Mirages (Tim Hecker album)

Mirages
Studio album by Tim Hecker
Released	September 21, 2004
Recorded	November 2002 and March 2004 in Montréal and Ottawa
Genre	Ambient glitch
Length	47:41
Label	Alien8
Tim Hecker chronology
Radio Amor (2004) Mirages (2004) Mort Aux Vaches (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
AlmostCool.org	link
Pitchfork	7.9/10
Stylus	(B-) 10/5/2004

Mirages is the third studio album by Canadian electronic music musician Tim Hecker, released on September 21, 2004 on Alien8 Recordings. It is described on the Alien8 website as "an ambient-death-metal classic in waiting." The album is composed primarily of heavily distorted and processed guitar.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tim Hecker

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Acéphale"	4:57
2.	"Neither More Nor Less"	3:10
3.	"Aerial Silver"	3:37
4.	"Celestina"	4:31
5.	"Counter Attack"	2:13
6.	"The Truth of Accountants"	2:21
7.	"Aerial Light-Pollution Orange"	3:09
8.	"Non Mollare"	1:10
9.	"Kaito"	3:08
10.	"Balkanize-You"	8:37
11.	"Incurably Optimistic!"	10:40
Total length:		47:41

Production notes

• Recorded in Montreal and Ottawa
• November 2002 – March 2004
• Le Fly Pan Am + Christof Migone play on track 3
• Oren Ambarchi plays guitar on track 9
• David Bryant plays guitar on track 11
• "Kaito" samples the recording of the number station "Magnetic Fields" off the Conet project, which contains a recording by Jean Michel Jarre

External links

• Alien8 Recordings information page for Mirages