An Imaginary Country (studio album) by Tim Hecker

An Imaginary Country by Tim Hecker
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-03-09
Overall rank: 19,872nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 26 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2009 (375th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (3,653rd)
Award Best albums of all time (19,872nd)
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Tim Hecker bestography

An Imaginary Country is ranked 11th best out of 19 albums by Tim Hecker on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tim Hecker is Ravedeath, 1972 which is ranked number 1228 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,422.

Tim Hecker album bestography « Higher ranked (19,476th) This album (19,872nd) Lower ranked (35,865th) »
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72/100 (from 26 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.9/100, a mean average of 71.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.

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From 01/05/2014 04:27
An Imaginary Country holds some of Hecker's most dense and climatic emotional pieces. Tracks like Borderlands, 200 Years Ago, and Where Shadows Make Shadows are some of his best recordings.
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From 06/20/2012 22:17
For me, there is little by way of emotional engagement here to sustain any proplonged interest in the material, much of which hardly ever varies. It's the droning and repetitive nature of the music and its allusions to romanticism, that renders it a meandering and monotonous experience.
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