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- Mar 12, 2025Each of Shards‘ seven tracks is a subtler, more delicate meditation on the world and our place in it. It’s a welcome reminder that Hecker’s music is not and has never been dependent on gimmicks to be deadly effective.
- Mar 3, 2025Whilst each of these tracks was created to serve pre-existing imagery, the beauty of presenting Hecker’s compositions in this way allows the listener to create their own interpretations and visualisations. Shards is far more cohesive and affecting than its formation suggests it should be.
- Mar 3, 2025Even at a lithe 31 minutes, it serves as Hecker’s most diverse work, an unfixed landscape that moves from shadowy to frigid to transcendent with ease. The song titles and album notes leave no real clues as to which films each track was actually intended for.
- Mar 3, 2025A bit more low-key than Hecker's other albums, Shards is nevertheless representative of his signature sound, encapsulating the emotional depth and innovative sonic weaving listeners have come to associate with his work.
- UncutMar 3, 2025It's a good snapshot of how Hecker approaches such [soundtrack] commissions. But it also suggests there's an occasional paucity of ideas here. [Apr 2025, p.31]
