Instrumental Tourist' is one of the year's most anticipated electronic music albums. The meeting of established artist Tim Hecker and studio magician Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never at his Software Studio yields an otherworldly and near symphonic suite apparently conducted "...to mimic the tropes and techniques of jazz-based improvisation, with little preparation prior", effecting a wide-eyed and fascinating sound as dramatic and enchanting as any we've heard this year. As you'd expect from a Tim Hecker record, the sense of diffuse, layered, analog-treated and digitally simulated space is just incredible, and paired with both his and Lopatin's feel for cinematic, heart-rending melody and complex harmonics 'Instrumental Tourist' is an impressive piece of work by any standards.A1 Uptown Psychedelia A2 Scene From A French Zoo A3 Vaccination (For Thomas Mann) B1 Intrusions B2 Whole Earth Tascam B3 GRM Blue I B4 GRM Blue II C1 Racist Drone C2 Grey Geisha D1 Instrumental Tourist D2 Ritual For Consumption D3 Vaccination No.2
