Album Review #1: Tim Hecker - "Radio Amor"

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:22:30 +0000

I can’t put this album down.

Brian Eno, a pioneer of ambient music, said the genre “must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” While that applies to Radio Amor, you’d be doing yourself a disservice by treating it as background noise. Tim Hecker managed to create an ambient album that conveys a certain mental image while still leaving its mood up to interpretation. That image is, of course, shrimping in the Caribbean. Specifically a fisherman named Jimmy who Hecker met in Honduras in the ’90s, who is presumably the titular “highwire shrimper” of the first and second tracks and the figure on the cover. You wouldn’t exactly expect that from an ambient album, now would you?

~draft730’s music blog

Album Review #1: Tim Hecker - "Radio Amor"