Radio Amor
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| Released | March 25, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2001–2002 in Montreal and Halifax, Nova Scotia[1] | |||
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| Length | 58:22 | |||
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Radio Amor is the second studio album by Canadian electronic music musician Tim Hecker, released on March 25, 2003 through Mille Plateaux.
Release and recording
[edit]Radio Amor was recorded from 2001–2002 in Montreal and Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1] The album was inspired by Jimmy, a fisherman and shrimper that Hecker met during a visit to Honduras in the mid-1990s.[2][3][4] In an article from The Wire, Hecker said that "I was totally obsessed with the idea of fishermen in the Caribbean".[5]
The album was released on March 25, 2003 through Mille Plateaux, and re-released on January 23, 2007 through Alien8 Recordings.[4][3] The album, along with Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again were remastered by Matt Colton and re-released on July 6, 2018 via Kranky. The remaster was available through vinyl and CD.[6][7]
Reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [8] |
| Pitchfork | 8.3/10[9] |
| Stylus Magazine | A−[10] |
| Tiny Mix Tapes |   [2] |
The album was received well by critics, with Pitchfork writer Mark Richardson describing it as "Hecker's coldest and most piercing work, without the billowy blissed-out sections he usually manages to work in somewhere".[9] Michael Heumann writing for Stylus Magazine describes the album's texture as "not simply noise; this is music, created and shaped and pruned and dissected into something almost operatic in scope".[10] In a Dusted review by Emerson Dameron, they said that "Radio Amor doesn't compare to anything else currently on the market. Hecker's flickering spirals may, at times, loosely echo the more reflective side of Oval, but take a more direct route to the cortex."[11]
In January 2004, The Wire put the album in its list of the best electronica albums of 2003.[12]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks are written by Tim Hecker.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Song of the Highwire Shrimper" | 7:24 |
| 2. | "(They Call Me) Jimmy" | 4:52 |
| 3. | "Spectral" | 8:09 |
| 4. | "I'm Transmitting Tonight" | 5:16 |
| 5. | "7000 Miles" | 5:43 |
| 6. | "Shipyards of La Ceiba" | 1:56 |
| 7. | "Careless Whispers" | 5:11 |
| 8. | "The Star Compass" | 4:49 |
| 9. | "Azure Azure" | 10:34 |
| 10. | "Trade Winds, White Heat" | 4:22 |
| Total length: | 58:22 | |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hecker, Tim (March 25, 2003). Radio Amor (Liner notes). Mille Plateaux.
- ^ a b Amneziak (n.d.). "Tim Hecker - Radio Amor". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved June 26, 2025.
- ^ a b Terich, Jeff (March 15, 2007). "Tim Hecker : Radio Amor". Treblezine. Retrieved July 5, 2025.
- ^ a b "Tim Hecker: Radio Amor". Alien8. January 23, 2007. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008.
- ^ Boon, Marcus (November 2003). "Tim Hecker". The Wire. No. 237. p. 16. ISSN 0952-0680. The Wire Magazine 2003-11 at the Internet Archive.
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: ignored ISSN errors (link) - ^ Blais-Billie, Braudle (May 22, 2018). "Tim Hecker to Reissue First 2 Albums". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 26, 2025.
- ^ McDermott, Matt (May 23, 2018). "Kranky to reissue Tim Hecker's first two albums, Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again & Radio Amor". Resident Advisor. Retrieved July 5, 2025.
- ^ Birchmeier, Jason. "Radio Amor - Tim Hecker". AllMusic.
- ^ a b Richardson, Mark (February 16, 2007). "Radio Amor". Pitchfork.
- ^ a b Heumann, Michael (December 16, 2003). "Tim Hecker - Radio Amor". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on December 15, 2006.
- ^ Dameron, Emerson (June 11, 2003). "Tim Hecker - Radio Amor". Dusted. Archived from the original on August 3, 2003.
- ^ "2003 Rewind". The Wire. No. 239. January 2004. p. 45. ISSN 0952-0680. The Wire Magazine 2004-01 at the Internet Archive.
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