Tim Hecker's Quest For Autonomy

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The ressonance of low frequencies is the first priority for AVOIDANT; they draw from the influential “Earth 2”, or Tim Hecker's performances, engulfed in mist, without wanting or being able to be one or the other. But there's a relentless search for intimacy, through the sleepwalking textures he proposes. “AVDN”, AVOIDANT's third full-length, asks you for maximum volume, for headphones, the graveyard shift, absolute silence. This time around, there's moments when the guitars sound like guitars, when the field recordings are raw unprocessed layers, and also dense bottom end that fills the listeners body. It takes off from where “Birth In Carpathia” (Enough Records, 2011) ended, anti-climatic. Besides the isolationist ptemisse of Thomas Köner,

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