After a year that saw, heard and, uh, smelled Tim Hecker working on a variety of projects like the score to The Free World and his perfume-oriented project “Ephemera,” the Canadian electronic musician has revealed plans for a follow-up record to 2013’s Virgins. The new album is called Love Streams, and it will arrive on April 8 through 4AD.
Love Streams was recorded over the past two years in Reykjavik, Iceland, and hears Hecker accompanied by Kara-Lis Coverdale and Grímur Helagson, who appeared on Virgins. He also enlisted the voices of the Icelandic Choir Ensemble, as well as Oscar-nominated composer Jóhann Jóhannson to score the vocal arrangements.
Content-wise, Hecker claims the new material is a result of reflecting on the state of music in…
…the age of auto-tune and exploring “liturgical aesthetics after Yeezus.”