developed a unique approach to music in an increasingly overcrowded and generic field. This is a challenging work which reconciles a highly experimental approach to songcraft that is at once beautiful and unnerving. As Mr. Hecker explains: “Mirages is the sound of the ruby-horned deer sharing sweet lies in the night.”
Excellent prose! Of course, if pressed, you could probably edit it down to ‘creepy’. I’ve already got Haunt me, haunt me, do it again - now I’ve given in and ordered the rest of ‘em. And maybe it’s some strange bureaucratic oversight, but none of them are listed here. Odd, but just as well, as there’s no shopping cart.