TIM HECKER - Konoyo 2LP quick order "Cruel Friend" combines excellent riffage

"Cruel Friend" combines excellent riffage with near-Hawkwind levels of linear soarage and soak from the synths

Sarah Davachi has quickly risen in prominence since her first release five years ago

being full of blues and bar songs delivered with a lusty eye and the smoke of whisky

fuck and play some goddamn rock and roll

Florian Tatar (bass) along with Masami Akita (analog synths

TIM HECKER - Konoyo 2LP quick order "Cruel Friend" combines excellent riffageMaster sonic architect Tim Hecker returns to Kranky with an album which takes inspiration from conversations with a recently departed buddy. 'Konoyo' was mostly recorded in a Japanese temple just outside Tokyo in collaboration with gagaku ensemble Tokyo Gakuso. Hecker manipulates their source sounds (strings, woodwinds, percussion) and re shapes and sculpts the raw material into his own vision, focussing on negative space. The resulting sombre mood