Love Streams

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2016 album from Canadian composter Tim Hecker. Love Streams takes it's cues from the avant-classical orchestration and extreme electronic processing of his previous full-length, 2013's Virgins, but shaped into more melancholic, ultraviolet hues. Inspired by notions of 15th century choral scores (particularly those by Josquin des Prez), transposed to an artificial intelligence-era language of digital resonance and bright synths, the album was assembled gradually, with layers of studio-tracked keyboards, choir and woodwinds being woven into the mix, then molded and disfigured through complex programming. Like hearing some ancient strain of sacred music corrupted by encryption, Hecker admits to thinking about ideas like liturgical aesthestics after Yeezus and the transcendental voice in the age of auto-tune, during it's creation.