in the air iii is the best ambient track of all time imo

Album Rating: 4.2

Nah, suite as a whole is probably Hecker's finest moment but each part draws too much on each other to command that kinda platform as a standalone

Album Rating: 5.0

Agreed, and even the suite feels very consciously like the culmination of what's come before it. Maybe III can take the title for the sort who listens to showtunes outside the show, but I'd far sooner point to the far less context-enriched highlights of Stars of the Lid, Brian Eno, Steve Roach etc

Album Rating: 5.0

Hell even within Hecker's discog i gotta bring up The Work of Art in the Age of Cultural Overproduction, Dungeoneering, Where Shadows Make Shadows... plenty of standalone greats

Album Rating: 4.2

Yep, Reflections in Suspension and 1/2 immediately came to mind as solid-but-safe placeholders for that title. The online hivemind would probably have Even If You're Never Awake and Stone in Focus up there, but I smell too many algorithms behind those vibes

For a Hecker entrant, ig you've gotta take one of the twinkles (Transmitting/Borderlands) or go hard on a Konoyo/Radio Amor long boi. This and Virgins both have highlights that lean on sequencing (even if in very different ways) and Haunt Me is a tad too diffuse (though Work of Art is a fair shout)

Album Rating: 4.2

Idk though, Hecker does have standalone goodness but mostly seems like an emphatically album-artist to me - find it more engaging to hear how many different ways he can refract a single palette than to sink into any given instance if that figures

Album Rating: 5.0

Makes sense, I basically always listen to his albums front to back so I can't really argue his case as a secret singles artist, but like ur saying solid bench of tracks with some character that's individually gratifying in some way "beyond" (lol) being The Climax Of An Album

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